Cant agree more

Loyalty itself hasn't, the word has just been perverted into something it's not.

I think now it's more of a " if you stay you're loyal " not actually treating the person right or staying for the right reasons?

I’d have to agree on the sense that the tale of the “disloyal lover” and the person looking for a worthy love to treat them right are literally some of the oldest stories that human beings have. When you factor in that for great parts of human history much of “loyalty” in a relationship hipped down to: keeping up appearances in relationships that were often arranged as conveniences or social currency- or relationships where “loyalty” meant a woman being considered property and acting as one would expect property to: in that light we could argue there is a sudden lack of “loyalty.” If we define loyalty as having all the choice in the world, all the opportunity to be disloyal and to hide it that modern technology and a vast population of humans who rarely know each other.... well- in that case modern relationships tend to be more loyal, if anything, considering.

Well... we stopped stoning or vanishing unfaithful or rejected spouses- the first step to a less serious idea of marriage. We stopped forcing social disgrace on most people for deciding that leaving an unhappy relationship was a better altenative to being trapped and unhappy until we die, based on a decision a person made possibly decades ago- before an accumulated wealth of life experience. That probably didn’t help divorce rates. There are a lot more people now for starters, a lot more freedom and choice, less social pressure and sexism keeping women beholden to a husband for support, unable to leave for fear of destitution. You take the good with the bad. Most people think they want to get married when they say “I do.” They generally take it as seriously as they are able to at the time- but people aren’t the best at making life long decisions. That’s why we tend not to have many irreversible life long contracts in life.