Love Is Situational – In Today’s Time

 Love Is Situational – In Today’s Time

Is it really, that love has become situational? A question that pierces the soul. A feeling once believed to be unconditional, timeless, and free from logic now seems tangled in circumstances, conditions, and convenience. The question is not just "how did we get here"—but "how did we let this happen?"

In the past, love was treasured. It was enduring, selfless, and patient. People trusted in healing rather than ending, stayed through storms, and held hands during fights. Love comes and goes more quickly these days. It waits for favourable circumstances, advantageous times, and individual gains. Love falters if one's career is uncertain, one's job is lost, or one's mental health is troubled. It pulls away. It reviews the terms and conditions on its own.

How come? We have replaced connection with compatibility checklists. We seek validation instead of understanding. We fall for appearances but flee from emotional depth. Technology, dating apps, and social media have turned love into a swipe, a like, a temporary thrill. The depth has been sacrificed at the altar of convenience.

How did this happen? Because somewhere along the way, we become terrified of depth. Vulnerability became a threat rather than a virtue. We were so focused on self-love that we forgot that true love frequently entails giving, sacrificing, and adapting. The'me-first' generation has glorified barriers to the point where bridges are no longer being formed. Relationships now have expiry dates, which are determined by fear and conditions rather than fate.

We say “I love you,” but do we mean it beyond good times? When struggles arrive—be it financial, emotional, or physical—love becomes silent. Commitments once spoken with grandeur are now ghosted with indifference. People no longer leave when love dies; they leave when comfort dies.

How have we stooped so low? Love is now a deal, not a devotion. “What do I get out of this?” has replaced “What can I give to this?” Relationships are ending not due to lack of love, but due to lack of willingness to fight for it. We've become emotionally lazy, expecting love to be easy, effortless, and perfect.

But all hope is not lost.

True love still exists—rare, quiet, and often away from the spotlight. It shows up in silent sacrifices, in late-night check-ins, in forgiving after a fight, and in choosing each other again and again despite the chaos. The world may be shifting, but we can still choose differently. We can choose to love not because it is easy, but because it is worth it.

So let’s not normalize situational love. Let us rise again to the kind of love that holds space, that bends but doesn’t break, that stays—not for the situation, but for the soul.

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