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> healthy life is impossible without a sexual/romantic partner is eye-opening, and a bit horrifying.

It seems to be true for most people, in my experience. I don't see it as "horrifying", just a normal/typical human thing.

Mind explaining (a) precisely whom you're talking to in your second paragraph, (b) how you inferred that they're running from their problems, and (c) what those problems are?

Reproduction may be the most fundamental desire that humans have and is essential to the continuation of the species.