Someone once told me that you can tell a person’s in a good relationship because they rarely mention it. I think there’s probably something in that: the idea that a healthy relationship attracts less introspection, and certainly less texting of the group chat—or indeed, emails to agony aunts . But increasingly I have come to believe that questions around a relationship are as integral to it as sex or laughter. As long as people have been falling in love, they’ve been questioning that fall (how do you know it’s love, is this guy right for me, how much cattle must my father offer for their hand, etc)—but some questions arise more often than others.

With a little help from Google Trends, we compiled five of the questions being asked most frequently right now, both as a way of pinpointing t

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