All true. But what happens is that you start to wonder why you thought you wanted to date and find a partner in the first place. The reality of dating and dating culture is not the same bill of goods that gets sold to us from the time we are in diapers.

So you start to wonder. Was this something I really wanted or something I thought I was supposed to want?

A lot of us were adamant as girls that we were never getting married. When that's the case, you figure that dating and marriage was something you were supposed to want, not something YOU really WANTED.

You feel like you got scammed by societal expectations.