It's an interesting thought experiment to try to figure out how a person would react if entering the dating market in 2024 after a 10 year relationship.
Someone who was in a steady relationship from 2014-2024 likely got married at some point during that time and is possible re-entering the market with a child/children.
Smartphones and text messages had been well established by 2014.
Tinder launched in 2012 and had made its presence felt by 2014. Ghosting and flaking were big by 2014.
I don't think 10 years ago is that much of a change though a man would likely feel rusty if not having had to seduce new people since then.
20 years ago we had MySpace, MSN with the girls with hearts and smiley's in their profile names and cellphones. We had rockband that seemed unstoppable.
Fast forward ten years. Rock is gone, MsN is gone. Ten years ago Tinder was still newish and online dating was still frowned upon. Nobody knew that an obsese 50y.0 hb3 would get a full inbox in the matter of hours. Facebook was unstoppable and we were ballzdeep into hiphop.
That's why I say 20 yeas feels like yesterday. Meanwhile we have Amazon, Facebook is dying and every woman older than 40 grew up with OLD. Meanwhile we have an entire generation of men who are invincible in the dating market.
Popular culture didn't progress hence the endless stream of remakes and remixes. This makes US feel as if tike stands still: it does NOT.
It will take another 5/10 years to determine what's going on today.
