Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging

truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

According to Michael Lieberwitz, an opinion piece at the New York Times, dating is broken.

When Pew Research surveyed those in the dating scene, in fact, 67% of respondents answered

that their dating life was not going well to some degree.

The 25% said it was easy to find a day.

The rest reported finding it either very or somewhat difficult, and those are just the

results among those who are actively trying to date.

About half of single Americans, by contrast, have just stopped looking.

Meanwhile the number of single people in the U.S. is now at an all-time high, nearly one

in three U.S. households represent someone living alone.

The many gladly opt for the single life, others feel trapped by social trends that they

didn't invent.

Either caught in a cycle of short-term relationships or starved for options in a world that doesn't

seem to share their values.

Now technology is, of course, a major factor behind the significant changes brought in all

our human relationships.

After the hook-up app, Tinder, turned 10 years old this year, journalist Kathleen Pearson

offered what she called, quote, a moment of collective reflection about how apps have

reshaped not just dating culture, but the emotional lives of long-time users.

One young woman told Pearson that she's over at all, the swiping, the monotonous, getting

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