Till Death Do Us Part and Other Bedtime Stories That Have Found An Early Grave

Relationships, those without them want them. Those with them gripe about them. Those who have lost them mourn. We struggle to save them, end them, find them and repair them. Relationships, in the example I am making today, romantic ones, are one of the trickiest things you will experience in life. They will bring you the most joy and the most pain. You can go from elated to heartbroken and then back again. On this up and down cycle I now wonder is there ever a happy medium or is this this partnership we crave in life just one big roller coaster that we are destined to ride over and over and over again? Is love just a series of rotating partners and ups and downs or is there a happy ever after?
Relationships seem to have a certain cycle to them. You meet, you hook up, you date, you relate, and eventually you begin to deteriorate. Then you fight and the inevitable happens and you break up. Sure there are the stories of the couples who have been together for fifty years or more but the stories are becoming more scarce. It seems that love is becoming more of a thing to "rent" and when our lease is up you move on. What happened to the "happily ever after" that our parents and grandparents knew? Have we as a society thrown that away? We rotate partners faster than we change shoes and it seems as if our hearts never heal they are just covered by a hypothetical band aid. More than just "renting" love has love become a disposable item?
Think back to your relationships, especially if you are young. Now maybe this is a moot point if you are very young or maybe it just depends who you are talking to. It seems we are told you have to be a "reasonable" age to fall in love. Well, what age would that be, it still does nothing for the argument that love is disposable. Everyone seems to believe that the person they are with at the time is the "one" well maybe they are. Maybe, just maybe that is the "one" for that time, until that love runs out and they move to another one. Maybe the one great love of your life does not exist anymore and the concept of love has been broken up into "mini loves" that encompass all the different relationships we have through out our lives. Maybe we have to stop searching for the "one" and love the one we're with because that is our love, for now.
I think the concept of love and relationships has changed drastically due to changes in our society. With divorce and remarriages it makes the concept of having one true love a bit more difficult than it was in the past. People seem to grow tired of each other due to the fact that we have so much more at our disposal now. With technology and schooling and job changes and everything else that goes on it would be hard to stay with one person forever. That why I believe that love can encompass more than one person in your life. So I'm starting to believe that happily ever after and till death do us part may not be correct phrases anymore. People may find it difficult to adjust to this although I think the world already has. As for me, I don't know where I'm headed as my eyes have just been opened to this. I may find love again and again and again, for society has molded me even though I didn't want it to. Love is hard enough, maybe accepting this makes it easier, I guess I will have to wait and see.