Economic Panic Is Becoming Romantic Panic (opens in new tab)

There is a peculiar sentence appearing all over Reddit lately: “We’re doing everything right and it still feels impossible.” That sentence matters. Because it captures something larger than financial stress. It captures the collapse of a cultural promise. For decades, Americans were sold a particular emotional narrative about adulthood: study hard, work hard, find love, build a life, buy a house, raise children, be tired sometimes but fundamentally stable. Increasingly, modern couples experie...