To all married or engaged?

We dated 18 months when we got engaged. We will get married this August 28 after a one year engagement.

Total of 3 years.

My husband and I dated for like 6 years before we got engaged and had an 18 month engagement. We have been married for almost 7 months. For some people it is important to live together first. My husband and i didn’t personally believe in living together without being married, which is why I think we dated so long before becoming engaged. Getting married at 16 or 17 is just insanity for so many reasons. I was 32 and my husband was 28 when we got married….we are both glad we waited until we were older…if we had gotten married when we were first dating, I’m not sure we would still be together. Neither one of us was mature enough at the time.

we were friends for 5 months.

we dated only 1 yr.

only engaged just over 6 months when we get married in june.

oh and we’ve been living together for almost a yr the end of the month.

we both had prior long lasting relationships that never went anywhere, so neither of us wanted that again. so we decided to have a short engagement and a long marriage!

the way i see it, it has to be 50/50 and i know when i was 16 it was 1 me and 0 him! i wanted it all, as do most teens and some young adults.

i was however engaged at 15 he was 18, and after a few months of living together realized the mistake i would be making! i don’t think that ‘kids’ as i was then should be engaged or even thinking seriously about getting married, they need to live life and enjoy being single for awhile! it’s 10 yrs later and i know what i want in life, and so does he.

We were engaged after 15 months together. The engagement will be 11 months total by the time we marry in August.

As far as living together…it works for some, not for others. For me, it works. But then again, I’m also mid 30s and did strike out all on my own for a while. I was with my ex boyfriend from 17-28 and we never married and didn’t lived together until the last year of the relationship – that was what it finally took to make me realize I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life with him.

As far as kids getting engaged after 4 months at age 16 – I think their parents dropped them on their heads as babies one too many times. There really should be an age limit on marriage quite similar to that on drinking…except an even higher limit for marriage. Those getting engaged so young, no matter how mature they may *think* they are…are just plain stupid and headed for disaster.

I am engaged and getting married 10/4/08. We have been together for 5 1/2 years, living together for the last 4 1/2.

We were together for 2 and a half years before we got engaged, we have been married for almost 6 months now. For me personally it was important that we lived together, but I would not say that is the case for everyone, I just needed to make sure we could actually live under the same roof without wanting to kill each other! Having already been through failed marriages I did not want to take any risks this time around, last chance saloon and all that!

I was 26 when I met my husband, we got engaged when I was 28 and married when I was 31. We lived together after 3 months of knowing each other. We have now been together 8 and a half years – married for nearly 4

My husband and I will have been together exactly 6 years tomorrow (yes our first date was on Valentines day…how cliche!).

We got engaged exactly 4 years and 3 months to the day of our first date (May 14th, 26)

We got married exactly 1 year and 3 months to the day of our engagement (August 14th, 27).

Something about the 14th that seems to be lucky for our us!!

I am a firm believer of living together before marriage…and this day in age it seems to be fairly commonplace. We lived together for about a year and then we bought a house together…and then we got married. People still keep asking me if married life is any different, and I always say no because it really is true. We owned a house, had joint bank accounts, owned a joint business, etc, etc. before we got married. Getting married was just a way to officially commit to one another.

People need to do what is right for them but I think the more you can do before you get married, the smoother the transition to married life will be.

We were together for 1 and half years before we got engaged, we were engaged for 2 years and we have been married for 4 years

We were together a little over 3 years when we got engaged, our engagement will be 9 months, and by the time we’re married we will have been together for 4 years (minus 10 days)