This is probably the most apt description of what modern relationship (struggles) have come to look like.

I am coming out of a similar situation and I can’t help but wonder the hopelessness of it all. How do we ever find someone if we don’t communicate. It’s a catch 22. Is it better to just spend time with a love-potential waiting who will say it first, knowing neither will, and atleast one of the two lives in despair and anguish, or is it better to say how you feel with a possibility of finding yourself in despair and anguish.

How do people form communities and bonds if making a relationship work has become a daunting task?