Does being married feel different?

Everyone keeps saying it does! Lol

Yes! We lived together 2 years before we got married. We feel a lot closer now than ever before, which was surprising considering we were together 7years before getting married

Nope, lol. There is a little bit of a difference in *knowing* you're married now and officially tied together forever :-) But if you've already joined together your living situation and finances and responsibilities, it's really not too much different.

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I was just telling my cousin on Monday how life will only change in paper. We moved in together since May. I wonder how we will feel after we get married. Exciting!!

Other than being stoked to officially take his last name, nothing really feels different for us. We've been living together since 2010 though so that's probably why lol

Daily life doesn't feel different. Knowing that I am officially hitched to my best friend feels great!

Nope! Except for me certain things he did while dating that involved spending or things like that suddenly bothered me more because now it's about OUR future. Before, I felt more like that's his money and after marriage I felt differently. The first 2-3 months after marriage I was in this honeymoon period. Now it just feels like regular daily life.

Nope.

We've been together for 7.5 years, and lived together for 2.5 years. Nothing feels different.

Doesn't really feel different. The only thing weird I'm still getting used to is saying "my husband" and having a different last name.

Not for us. We've been together almost 12 years, lived together for 2 before the day of our wedding. Some things felt different, like signing the application for the marriage certificate and picking it up, but other than that nothing really has changed. It was, and still is a little weird, to refer to him as my husband though.

I think being engaged feels different. We also moved in together the week after he proposed. I would think being married is also a little different but in a lot of ways I think we're already in that mentality. We've been together 5 years.

We've lived together/owned a house for 6 years prior to getting married. Absolutely nothing changed. We just went back to our daily lives, with much less money lol.

Nope. nothing changed once the wedding weekend wore off. life returned to normal. but we had been together for 12 years. engaged for 3. lived.together for 2.

Sara&L - You guys sound so cute :-) That's funny about the meal complimenting, haha.

I didn't think it felt different. We lived together at least 2 years before marriage.

When people ask how married life is, I usually say "the same as unmarried life but now there's more paperwork." You know, because I did a name change

To be honest, to me nothing really feels different.

I think it depends on a few things. For us, we had already been living together a while, had a pet together, had a joint bank account, beneficiaries on each other's life insurance and wills, split bills and housework. In other words, we treated each like we were partners in life. For some, things like changing your wills, getting pets, even living together comes after the wedding. Then yes, I can imagine things feel different.

For us, getting married was just about making the decision that we had made long ago "legal and official". Although my heart does flutter when I get to call him "my husband".

It doesn't FEEL different. What is different is the way that people treat you. Or at least, that has been my experience.

It feels wonderful. Our relationship didn't change, except that we feel closer, like @Alyssa said. I love being his wife and introducing him as my husband. But we lived together for almost four years before we got married, and his dirty socks on the floor still bug the crap out of me. Lol.

I haven't found it different at all.

No, it doesn't feel any different. I mean right after the wedding I had an oh shit what's mine is yours moment ha but then it went back to normal. But we have been together almost 10 years so that may have something to do with it.