Ninety days or less. If a man does not make it past ninety days of dating me, they are strictly referred to by occupation/nickname. What started as a joke became my cardinal rule, created by a good friend. There were too many men and too many names in such a short period of time that actual first names became confusing, or rather, unimportant to the details of my experiences. This has been the happenstance of the last 7 years of my dating life.