We got together Nov 00, moved in Feb 01, asked me to marry him in Mar 01 but we didn't tell anyone till we had the ring in July 01. Married Sept 03.
So been together 9 years, married for 6 and engaged for 2.
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We got together Nov 00, moved in Feb 01, asked me to marry him in Mar 01 but we didn't tell anyone till we had the ring in July 01. Married Sept 03.
So been together 9 years, married for 6 and engaged for 2.
April 2008 Met Started Dating Asked me to marry him 2 weeks after we met
May 2008 I moved in to his Place
August 2008 I turned 21 and got Preg with DS
December 2008 We got married
Now been together 20 months :)
my dh and I were together 4.5 years when he proposed the day we moved in together. We got married 10 weeks later. We have been through hell and back as a couple over the past 7.5 years but life is awesome. I must admit not living together was really tough on us and made our first year married VERY VERY tough. But we got through that and now I am just so happy i married my best friend.
Dh and i were together for a year then got engaged, engaged for a year then got married, and we've been happily (for the most part) married for 2 years.
Even after this long (4 years) im still learning things about him, same as himw ith me, i dont think you can ever fully completely know someone. But thats just IMO
DH and I got married 2 days shy of 16months of being together, we were engaged after about 5months and have been married for 3yrs 8months and 2 kids and very happy. We didn't live together prior to marriage.
And personally I don['t think this makes a difference. I think the dating process shows if you are compatible, like each other, havign things in common etc etc etc and the idea of living together to see if it "works out" is a bit of a fallacy because there is always going to be something that you clash on and doesn't "work out" relationships involve being commited to working things out and compromise etc so nope don't think the living together factors in there.
Personally I think it crazy being engaged after only 5months lol but it just felt right and I still think it is right
We had been together 3 years when we had our first bub, 4 years when we got married and had 2nd bub. Will be 5 years this May.
I met DH when I was 17 when his suburb moved into my cong's territory. Wasn't interested at all, not my type. Lived on next block, same church, same gym we were great friends since there wasn't any interest on my part anyway, we really got to know each other warts and all without reservation. Finally decided would give him a chance at 19, we were engaged 6 months later. Married 5 months after that. Didn't live together etc due to our religious values. Been very happily married for over 4 years now. Also, I still lived with my parents when we got married, and for that matter, his mother had moved down into the area and moved in with he and his flatmate before we started dating as well
DH and I had been strictly online friends for 9 yrs when we decided we should probably meet up - and it was just a friends meet, well I thought so anyways. During the 9 yrs I'd wondered at times if he could be the "one", but our friendship just stayed that - a great friendship. We both had other relationships during those years. The minute I laid eyes on him and he walked up to me I just knew he was the one, and he later said he came with the intention of telling me he'd fallen in love with me over the 9 years!
It took us 3 days to 'get together', I moved over here and in with him 5 months later and we were married exactly a year and 1 day later. We've been married just over 2 years now.
We have friends that have met and married very quickly, and friends that have been together for many years without marrying. It is so uniquely different for everyone!
Met DH when he was 24 and I was 23 and he was backpacking around Australia. He spent a week with me in the country town I was teaching in and then left to continue his travels down to Sydney (leaving me a list as long as his arm of addresses I could contact him through!!) Got a phonecall from him a couple of days later saying he was coming straight back to be with me!! He moved into my place straight away and from that day we were just together. That was 12 years ago.
We lived together 5 years before buying a house together and getting married (which was when we unofficially started TTCing :rolleyes:) So we have been married 7 years now and are finally having our first baby!!!
Snap :p - we were married 14 months after getting together. I was 19, he turned 24 two weeks later.:
We will have been together 14 years in February, married 13 years next April.
Boy have we been through some s*** along the way.
Like Trillian said - I knew people who were together for years, got married & then pfft... all over just like that - so I figured why wait...
DH and I met when I was 16. It took him almost 2 years before be succumbed to my charms :lol: and we never spent a night apart from 3 months together. Decided not to waste rent money so moved in together after 6 months and got engaged a year later, married 6 months after that.
We have now been together for 10 years and married for 8. During that time we have emigrated twice, had 4 children, and are about to emigrate for the 3rd time. He is my rock, I could not imagine how my life would have turned out without him in it.:redface: (just don't tell him that;))
I havent read all of the responses but some of them are wonderful and dont make me feel so bad about mine, well i dont feel bad but people always commented.
