How long were you.....???

Love this thread!!

DH and I started dating JAN 08- after me chasing him for over a year :)
Moved in with him MAY 08
Engaged SEPT 08
Married JAN 09
First bubba due JAN 2010

Was with xBF for 1.5 years, got engaged, post poned the wedding, broke up after being engaged for 1.5 years.

Was with DH for 5 months, got engaged, got married 6 months later. We were married within 13 months of hooking up. Lived together for 1 month before we got married (unofficially). About to celebrate our 5 year anniversary in Jan. Tonight (NYE) was our 6th anniverasary together

Dh and I met Jan 14, started courting March 11, got engaged April 5 and got married August 4, all in the same year. Needless to say, our parents weren't impressed with the timing, but both sets have now said we make a good couple :)

I agree about the milestones different couples have to go through. I attempted suicide not long after we were married, DH was in a truck accident the day before our engagement party, we were so broke for our first year of marriage....then we've had to deal with infertility as well as my recurring depression and anxiety - my mum said to me recently that she was surprised DH not only stayed, but coped so well when I hit bottom. She had doubts about him before that, but now they're gone :)

DF & I met online in July 2003
Met IRL August 2003
Started officially dating in September 2003 (2 weeks after officially meeting IRL)
Had 1st child January 2008
Got engaged February 2008 (on Valentine's Day)

And still living in Sin :lol:

We plan to get married eventually, not in a rush though

We have been together for 7 years in two days. We moved in together after 8 weeks (spent every night together after 1 week), got engaged 15 months later, married when together for 2 1/2 years and are still madly in love with each other. I still get that feeling in my stomach when I see him.

DH and I were together about 2 years before we got engaged and then we married 2 years later. This year will be our 10th wedding anniversary. Of course it has not been without our dramas, whilst DH thinks we have been fine all the time, I have almost ended it numerous times.

We moved into together after about a year together, that was mainly due to us moving interstate. I think if we had stayed in Tas we would have lived separately for a bit longer. I was fine with the arrangement that we had, we spent most nights together splitting the time between our places.

DH and I have been married nearly 7 years, but together for almost 18 years. We got together when we were 16, and moved in together when we were 19.

i have know DH since i was 15 , he took me out on a date when i was 17 , worst most lameo date ever .

went over seas 2002 but still thought about him even tho i didnt want to :lol:

after heaps of knock backs from me i finally got the guilts and my mu made me ask him out "just for drinks " as id been so rude to him ( didnt think he was my type)

so june 2004 i asked him out ( i was 19)together for 5 months before we got engaged , moved in together after 3mths .

we were engaged 16mths before we got married in 2006 ( i was 21,8 wks pg with a planned baby:) )

been together 6.5 years , married 4 yrs this march !!

all up known him for 10 yrs and never once considered him as my soul mate , not with out our ups and downs either . but he sticks by me all the time , he is my hero :love:

XF - Got together Aug 2002, he proposed sometime in the 2nd half of 2003 - we never set a date for the wedding and everyone asked us when we were planning.. Well, for some reason, in my bones, I just couldn't set a date or plan anything.. We broke up so many times during the relationship that I think that's what did it. We broke up for good Dec 2005.

DH - Started talking online Feb 2006. I didn't like him at first and thought he was one of those people that was just trying to chat me up (we met on MySpace when that was the big thing) because of the private message he'd sent (still have it to this day!) I decided to ignore his message because of the above reason but kinda talked to him once every few days, not often though.. It wasn't till April 2006 (my birthday) that I talked to him more - I remember grilling him as to why he didn't say happy birthday to me.
Anyways, first met up in May 2006 (it was a couple weeks after my 21st birthday) and had a crush on him from the beginning
Kept meeting up during school holidays, though he went away for one of them - the first lot (hence the reason for him not wishing me a happy birthday)
Started meeting up quite a bit.
August 22nd 2006, he asked me to be his girlfriend
Moved in Dec 2006 to my (now) ILs house
BFP on June 27th 2007, lost the bub June 29th 2007
Proposed July 29th 2007
Got married January 10th 2009 - and just bout the celebrate our first anniversary! :D
Found out I was pg 3rd Feb 2009
DS was born 21st Oct 2009
So, we've been together a total of 3 and a half yrs :)

DH and I have been together since March 2002...engaged June 2007, had DD November 2007 and married October 2008.

So all up we were together 6.5 years before we got married, and been married now for just over a year - 8 years together coming up!

ETA: Having said that though, we were practically living together within 6 months and physically living together within 12 months...I knew I would spend the rest of my life with him in weeks, and our relationship has morphed so many times now I can barely keep up lol So wish your friends joy and happiness and let them work out the logistics ;)

DH and I met online (ironically both of us had decided to give dating in general one last and final chance!) in Nov 07... first date Nov 26th 07, I moved in March 08, found out I was preg with DS April 8th 08, got engaged 3 weeks later, bought our first house September 12th 08, DS was born Dec 23rd 08... and we just got married on Jan 16th 09... so we've almost hit 26 months together now :) We only had a $2,000 wedding too, beach weddings rock!

DH and I will have been together for 12 years this May. We met when I was 17 & he was 20. Moved in together after 1 and a half years, bought a house together at 4 years, got engaged at our house warning a few months later (also was my 22nd birthday by then), then married 5 months later- so almost been together 5 years. Started trying for children 2 years later...finally had our first son arrived a few weeks after our 10year together anniversary (and a couple of months after our 5 year wedding anniversary), next baby due any week/day now. And we're just as happy together today as when we first meet.

I had a friend who eloped & bought a house after 6months together- they broke up after 2years. But then I've got another friend who married her DH (much to everyones dislike) after 6 weeks and there somewhere in the 30 year mark being married.

So I guess it doesn't really matter how long you are together for before getting married. If its meant to be its meant to be. But it probably saves alot of money (and heartache) to 'try before you buy'.

DH and I had known each other for years but we didn't get together for about 3 years I think. Then we were together, our best surprise Bethany was concived and we had her it was about 12 mths after we got together he proposed (while we were driving to a funeral mind u, but thats another story) 9 mths later we were married. We r almost 4 years into our marriage now and doing great

DH and i were together 6 years before we tied the knot.
We were married on our 6th anniversary (of dating).
We have now been together going on 10 years this year :)

DH and I moved in together after 2 months. We didn't get engaged until after 6 years and we were married 4 months after we got engaged. We were married just before our 7 year anniversary and we've been married for 16 months now.