Manager’s Special – 20 percent off turkey sausage breakfast links. Good deal. The label says use or freeze by tomorrow. These links are quickly maturing out of saleability.
But not if frozen. There are time limits to the new, the fresh. Malleability, flexibility, the imperative of now belongs to things in play, things that go stale – or rot – if left too long.
Relationships are a bit like that. Lose appeal, get tough, freeze after a spell. Sometimes a thaw adds flavor, sometimes makes an unsavory mess.
But not breakfast links. They keep well in a freezer, and taste just as good down the line. I bought two packages.
Shouldn't...but Do 
Ha! This made me laugh. Nice analogy.