Back in the day? You met someone, you got married, maybe had a couple of kids, and that was just life. No swiping, no ghosting, no “what are we” texts at 2 a.m. You just showed up and did the thing.
Now it’s like everyone’s auditioning for The Bachelor: Local Edition. Half the world’s pretending they don’t want love, the other half’s speed-running commitment, and somehow everyone’s still tired. Dating apps turned chemistry into an algorithm. “Talking stages” last longer than most marriages.
So yeah—maybe it’s time to sabotage your own dating life. Not because you hate love, but because the way we do it now feels like a bad remix of something that used to be real.
Sabotage it by falling in love. Sabotage it by not dating at all. Sabotage it by ending the roster with a hard launch, or by keeping one just because you can. Sabotage it by getting married, having kids, living happily ever after—whatever that even means anymore.
The 1980s standard was simple: get married, settle down, do it fast. The 2020s version? Perform your independence while low-key begging the algorithm for connection. It’s all the same pressure, just with better filters.
So maybe the real rebellion is doing none of it right. Maybe the goal isn’t to win the game but to stop playing it like there’s only one way to be happy.
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