Failed Realtionship a Waste of time?

[33girl]

I think they are only "wasted" if you haven't learned anything from the relationship or if you never had ANY good times (and if the latter is true why would you stick around for multiple years).

Life is not a series of things to check off to get from here to there, or it shouldn't be. If you look at a relationship as a tollbooth on the way to the Marriage Exit, you will most likely be very disappointed at some juncture, whether it's breaking off something you are enjoying because "I'm not getting there on my timetable" or because you get to that goal and it doesn't measure up to what you thought it would be.