“Love” in the modern world is as much of a distraction as the empty stomach of a wandering mind stuck in a boring classroom lecture. “Love”, the religion of the conformists—mistakenly called “love” that which is simply “committed relationships”. From the same principle of such contracts emerged private property, capitalism, and corruption, among other lovely things in society.
That is to say: it is not the contracts themselves that are negative but that human nature is simply intrinsically too limited for all “love” and the finer things in life as well. Commitments are inherently decisions; there are trade offs, always.
Too limited are humans for true love—whatever that is if such even exists. Only two cases then: either that it is not essential or it is not essential that we know of it, so instead, it exists outside of human control for our benefit, since, so far, the human species has persisted.
Romantic, isn’t it?
What humans need, instead of romanticized agreements, are healthy social networks, companionship, a sense of purpose—those among the basic needs—and those things need not be “love”.