The dull ache comes down to an inherent flaw of a single person. And this is the new age of isolation. There is e-mail, premium cable, delivered food, rental movies, and home gyms. You'll be lucky to see your boss more than once a week. Every other person is nursing an Internet fantasy relationship with faceless words.
Divorce rates keep going up and the carpool lanes are going to remain pretty empty.
It's an epidemic of loneliness. Meanwhile, doctors are handing out Serzoan and Prozac like restaurants hand out mints. John Gray is making his fortune saying men are from Mars, so we don't need to understand women, as long as we go by the cookbook of love for Venusians. These are all signs of the impending doom. We have become a nation of people too lazy to search out and demand the things that really count.