Hypothetically speaking.
If you baked a cake and loved it very much, put your heart and sould into this cake. This cake now means everything to you. One day you come home and the cake is gone. You're torn because you planned on having the cake forever.
Now you had a "forever date" with this cake. IE: humanly speaking, marriage but we'll call it a forever date since this is about cake
Two months after the cake disappeared and a month after your supposed forever date the cake shows up again. Perfect and untouched.
You pick up the cake and take it back in. Continuously letting yourself love this cake. Take care of the cake and planning another forever date with this cake. The cake then disappears again. This time for three months before the cake shows up again. Perfect, healthy, and wants to have the forever date happen within months.
Do you keep the cake and the forever date.
or..
The cake is expired, throw it out.