We want a Facebook official relationship every one can like and comment on.
We want that Instagram #relationshipgoals post.
We want a Taco Tuesday partner, someone to text us good morning on Wednesday.
We want a 1 for all the weddings we keep getting invited to.
“How did they do it?
How did they find their happily ever after?”
But we are the generation who doesn’t want a relationship.
We swipe right in hopes of finding the right person.
We want the facade of a relationship, but we don’t want the work of one.
We hang out, happy hour, go to coffee, and grab a beer - anything to avoid an actual date.
We don’t want relationships – we want “friends with benefits”.
We want all the rewards and none of the risk.
All of the payout and none of the cost.
We want to connect – enough, but not too much. We want to commit – a little, but not a lot.
Anything that will give us the illusion of a relationship, without being in an actual relationship.
We want a placeholder, not a person.
We want a warm body, not a partner.
We sit around with friends discussing the rules, but no one even knows the game we’re trying to play.
… Because the problem with our generation not wanting relationships is that, at the end of the day, we actually do.
Do you think we’re the generation who doesn’t want relationships?
What do you think we’re really looking for?