This generation is doomed. Indefinitely. Gen Z, Gen Alpha, Gen Beta and so on. Everyone is doomed. In the not-so-great year of 2025, relationships are so incredibly hard to maintain, not to mention attain.

Many scenarios haunt people, such as escaping the tormented table being the “singles table” during your friend’s wedding reception. But it’s not our fault that we’re single. Who’s to say we don’t try! The amount of times I’ve swiped on dating apps should be illegal in 13 of our 50 states. I think my thumb might be starting to self-rot. Note to self, get that checked out soon.

Over 50% of adults under 30 years old are on dating apps. That’s over 172 million adults. Which means the average person you walk past at your local Trader Joe’s might just be on christianmingle.com. But who exactly of these finger swiping adults are actually having the romantic success story that we all dream of ? So, if online dating doesn’t seem to be doing the trick, why don’t we do it the old-fashioned way? Well, that’s where we run into our generational problem.

We, as a society are day-by-day losing the human ability to simply speak to people. The average young adult in America is severely lacking in the people skills department.

No one knows how to communicate, approach, or interact with one another anymore and I’m not so innocent myself. I’ll intentionally sit in the parking lot of a McDonald’s and wait the extra seven minutes to receive my food. That way, the only thing that’s required of me is a simple “Thank you.”

I have yet to see that things will get better for everyone. Romantically at least. About a quarter of children live in a single parent household. The birthrate is down. Whether couples will get married, or separate is mostly a mixed bag of statistics that don’t give us hope. Or even worse, they’re having an open relationship. The air in my room just got chilly, and I think my light just flickered after typing those cursed words. I’m beyond convinced that open relationships are a 16th century ritual for witches. No, you cannot change my mind.

However, you might be able to change my mind about the future of dating. Is it that the children of the future are incapable of finding love on this not-so love island that we like to call America? Or is it that we’re all living in such stressful times that we can’t simply fathom the idea of a relationship right now? Who knows? Maybe tomorrow these statistics will have reversed, and love will be found in every corner of the earth. And maybe then will love be waiting.