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I will try to keep this brief:
If you wish to skip over the history leading up to my conclusion go to the end.

I've been in a relationship for 7 months now (in my low 20's) and the love I use to know when I was younger (before this relationship) seems unreachable to me now.
My previous girlfriend lasted over a year long, and ended 2 years ago. The time between then and my current relationship starting, I had one time dates (tinder) that never lead to anything at all.
And I had also gotten into the hook-up culture, which never appealed to me as a nice thing, just a means to an end.
When I met my current girlfriend (via tinder) I was happy that I was talking/texting someone that actually seemed interested in me.
When I finally met with her after talking for nearly a month, I was nervous, but tried to play it cool, and we just talked to each other for a few hours.
We decided that we liked each other enough to go for a second date (which was the day that we became a couple).
From that 2nd date I had a feeling that this was going to last. But as time went on (a couple months) I stopped feeling excited to see her to just happy. I never felt the love I had when I was younger with her in the first place, but I saw potential in the relationship. As time went on we became more intimate, i. e; kissing, groping, cuddling, and eventually sex. But every time I go to see her I only feel happy, and nothing like what I knew in the past. Like there is something missing..

Long story short:
I feel like an end in my current relationship won't hurt too bad, because I know that I could come to love other people BUT I also feel like I love my girlfriend HOWEVER I don't feel the love I had when I was younger (which is when I came to define the feeling of love).

And I was wondering if anyone has felt anything like this. I appreciate any and all commented opinions/stories/explanations.

Hook-up culture is one that accepts and encourages casual sexual encounters, including one-night stands and other related activity.

All I hear and see, is that almost everyone has thrown away their basic morals, and that relationships are almost becoming some sort of a myth, as if relationships never existed in the first place...

The hook up culture now looks like it's being accepted as if it's ok to be a slut/ fuck boy, and have no morals or standards, they just fuck only based on physical attraction... Nothing else matters to them at all, weather that person may or may not have an STD, or if the person them self knows they have an STD, but will not mention it to the person they are about to have sex with because they don't care about it, or if that person was also to catch what they have...

I find that unbelievably shocking, that people think it's ok and normal going around hooking up and having one night stands, as if they are immune to STD's, but having sexual diseres/ needs are normal, if your human, but being a slut/ fuck boy isn't, because we all know that them type of people can never hold a steady relationship, or ever be fully committed to that one person that they are with, and they are the types that are inevitably likely to cheat on their partner, or leave them because they got bored of them and no longer have any use for them...

Share your opinions.

To be a part if hook up culture , I guess you need to be strong enough to take care of your emotions and just keep it just to the business without getting your emotions involved. And I don't think it's for someone like me.

How about you?
Are you strong enough for that?
Explain your reasons below.