Oddbean

Even more, I've become more curious of those who are in marriages or long term relationships ONLY because they are to afraid to be alone, or dating again. Once maried, it seems like friend circles shrink, and even break off. Ive seen many older couples quite sequestered, and lack the skills to feel confident meeting new people. They're more introverted and never developed these skills, because they never had to. Married young to someone, likely around them often, when they were teenagers or college.

I suppose, but I don't think that's a new phenomenon, if anything, I'd argue its declined since somewhere in the 70s. I know very few long time mariges from the 50s to now that didn't struggle with a partner cheating. My sources are not the internet's business XD

it's actually a recurring phenomenon across the ages... in the late 19th century, russia was having its' "free love" time, and the very ❤️ symbol itself actually originates from a time in rome, this represents a leaf of a plant that stimulates abortion (not sure, maybe it's actually rivea corymbosa, aka morning glory, the leaf shape is the same) humans keep falling for the same shit over and over again, i'm sure if you wanted to do a really deep historical survey you can find times where the fad of "free love" arose over and over again and find the same kind of scum, possibly even historically connected scum promoting it

https://www.history.com/news/what-is-the-origin-of-the-heart-symbol generally it actually was simply ornamental, or maybe related to some plants like the ivy as mentioned above... and yes, it is abortifactant like i said not saying it's the *origin* of it but there are related symbols that more accurately represent the three chambers of the heart, as discussed in this link: https://harvardartmuseums.org/article/a-painted-in-ancient-rome-a-brief-artistic-history-of-the-heart-symbol also, i think the most explicitly female sexual version is the one that made it onto playing cards via the Tarot... the original symbol was in fact a chalice, and the wand and chalice are euphemisms used in old writings about sexual conjurations, the spades or swords represent the mind and the disks represents matter