How do you feel about the saying "if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with"?
I am not Stephen Stills but I love the song also a version by Ray Charles. Very Realistic in any era. I always said... "The one with me is the one that is going to have me, and that's alright with me".
I find that line to be about as cringe inducing as "shoot for the moon, even if you miss you'll land among the stars."
Hurt just to type that out.
That was the 70s. Older and wiser love one person at a time. It's healthier for you mentally and physically.
That this isn't actually love that is being discussed. Either the person saying it is fine with mediocrity or the person it is being said about doesn't have any love at all actually. Love is a complex topic.
Mediocre love has worked wonders for me.