Partnership is important for many reasons. It is natural for most in the soul to desire union with someone else. Everyone at some point desires union, even though a few do not give it much importance in their current lifetime and should be left alone (no one should be forced).
It is also important for most to be in love or to at least have some form of intimacy as far as age markers are concerned. I recently read a statistic that 'for the first time' the amount of adults into doing picnics with stuffed animals was higher than little girls who want to do it. I am seeing really distressing markers of diagnoses exploding. The infantilization and loneliness of adults is starting to create extreme mental illness that is even rivalling the type of distress seen in those who are violated.
However, these things are individual and no one here should be guilt-tripped into a relationship. A lot of Zevists who are strongly intellectual, fiery or airy cannot deal with being smothered by someone else 24/7 like what started to be the case beginning in the Victorian age for the middle classes. The relationship might have to be more intermittent, bombastic or transient than that. You may need space.
This was natural in history, most people worked long hours and men went off to war often. Others who might put relationships as #5 or #10 in their set of priorities in life may just need to take it all less seriously but try to balance this with acting ethically.
Others need deep and passionate soul union consisting of presence and for their lives to revolve around each other, constantly. They take relationships deathly seriously and see everything like an oath from a young age. That's also a model a lot of people here prefer.
Sometimes this is also pertinent to stages of life and development. People can go from one to the other, and it can depend on whom you meet and the energy represented in Synastry.
Certain suffering in children cannot be avoided just because of how bad or good the world is at any point. You could bring them into a completely 'perfect-looking' world and something horrible could still happen, which in a perverse way would be even more distressing for you compared to the 'perfection' surrounding you. The perceived badness of the world that comes from Saturnian limitation is an important learning curve. Circumstances curdling should not prevent the cake from being made...