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Half-Life of a relationship is the time necessary to get over a breakup as expressed as a percentage of the total length of time of the relationship. For example some people take about 1/3 the time the entire relationship lasted for the sense of loss to finally resolve. Concept comes from nuclear physics where the half-life of radioactive material to become less toxic as expressed as a time value from the exposure (breakup) to the radioactive material.
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