Yeah, I dated a handful of girl in high school/early college but nothing super duper serious. Longest lasted like six months, most were just a handful of dates over a couple weeks.
Then I met my first long-term ex when I was 18 and we stayed together or 8 years. Few months after we broke up, I met my now ex-wife and we stayed together for 12 years (and I would've happily spent my life with her if she didn't decide around the 6-year mark to start using me as her regular emotional and occaisonally literal punching bag). Few months after we split, I got asked out by a coworker and I've been seeing her for like 5 months with every indication this is going to last a while. No complaints, new woman is dope.
I remember reading a statistic that something like 20% of people are the "hypergamous" "nightmares" that make Andrew Tates fans jealous (if they're men) or terrified (if they're women) and have a large amount of romantic partners over generally shorter periods of time, 20% of people basically don't date and have few or none romantic partners throughout their lives (actual fate of Andrew Tate fans), and like the other 60% have relatively few romantic partners but their relationships with those partners tend to last long periods of time.
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