On & Off relationships, We've been in a relationship for 9 months?

Natasha
This coming November, we would have been dating for a year. But through out the 9 months we've gone, no more than 2 weeks not talking or calling it quits. Either family argument to us disagreeing with something. We always come back to each other, which leaves people around us shaking their heads, why? Does it count as the 9 months?