“I was looking for love in all the wrong places” is a line from country singer Johnny Lee’s 1980 hit “Lookin’ for Love.”
Lots of Americans are apparently looking for love in all the wrong places, or at least are having trouble locating the right places to look for love, and some have given up altogether on the quest for romance and commitment. A pre-COVID 2019 Pew Research Center survey found large numbers of adults reporting that dating has gotten much more difficult. Many of the never-married younger adults claim to lack any experience of a committed relationship, and this same poll found that men and women under age 50 often had higher priorities—usually their jobs or their enjoyment of the single life—than dating and partnership.
