Is the idea of love just for profit now

We have commodified the bare minimum. Online men can make their whole brands about loving their wives and we applaud them and are so happy to watch their relationships. It’s so easy to say that their relationships are perfect and all you want is someone to love you like he loves her and treat you like he treats her. 

And then we find out that he cheated or some other bad thing about them. 

Everyone talks about how they can’t believe they would do that, their wife was their whole world he loved her so much. We feel betrayed and stop supporting the cheaters and give love to the people they hurt. And although it may seem like petty online drama that has no real merit. How invested we all get in these relationships actually says a lot about how people expect to be treated.

Anytime I see some news about a man cheating on their wife I can always almost guess that it’s with some girl that’s younger than their wife. The idea that a lot of men cheat with younger women is so common that it’s literally become a cliché in movies and TV shows. 

I mean come on if you’re going to ruin your relationships can you at least be creative about it. 

But it’s okay for all the women who are cheated on, there will be thousands of books, shows or movies, that will have a character go through what you’re dealing with and will get a happy ending. So you can believe that maybe you’ll find one too.

In fact, the romance book industry makes about $1.44 billion every year according to bookroit.com. And rom-coms made $1.36 million in 2021 according to statista.com. 

There are whole markets appealing to people who might have issues with romance or need something that says people can be good in relationships and that someone could love someone like them.

It leaves the question of do people like to read about love so much or is there just so little of it given that people have to read or watch it happen to be sure it’s real. I’ve grown to realize it’s more often the latter. Name one person you know that hasn’t had an experience either from dating or bad friends or family that made them question love. I can’t name one.

So are we really so bad at loving each other and being kind to each other, or have we just lowered our standards so much that it’s normal to treat people poorly and accept being treated poorly?

And has it become too much to expect to be treated kindly or actually be given love in your relationships?

It seems to be the common thread behind the success of men who can create entire brands off actually caring for and loving their wives and families. We need to treat each other better, and stop settling for the bare minimum. Because it’s insane that men can profit off doing what they should be doing in relationships – being a loving partner. 

Stop settling for the bare minimum, because we all deserve to be treated with real love.