You are in two relationships?
Damn, you have been through a lot. :eek:
Yes.
324 months
Still married.
Wait… you asked about failed relationships. Uh, haven’t had any of those, sorry.
So what would be the answer? 0 months or 324 (in my example)?
how far back on the relationships?
20 months Jr. high but still good friends with her
32 months High school
456 months ongoing, started in college, been married 388 of those months
Discounting dalliances, as in not really going to take them home to Momma for Sunday dinner,
18
13
4
9
51 (Marriage #1)
6
6
166 and counting (Marriage #2)
One at a time.
24 months
18 months
288 months
264 and counting (actually, this relationship hasn’t failed, so doesn’t count, right?)
Sharing living quarters, in months:
50
15
3
3
150
20
12
200
18 months
6 months
6 months
Currently at 470 months and counting.
You need to add an option to add the average age of the respondent’s automobile. I heard the Car Talk guys talking about a theory they had about people who trade in a car at the first sign of trouble and those who trade in a spouse. Those that called their show seemed to bear this out, but they are self selected.
On the average I drive a car 12 years. It should go up now that I’m not in a climate where they put salt on the road five months a year.
108 months
21 months
108 months
current relationship is at 257 months and going strong.
Don’t like to think of them as “failed” – they were what they were, and you’re defining “success” as “a partner dying while married” – but anyway, here you go:
31 months
5 months
46 months
4 months
120 months (yes, exactly 10 years), and going strong
7-ish years. After 6-ish years, he didn’t know if he wanted to get married or not, so I had to say, not.
Current marriage: 20 years and counting.
I took all the data up to and including Chefguy’s and found a formula:
Let t represent the time-length of a relationship (in months) and b (t) represent the likelihood of it ending in breakup or divorce (in percentage) (between now and the infinite future):
b (t)=100(0.970)^t ; t must be greater than 0.
This will tell you the percent chance of your relationship or marriage ending in breakup or divorce between now and the infinite future.
Link to complete explanation for how I found this: Relationships and Addiction | Talk About Marriage
Well, that’s what the title says.
If the relationship has failed, I think it’s time to stop counting. . . . Or maybe all the folks “counting” here are just biding their time?
By your criteria, no failed relationships, one extant 16-year marriage. However, by my criteria I had several relationships before this one.
3 months
6 months
If you broke up and subsequently got back together, do you count it as two relationships of whatever duration, or one relationship of the total duration?
The first girl I dated for over two weeks, I married. The relationship hasn’t failed yet.
One relationship of the total duration.
3 months
30 months
90 months