Everything can be rated now. All seems to have a number equivalent and I’m curious how did it all started?

How many times you should go out with somebody before taking things into another level? How young should the other person be? At what age you should marry? They all have some numerical value and I can’t help but think, do they really tell you something?

I know a lot of people who’ve been in the same relationship for 7 or more years and usually my first reaction is, “Wow…” because well, my longest serious relationship was five (5) months, serious and acknowledged (let’s not go into details for now). So it usually breaks the hopeless-romantic’s-heart in me when I hear people who’ve been together for almost a decade breaks up. If they can’t make it work, what about us humans?