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Couple of thoughts: is there really a decline in romance or is that just the perspective of coastal/large city prestige publication writers? Seems to me in my personal experience people generally still manage to find partners for traditional marriages although they do seem to delay having kids more and have fewer.
As for the culture war, speaking for just myself, it's not just that I want to make money (I do) in my career but I like having concrete and tangible outcomes for my work, and if I had…
I think there's pretty good data showing that marriage rates have fallen, birth rates have fallen, the amount of sex people are having has fallen, the average age of marriage has been getting later. That does suggest there's a real decline, though surely there are special and more extreme dynamics most likely in some of these coastal cities.