Anonymous
asked:
I don't understand support for single Peter. It informs readers upfront his relationships will fail. This undermines readers' emotional investment in his relationships and drama behind them. Peters past romantic life was powerful and iconic because readers freely believed in it. No one told them they weren't allowed to succeed. Something people believed in and could root for is now a joke, no more than a shallow spectacle. How does this benefit the character?
This is only true if you believe that marriage is the only successful outcome to a relationship. And I don’t know that this is really the case–particularly in the 21st Century, where the number of marriages is down, and those that are happening are tending to happen later in life.