The Rule is an acknowledgment of one's own mortality and is invoked as a means of avoiding activities, people, movies, organizations, books and TV shows that are very likely a total waste of time.

In essence, it means that each of us only have a finite number of summers left, and those summers aren't to be frittered away on meaningless crap.

Micro marriging is when your partner manages your personal day-to-day tasks with you much like a Micro Manager at work.