Connor Beaton argues that outsourcing relationship advice to the internet makes people believe disagreement means the relationship is over. This fragility gets worse during social chaos, when people need stability most.
The internet is destroying modern relationships and we have the data to prove it. Modern relationships, it feels like they have become more weak and more fragile, increasingly fragile because we have outsourced the help, the resources to a culture, to a society, to people who are so wildly unequipped to give us feedback, or they've bought into this notion that disagreement equals exit. Disagreement means relational death. If you and I disagree, then we can no longer be in relationship. And this has continued to elevate more and more and more and more. The more turmoil you have socially, the more turmoil and transition and chaos you have in a transitional period, the more that the individual psyche looks for assurance. It looks for stability.
How to Raise Strong, Unshakable Boys in Today's Culture, with Dr. Shefali Tsabary
