Why oh why do people want to be in relationships? The pain I'm seeing some of my friends go through now over relationships ending is so bad that no benefit can possibly be worth the anguish.
It mostly just is, and I think there can be some comfort in that. But (and this plays into a motif from Gene's babies-in-cars article) a lot of people can't handle the randomness, and need to see some huge emotional dialectic in the world for them to accept bad stuff. It just makes the highs higher! Hey, buddy, if that works for you...
Re: relationship pain