Someone Peed In The Dating Pool

We often catch ourselves saying the dating pool is contaminated, but it’s not random.

It’s the consequence of a cultural experiment gone wrong.

Genuineness replaced with validation. 

For decades, we were told that freedom meant having infinite choices.

Swiping, scrolling, sorting, and selecting other human life.

Romance became a consumer market; we all became the brands. 

And when we are all trying to sell ourselves to someone, authenticity and genuineness drowns in performative behavior. 

This contamination starts with:

We’ll call it Attention Economics, for fun's sake.

Our algorithms seem to reward exposure, not intimacy. Expression, not restraint. 

Men and Women alike have been conditioned to chase and lunge after engagement instead of connection. 

The result? A constant battle of ego where no one remembers what communion even means. 

Then, there’s the unfortunate and sad death our generation faces.

A phenomenon known as Accountability.

When our connections are lukewarm, so is abandonment. 

Ghosting, benching, breadcrumbing. 

Each just a modern word for Disposability. 

Love that used to be free has now become transactional. 

And in the spiritual sense of relationship.

We no longer see the other person created in the image of God.

But as something to admire, then discard. 

The dating pool feels contaminated because it’s the reflection of a generation that forgot how to honor itself first and foremost.

Our solution isn’t another app.

It’s repentance, a return to patience for one another, genuineness, and intentionality. 

The contaminated pool can be clear again.

Once our pride is no longer muddying the waters.