Dating your partner

View Quoted Comment Kind of, kind of not - lol! We met at one of our sports leagues, became friends, and then a short time later started dating.

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Ohhhhh just like my husband and I. We also have the same date all across

We dated for 5 years before he proposed. We discussed the idea of marriage about 3 years into the relationship but at the time decided that we would just push it off a few more years since none of us were in a hurry.

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That's understandable

We dated for 5 years and never once discussed marriage. I never wanted to bring it up because I didn’t want him to feel like that was a condition of our relationship. At about the 5 year mark I finally accepted that we probably weren’t ever going to get married & was ok with it. About 2 months later he proposed & it was a total surprise.

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Oh wow, I am happy that he was able to surprise you though!

We dated for 2 years and 5 months before we got engaged. We were engaged for 11 months before we got married.

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I feel like that is good timing, very similar to my myself and my husband

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Yea, I feel like dating for longer than 2-3 years keeps your relationship from developing fully. After 3+ years you get in a co-habitation rut as opposed to building a marriage and family, which I think is very important. That being said, I would never marry anyone that I did not date for at least 1-2 years. I think truly knowing someone is so important before marrying them!

View Quoted Comment Yes because we knew already exactly when we wanted to get married. All of the 2020 brides were taking the 2021 dates so we had to secure a few things before it was "official".

We were together almost 3 years before he proposed. Had a long engagement decided on March 21 moved it due to Covid and now finally getting married in October of this year.

View Quoted Comment After high school was 5 yrs of college. We had a baby afterwards. I got my first post-college job. We got our own first apartment. Considered going back to school for masters. There no way that we would have fit in a wedding or let alone had the money to get married.

We met May 26th 2019

Engaged July 4th 2020

will be married April 23rd 2022

We were 3 months shy of 5 years when we got engaged and we'll be 3 months shy of 7 years when we get married. There were many many talks of where we were at relationship wise in those years, and we really didn't feel as though we were both ready until about 4 years in. Not so much about marriage, because we've been joking for years that we're married without the paperwork, but for the things that come after marriage. We wanted to have a good foundation before we got married so within a year or so after we can start trying for kids and preparing for a family.

We got engaged on our 4-year anniversary

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Just curious, what makes you believe that you can't keep developing a relationship if dating for more than 2-3 years? What is the difference between growing together while still dating vs growing together after marriage?

We dated for 5 years before he proposed, but had talked about marriage maybe 2 years in? We were long distance for 2.5 years in between so that and the pandemic put a slight delay in plans, but we're super happy to be together nonetheless

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Yes you definitely need to know your partner. Thankfully my husband and I were bestfriends for years even before dating.

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That's understandable

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Oh wow similar to my husband and I. We legally got married, pushed the wedding to March 2021 and had to push it once again to October 2021. We were going to re-do the ceremony but now we will just do a reception type event.