This partially solves the problem that I had with the micromarriage concept, which was that dating that was unlikely to lead to marriage (high school relationships, for me) didn’t really count for a lot outside of “get better at dating in this relationship, which will make you more likely to marry one day”. However, I’d add that maybe the QAWY would be more helpful as a general measurement of total, for lack of a better word, utility gained from relationships; e.g. I would say that the total happiness/satisfaction/fulfillment from dating my girlfriend for a year would count as 0.x QAWYs, if that makes sense.
This partially solves the problem that I had with the micromarriage concept, which was that dating that was unlikely to lead to marriage (high school relationships, for me) didn’t really count for a lot outside of “get better at dating in this relationship, which will make you more likely to marry one day”. However, I’d add that maybe the QAWY would be more helpful as a general measurement of total, for lack of a better word, utility gained from relationships; e.g. I would say that the total happiness/satisfaction/fulfillment from dating my girlfriend for a year would count as 0.x QAWYs, if that makes sense.