I have decided some things.

I think a lot of the pain and suffering people feel when they are my age and younger (the 18-31 group) is in the fact that you change your whole conception of who you are around completely. Your threshold for what is entertainment, what is fulfillment, what is worthwhile all has to change. You have to become satisfied with the fact that your primary conversation and gratification will come from primarily one person. You have to be gloriously entertained by dancing butt-naked in front of the TV while your significant other is watching it just to make a weird noise with your butt-cheeks.
Change is always hard, but I think it has become even harder for every generation since television spread en masse over the technological world, and harder for every consecutive generation since then. The curves and splendor of the themes most celebrated in television and cinema have ratcheted themselves into our brains so hard that they can sometimes only be shaken out with mental illness. Think about it: who wants to happy with mediocre domestic bliss? With mediocrity? With sadness? With pain?
No one. Its fucking unfashionable.
The very structure of televised story telling cuts life down to its most exciting bits, cutting from one moment to another in two or three minutes. People are always in a state of meeting each other, making first impressions, or falling in love, causing us to want to always be meeting new people, making first impressions, or falling in love. As some poet who later killed himself said, "The truth is painful, life is boring, my friends." Or something to that effect. One of Rita Dove's friends. But life is only boring if you are bored with what it is, if you expected it to be a party and really it is just you getting older every year, sitting in the dining room with your dog and your mom's girlfriend. Don't freak out.