The Break-Up Equation
I actually did come up with an equation for how long it takes to get over someone after a break up!
Here it is!:
[(X x Y) + (E + F)] / 2 = M
X is the rating of how bad the break-up was (1 being not bad, 9 being the worst)
Y is who broke up with who (1 is you, 2 is your partner)
E is the rating of the emotional damage you’ve suffered after the break-up (basically how close you were to your partner) (1 being not that close, 9 being really close)
F is the rating of emotional baggage you have before the break-up (basically how good the relationship was while you were in it). (1 being little to no baggage, 9 being lots of baggage).
M is the number of months of recovery required before moving onto another relationship.
You divide that by two because that’s the number of people involved.
So basically, if you know yourself well enough to be able to rate these things, then you can find out yourself how many months you need to get over someone!
I made break-ups nerdy…sweet :3
hahaha GREAT 😀 That’s what I needed now
hmm and I thought the rule was “before you asked a girl to go out with you after she broke it off, take the years the relationship lasted, and don’t ask her for that many months. So 3 years, 3 months. Take the additional months, and add that to how many days so 11 months, hell at that point go 4 months, but if you can’t wait at least 3 months 11 days.
So for my first breakup, it would be 18 months (yup, all where max). Meaning 1,5 years. It was closer to 4-5 years (or never, depending on my mood), but close enough. Bravo!
I’ve seen a simpler formula in the forum for another webcomic. It’s basically: Length of relationship/2
Whilst these formulae are fun, I have to say that I am a little doubtful:
http://www.onthemedia.org/story/bogus-blue-monday/
There was another programme that I wanted to link to but, as I can’t correct search terms are to put in the BBC website, and I don’t want to go through a year or more of that series, I’ll just post this as it is.
Found it:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03c4htj
(Don’t ask me how I did because that’s quite a long and nerdy story in itself.)
I love that you created an equation. But it looks like this thing caps out at around a year. I have personally experience that not being long enough.
Conveniently societal imposed relationship exile prevented that from being an issue. =P
hmm, maybe I need to revisit this and modify it a bit. lol :3