Going Up & Down (At The Same Time?)

Have you noticed that when things are going really shitty in your relationship, that everyone else around you in a relationship is going through similiar nonsense?  On the flip side; when everything seems to be going really well with your relationship, everyone else is sitting on cloud 9 also?  I never understood why it happens in clusters like that, but I do make it a point to keep an eye out for the bad.  I dont know about you, but I am always waiting for the other shoe to drop, and its a shitty way to live!  Chalk it up to bad experience my entire life, or myself never having luck; but if I knew what I know now when I was in my early twenties, id be a hell of a lot happier!  Theres a reason I say DOWN With Love, and its not because I am some bitter-ex of someone.  No, No; it is because I see too many people base their entire life decision on whether or not they are in a relationship, and I've seen it all go down hill from there.  Putting yourself out there and purposely looking for love is like trying to push a boulder up a ski mountain---it never ends well.  Take a look around, is love really all its cracked up to be??