Thank you. I gave up on relationships initially out of defeat and the desire not to tarnish others' lives. I consider it a service not to spread my misery to others. More pragmatically, I think relationships would be a distraction to my personal cause, and would inevitably collapse to drive me into a deep, inescapable depression. I know this by constantly hearing about the traumas of couples that were seemingly meant for each other, but then they break to leave themselves weaker than ever before. I have a near-traditionalist reverence for what a relationship should be and believe that every successful one should end in marriage. But marriage itself is a trap...I don't think humans are built to be happy being together for 20-70 years at a time