About 1,000 facts, trends, and choices about the confusing and sad state of relationships in the new era demonstrate the difficulty of satisfying this simple human need. They show the main sources of relationship conflicts and the consequential, growing personal frustration and depression. With our odd perceptions and values about relationships, we have indeed gotten ourselves trapped in an agonizing web of complex dilemmas.The result is the high rate of divorces, relationship conflicts, and rising social stress. Thus, our options about the possible role a companion can play in our lives must be understood and assessed carefully before getting ourselves ensnared in messy relationships and suffering. Ultimately, we must adopt a new mentality in order to relate in our relationships effectively or design an independent life for ourselves and learn to enjoy it, too, rather alone.