Therapy taught me that being single was never the problem — it was the stories I told myself about unworthiness, and learning to rewrite them has helped me find confidence, healing and self-acceptance.

High school me loved not having to socialize during COVID, but now, as a college senior, I see how that time reshaped our generation’s ability to connect. I talked with a Utah Tech University professor about how the pandemic and technology have shifted dating, communication and the way we form real relationships.

When all of your friends are in relationships and you’re not, there’s a strange kind of loneliness that comes with being the chronically...