Optimization vs. Optionality in Dating

1940s 1950s FAMILY WATCHING TELEVISION IN LIVING ROOM (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images)

I wrote this after having a rather frank conversation with a close friend. He encouraged me to share our conversation here, and I said, what the hell—why not?

There’s an idiom I keep seeing in different manifestations on Twitter. It’s always so…