I was talking to a friend the other day, she is just graduating from college and was dating the same guy for three years.
Now he wants to go far away for Grad School and she is't sure whether she wants to relocate or not, or whether that would even work anyway.
So then she says a key phrase: "Well I hope I haven't wasted the last three years . . . " This applies to the idea that they wouldn't get engaged/married, obviously that had been an expectation (her being a girl and all

).
So my question to those of you that have been in long term relationshipsand maybe cherished the tender idea of marriage, did you/ do you think that it you wasted X years of your life that you might have been better served to be with someone else that might have led to forever?