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Modern love: We must accept that relationships have an expiry date

Casual relationships, more like contractual agreements are slowly being normalised in modern-day dating and people no longer die tying themselves to each other on forever-for-better-and-worse terms.

Times have changed and relationships rarely hit the three-month anniversary time because people even break up after the first date. So why would someone be lonely for days on end, for years in the name of waiting for a forever partner when they can casually date for fun and social status, for sex and other benefits as they juggle to see if it can last or not?

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