Don't get your hopes up about long-term relationships lololol

Basically, they think 'This person isn't marriage material, but I'm too scared to find someone new and I'll be lonely, so I *wish* I could break up but I'll just keep dating them. Time just passes.' If you don't say 'Let's break up,' you end up dating for a long time.

I believe long-term relationships where both partners are each other's ideal type are true love. But usually, couples in long-term relationships don't really have ideal types... They're usually the type that no one else would even touch.

So, those two, while others are dating happily and in love, they just endure it because they don't want to be lonely. They date forever and ever, and then if one of them luckily finds someone else, they run off without looking back.

That's why the term 'switching partners' in long-term relationships is so common. But if it were me, and I luckily found a new alternative, I'd run off the same way, so I can't say I was 'switched on.' Truly, for all those years, no one even hit on them. They both know for a fact it's not marriage material, but they can't say 'Let's break up' because they don't want to be alone. They're trapped together, it's just so pathetic.

That's the reality of long-term relationships. It's not a generalization, but 99.9% are like this.