Romantic relationships are getting better

Few_Chain2060 · 2026-04-09T16:53:44+00:00

I don't know about that, but relationships are becoming more and more a privilege and not the norm, and people in happy marriages are now feeling that.

Local-Willingness784 · 2026-04-09T16:11:52+00:00

why would this be a dunk on red or blackpillers if relationships in general are on the low? wouldnt they say only chads are in relationships now and prove themselves right? "women dont go for subhumans anymore and they are happier" or something like that?

pack_merrr · 2026-04-09T15:31:08+00:00

I'm not sure if you're just pulling these statistics out of your ass, or if it's just some sort of statistically insignificant survey you're blindly repeating. I can give you the benefit of the doubt and assume it's the latter, but either way I'm pretty skeptical this means anything at all.

That's one thing, it's another thing entirely to then go and give all these conclusions that you're drawing from this "data" and act like that means anything. Crazy work bro

Flightlessbirbz · 2026-04-09T21:50:13+00:00

It makes a lot of sense to me that the less pressure people feel to marry and get into relationships, the better those will be. So I believe it’s very, very possible. The only thing I’d question here is the fact that most millennials haven’t been married as long as most gen x. Marriages rarely get better over time, either they’re going to stay the same or get worse.

caption291 · 2026-04-09T13:45:40+00:00

There’s far more intentional dating going on and happiness seems to be far more of a priority than ever before

Must be why the average person is less happy.

This is like cutting all the small trees in a forest and instead of concluding there's less forest you say that the average tree is taller.

MarioWilson122 · 2026-04-10T00:37:53+00:00

That stat does not prove what they want it to prove. Even if married millennials report higher satisfaction than Gen X, that is only talking about the smaller group who actually made it into marriage and stayed there. It says nothing about the wider dating market, nothing about the people getting filtered out, struggling, stuck single longer, or never making it to that stage at all.

So using a married subset to claim modern relationships are healthier overall is a bad argument. That is like looking at the survivors and pretending the whole system must be working great. Fewer people getting into relationships in the first place does not automatically mean “quality over quantity” either. It can also mean the barrier to entry got worse, the market got more lopsided, and only the people who cleared it are left reporting decent outcomes.

society000 · 2026-04-09T13:35:34+00:00

And yet, most people are reporting extremely high rates of loneliness. Depression and anxiety are at highs never seen before. Marriage rates and dating in general are both on a decline.

You only bring one stat related to happiness in marriage. How many are happy in their non-married relationships? Almost everyone says dating/hookup culture is miserable.

Creation_Soul · 2026-04-09T13:18:51+00:00

while true, it doesn't really help those who are struggling to get into relationships.

saying "just look at how green the grass is on the other side and it's become greener in the last X years" isn't going to make them feel good.

While it's not a perfect analogy, it's the same as saying "well, the average wage has gone up", but the distribution of said growth is not equal.

ImaginaryDimension74 · 2026-04-10T00:14:40+00:00

Your conclusion is a correlation fallacy. Of course younger generations are happier with marriage than older generations: fewer of them have experienced divorce and the other negatives that tend to come with time. I bet a lot of bitterly divorced baby boomers would have reported happy marriages when they were young.

That said, it’s clear younger men especially are slower and more cautious to marry and therefore may be making better, more informed choices about marriage.

Alternative_Cod2280 · 2026-04-10T11:26:51+00:00

Thanks for letting relationships are still good for normalshits like you, now flock off then where things are better, I'm sure your relationship is so so great and fulfilling that it doesn't require you to brag about it on in public.

LiftSleepRepeat123 · 2026-04-09T17:39:45+00:00

Satisfaction rate and relationship rate are both important factors, and to say the increase in satisfaction rate is solely a reflection of the reduction in relationship rate sounds like a massive fucking fallacy of your own interpretation, not what studies specifically say. Try again.

razloz166 · 2026-04-10T03:35:39+00:00

Fabulous!!!!

Sources?

(Got your ass, didnt I? 🤣🤣🤣🤣)

Unique-Afternoon6316 · 2026-04-09T16:56:09+00:00

I'm not really sure this says anything. If only one man and woman got married in 2027 and they were happy that would make a 100% marriage happiness stat. I think it's more important to look at, like, satisfaction per captia, because if there are much less relationships blooming although the happiness of those couples may be higher the total number of happy people could be less.

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MissMenace101 · 2026-04-09T23:58:02+00:00

GenX is technically the last generation to have a steep power dynamic issue in most of western civilisation, millennial men and younger are generally more respectful and feminist and the women able to have more independence. It’s really good seeing both women and men working together so women don’t fall behind as much and so men have more connection to their children, millennial men are the first generation of men to invest in their partners retirement while she is stay at home and work with her to make sure her career doesn’t take a huge hit, even if they don’t stay together this is a huge benefit to both of them.

Only_Excitement6594 · 2026-04-10T16:21:11+00:00

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Lucky-Seaweed6807 · 2026-04-15T18:59:14+00:00

Less relationships but happier because only attractive people are in them. Black pill to a T

Jonesdm5 · 2026-04-09T16:28:41+00:00

Oh they aren’t going to take this well. Only miserables allowed here 😂

captaindestucto · 2026-04-09T13:14:04+00:00

Most western nations are having to rely on migrants from socially conservative cultures to 'prop up the system', both in terms of birthrates and filling skills shortages that could have been filled by young people (*ahem young men...) Which points to an uncomfortable truth that dating purely for personal happiness isn't all that great from a wider societal perspective.

Also ignores all the miserable singles aging alone on antidepressants, who might still have been better off married.

Title	Romantic relationships are getting better
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Date	April 9, 2026 1:05 PM UTC (3 months ago)
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