Relationships — dunno but I’m not sure I’ve seen one up close and personal that both lasted more than a few years and wasn’t somewhere on the spectrum of garden-variety miserable to very-miserable.

I think people give longevity a lot more credit than they should — like just sticking around is proof of success.

(Except of course in the motherland where longevity is a given but in that case, no one actually expects to be happy or have that be a barometer of anything or usually even know what that feels like in the context of a relationship with another individual.)