It's pretty awful, isnt it? Romance is pretty well dead --books and tv promote revolving door affairs. I don' t think they even look at one another as people with feelings. When someone is hurt they're just told told to "move on" as if it should be easy to detach your emotions from one person and transfer them to another at the drop of a hat.

If it makes you feel any better -- some women feel the same. My daughter (who is about the same age as you) often wonders why her friends can move from relationship to relationship without taking time out to assess what went wrong and work on whatever aspects of themselves contributed to the problem.

She doesn't understand how they can claim to be "in love" with a constant parade of men, one after another.

But I'll admit I sort of cheated when parenting her. When she was getting old enough to date I made her watch a film called "Looking for Mr. Goodbar".It's one of those things that can strongly discourage any woman from getting involved in a lifestyle of casual sex. Unfortunately, it's seldom run anymore. If it was -- you wouldn't see women acting the way they do now.

Once my daughter saw it -- she decided being "old -fashioned" was much safer.