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Dear Breakup Girl,

I have reached the conclusion that current societal trends suggest that most decent relationships last on average three years. Do you agree that in opposition to the 50's, contemporary GenX people will therefore exist in a string of three-year relationships and in a constant cycle of grieving and happiness?

-- Cross-Eyed and Well-Spun


Dear Cross-Eyed,

Are you talking about current societal trends, or are you talking about your current societal life? Anyway -- and either way -- don't think for a minute that people in the 50s did not exist in a constant cycle of grieving and happiness (if you remember, it was "Happy Days," not "Happy Life"). Just because dating procedures were clearer and the institution of marriage appeared more stable, the world -- and relationships -- were hardly problem-free (McCarthy, Rosa Parks, hydrogen-bomb-building, women "getting pinned," whatnot). So instead of falsely idolizing times gone by, let's exist in a constant cycle of grieving and happiness today.

Love,
Breakup Girl

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