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Dear Breakup Girl,

What is the point of dating someone if you could never see youself married to them? What is the point of dating?

--Macaroni Salad

Dear Macaroni Salad,

For me and Marc Anthony, say, dating would be beside the point on account of it's already clear that we're perfect for each other. But some folks aren't interested in marriage in the first place, so there's that. But if you -- as in you, Mac -- want to get married, like, on the next boy/girlfriend, yet are dating someone you can't see marrying, then you tell me: what, practically, is the point? Or: what, self-defeatingly, is the point of saying you want to get married but then acting otherwise? To be fair -- and to answer your second question -- part of it is this: humans -- unlike the giant panda -- are, simply, social creatures. Except for those of us who, self-defeatingly, will have no hope of ever even dating if we don't tear ourselves away from the Pandacam.

Love,
Breakup Girl

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