I started going out with Dp when i was 15 (he was 21) he proposed to me on our 10 months anniversary so i was almost 17. We didnt make it official until i was 18 (so didnt tell my mum or my grandparents until then) we lived with each other on and off because of problems with our families (my mum kicked me out, then his mum kicked him out.... we moved back with our mums.. ahh confusing!!) but we didnt move in together properly until May this year (together almost 5 years) and our first bubba is due a month before our 6 year anniversary. We have no set date for our wedding but im not worried as we will get married when it suits us not everyone around us.
But i have to laugh at the people who say i have rushed into everything. I met him when i was 15 we moved in together properly when i was 20 and found out i was pregnant 2 weeks before my 21st.
But it was weird from the moment i met him i knew i would be with him always.
a lot of these stories are sooo romantic!
end of '05 DH and I met (I was 16 he was 26. and met when i worked at a subway :redface: )
Feb '06 started dateing
June '07 i moved in with DH
Feb '08 got engaged (on our 2year anna)
apirl '08 we found out i was UTD
Nov. 27th 2008 we got married.
Feb.7th DJ was born.
and now we're expecting #2!
we've had ups and downs. we've had alot of people tell us it wouldnt work becuase of the age gap, plus meeting when i was so 'young' didnt help. but he's may support my main man. and i dont know what i'd be like with out him. all i know is he'd still be having 2min noodles with frozen veggies for dinner :lol:
DF and I met on my 18th birthday in may 08. Kept contact as friends (we have all the same mutual friends). At the end of 08 we started dating, and 4 months in we got pg. DF moved in with me, and 7 or so months in we got engaged. We've now been together just over a year, and are TTC, and plan on getting married late 2010 - early 2011. I personally think living together is important, although it's not what every person should have to do. If they're the one, then they're the one, no matter where two people are at in their lives.
Also just wanted to add that it's awesome reading so many lovely stories about you guys and your partners :D makes me all mushy inside lol.
Met dh at work when I was 18.
Got together at the christmas party (same year) 2001.
Engaged 1wk before my 23rd birthday, 2006.
Procrastinated with the wedding stuff.
Found out we were pg early Dec 2006.
Married March 2007.
DS born Aug 2007
All in all - Together 8years, married almost 3yrs.
There are ups and downs, but I still fall in love all over again when he says or does something totally unexpected!:loveshower:
Kinda gives away my age, doesn't it? lol:rolleyes:
met over the ph early oct 1999
met in person 20th oct 99
officially dating new years eve 99
he found out he was moving mar 2000 although we had only been together such a short time he asked me to go with him, so april 2000 started living together
april 2001 engaged 1 yr 1 week after moving in together
oct 2001 married
so thur night is 1o years together we've had lots of ups and downs m/c IF the loss of katy but i stll love him like crazy but i would give my life for him
Awww...I'm loving this thread
Human bean what an awesome story!!!!
We met in Feb 2001. Dh was living in NZ at the time but was due to move to Syd March 2001.
So, we met when I was 15 and he was 18 (moved over on his 19th Birthday)
Started dating a month later. We lived 5 hours apart so did the long distance thing until I finished my HSC at the end of 2002.
I moved to Sydney the day after finishing my HSC and lived with friends as DH at the time didn't want to live together until we were married.
About 2004 DH had a meltdown and wasn't sure if I was what he wanted so broke up with me for about 6 months. I moved back home and told him if he wanted me back he knew where I lived and had allot of work to do to win me back.
After 6 -8 months of him visiting CONSTANTLY, phone calls, apologies, etc etc, I gave into his charm (and the fact I NEVER stopped loving him) and moved back to sydney.
We moved in together at the begining of 2005 found out 2007 we were expecting number 2, got engaged when I was 5 months pg, married this year (2009) and found out 3 days before the wedding we were expecting number 2.
All in all we have now been together for just over 8 years. Yes, we have had MAJOR ups and downs and all the time i have never stopped loving him and continue to fall more and more in love each day (even if he can't clean the bathroom properly LOL) I still continue to learn more about him and him about me, i don't think that will ever change and that is why I love being with him.
xxx