Though as I've understood, that's how relationships are supposed to function, two people coming together to deal with life and supporting each others weak sides.

Yeah, for some reason, for several years there's been this myth floating around that you need to be 100% self-sufficient before you're ready to be a partner in a relationship, but like...

That is not how human relationships have worked for the entirety of human existence. As long as mammals have been warm-blooded, we've worked together to share burdens and lighten each other's loads. Matching strengths to weaknesses to fill in each other's gaps, etc.

This sort of atomized hyperindividualism is a very recent phenomenon, and it's also very western. Specifically very american, even. Although it tends to spread because of cultural hegemony and social media. But hopefully that's changing now as people lose trust in america and take off the rose-colored glasses.

I also think there's some corporate psyop/social engineering behind it too. Because if they can make people lonely and desperate, they're easier to manipulate, easier to control, easier to play on their vices to make them follow this or that trend, because they get their social perception/intuition through social media and algorithmic filters now instead of chatting with other members of their community at the local water hole or third spaces.

Plus, if people could remember that it's okay to love someone despite their imperfections, then social media and so much of other industries would lose their stranglehold on people's insecurities, which they've found it very profitable to agitate.

Yeah, we have the saying, together we are one good monkey