How long did you date your significant other before..

pandora

Sept 79 class reunion ... he asked me to marry him fall of '80... then moved in...
we married the following May '81

Playing house is fun!

polaris_x

if you are thinking long term with this person ... i would always suggest living together first ... could be after 3 dates or 3 years ... there shouldn't be a time frame for things like this ... the key is that you think this will last otherwise it can get a bit messy if it doesn't work out ...

good luck!

loadedgun

3 months, but by that time I was a live-in, so it was really like 2 months.
That was completely un-characteristic of me, but when you know, you just know.
There wasn't a doubt in my mind.
As of tomorrow, we'll be married for 4 years.

Lizard

never lived together before getting married but seems to have worked!! Dated for 2 years prior

Who Princess

Lizard wrote:

never lived together before getting married but seems to have worked!! Dated for 2 years prior

Same here. We dated for 3 years. I wasn't opposed to people living together, just wasn't interested in doing it at the time. We've been married almost 33 years.

DewieCox

I got engaged after 11 months....Moved in like 4 months later.

I just had a cousin get married. He's studying(?) to be some sort of minister and his wife is a preacher's daughter....They didn't kiss until the preacher told them to at the wedding. I heard that story and thought, I'm not sure I even talked to my wife before I kissed her the first time.

markymark550

technically didn't move in together until we got married

First 2.5 years of dating were semi-long distance as we were finishing up college and she transferred to a different school so she could graduate faster. Last year of dating/engagement year, we both had our own apartments, although I pretty much stayed at her place during that time. We closed on our house 2 months before the wedding and I primarily stayed there because it needed a little fixing up before it could really be lived in. Finished all that just before the wedding and we moved all her stuff in after the wedding. Been married for 3.5 years now.

rick1zoo2

funny emails between my girlfriend and I today:

Her: "I am already hungry for lunch. I think there is something wrong with me. Maybe I have a tapeworm."

Me: "I guess you should have burnt toast and a rotten egg for lunch then"

Her: "since living with you, I have watched more three stooges than I have in my entire life, up until then. So I got that going for me. (do you recognize that line from a movie?) "




So not only has she tolerated watching the Three Stooges (which most females detest), but she is able to quote from all the awesome movies, like Caddyshack. She is truly amazing.

I still won't watch chick flicks though......ok, I agreed to two a year, but I am arguing that The Hangover counts as one

tinkerbell

My husband and I moved in together after 5 years, although we were highschool sweethearts so were too young before that. Lived together for 10 years before we got married on our 15th anniversary in January.

I agree about talking about things first, like how you will split the chores, who will cook etc. If it feels right then go for it, there is nothing better than waking up next to the one you love every day.

Beck..

Thoughts_Arrive wrote:

I used to sneak into her room every night without her knowing, when she found out she started talking about pressing charges and shit went all whack.