A sense of permanence and trust will continue to erode, and with it, the commitment to invest in others. Self-investment will be the safer and saner bet. For the past three decades American children have attended the school of divorce and learned its lessons. The main lesson is that families break up, relationships end, and love is not forever. One psychiatrist, studying the attitudes of young adults toward committed relationships, noted that they displayed a comparison shoppers mentality which introduces the kind of calculation and guardedness that works against commitment and even against the ability to fall in love.
People change and they stop sharing.
It is much more sensible to plan on a series of relationships, perhaps three or four.