I'm never going to claim to be a relationship guru. The only romantic relationship that I truly regret losing is one that ended entirely because I screwed up.
Still, I've been around the block.
So, here's some bad advice that I've heard.
"If you're not happy, dump him."
Ummm, bad advice. Happiness ebbs and flows. It's not a good idea to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
"He should worship the ground you walk on. You shouldn't accept any less."
This is kinda the same point. I know that I can be difficult to love sometimes. I can be difficult to like sometimes. All of my romantic partners have been hard to like sometimes. Love is a long-term deal. There's a reason why wedding vows read the way they do. You have to survive through the trials and tribulations.
Okay, now, this is gonna be a tough one. I think that hookup culture is a bad idea.
Unless you're Andrew Tate, and you're riding a smorgasbord of new women every day, nobody is benefiting from this.
All you're getting, by sheer fact of biology, is 50% of women competing for 1% of men. Really, we're talking about a small fraction of 1% of men, because most men aren't going to make a commitment to one woman if he can have sex with several women a day.
It's all something that results in momentary pleasure; but, women bear the biological, reproductive burden that men don't. Most single-parent households are run by women. Namely, the fatherless household is more common than the Kramer vs. Kramer household.
A dating culture without commitment is only ultimately beneficial to a small group of men at the expense of everyone ride.