Failed Realtionship a Waste of time?

[Sister Havana]

I was with my last boyfriend for five and a half years. I don't consider that wasted time. I did learn many things...first and foremost, that I am able to maintain a relationship past six months. I also learned that I can be involved with people completely the opposite of me. We were so different. I'd never tasted deer jerky or knew anything about demolition derbies before I met him (love deer jerky, can take or leave demolition derbies) and he never knew about the Internet (really!) or had been out of the US before he met me.

And after we broke up, you would not believe how many people thought we broke up because I wanted to get married but he wasn't ready, when actually it was the other way around! (The reason we broke up was because our lives were going in two very different directions and we could not come to a compromise on several important issues...it was time to end it.)