Great observation!
Not going to the market hungry has been a running joke between my wife and I for 20 years! And we’ve had friends so desperate for a loving, perfect relationship like ours that they tried to follow our lead, but managed to totally miss the mark! We met playing a game based on a mutual interest on the then fledgling internet twenty years ago! We DID NOT meet “trying to find someone” through an online dating site or anything like that. Totally analogous to meeting someone in person through church, or school, or some other shared interest, we met goofing around on a web site together! True love will find you when you’re NOT looking for it; just when you least expect it!