We place far too much pressure on romantic love as a society. It’s true that there are amazing experiences that only this feeling will bring, but many of us have a tendency to focus on that and forget about all the other great things we can enjoy when we’re happily uncoupled. If we didn’t have any of those, what the heck would we write on our online dating profiles?

When many of us have been conditioned to believe that it is an essential part of our lives, deconditioning ourselves from the need to find ‘the one’ is a long process. One of the positives of dating app despair is that it opens our eyes to the fact that nobody is going to be our 100% perfect person, because there is usually a sharp difference between the standards in our head and bleak reality. If so many other people are as messed up as some of the examples below, lord knows what it says about us.