clever-ish piece on dating

BPS sent this amusing n+1 article my way. Some highlights:

Dating presents itself as an education in human relationships. In fact it’s an anti-education. You could invent no worse preparation for love, for marriage, than the tireless pursuit of the perfect partner.

We must stop dating. But we can’t. Because the only way to stop dating would be to date more, and more efficiently...

The only way to stop dating is to fall in love. But how, under conditions of dating, would this be possible? You are affected by all the dates you’ve been on, the relationships you’ve had. The pain you’ve inflicted binds you to the people who bore the brunt of it.