Turn of phrase that struck me as odd, from this Ask Metafilter question:

“I recently completed my first serious relationship, a year-long cohabitation. It ended, in large part because…”

Emphasis mine.

The choice of “completed” seems really strange: a romantic relationship isn’t usually something that’s seen as having clear, pre-defined start- and end-points, nor some set of contraints that determine when it has, say, hit 100%.

A contract, that you can complete.  And I suppose there’s the contrivable case of a relationship that was planned down to the minute (or requirement) from day one or earlier, but the question this comes from doesn’t seem to be anything like that.  It’s a relationship that the poster has just ended – or at least I’m supposing he ended it, but it may have, with less unilateral agency, simply ended.

Huh.