The one I held in my hand a few months ago was no surprise, and there was no debate as to whether or not I would go: we had dated for almost a decade, broken up amicably, been supportive friends to each other ever since with no dramatically lingering what if's between us, and our many mutual friends would be there to celebrate.
The following advice is aimed at adults who have been dating for a good decade already.
The couple met at Harvard University as classmates and dated for more than a decade before getting married.
Many of our straight friends dated for close to a decade before tying the knot, and while marriage was always the end goal, we both assumed it would happen sometime down the road, when we could afford to pay for a lavish wedding and honeymoon.
And, in an age when Manhattan had been overrun by the kind of chain stores you'd find at a suburban mall, these attributes had kept her in dates for a decade and the word "beautiful" had been lobbed over her head with surprising — to some of us, disturbing — frequency.
Patience was busy with her publishing career in New York and had serial dated for two decades.
To collect the fines, in some cases for tickets that dated back a decade, the city had sent suspension notices.
Huhne, 58, and Vicky Pryce, 60, were jailed on 11 March for an offence dating back a decade when Pryce took speeding points for her then husband.
Huhne, 58, and his ex-wife, Vicky Pryce, 60, were jailed on 11 March for an offence dating back a decade when Pryce took speeding points for her then husband.
