How long were you dating your partner before you got married?

[aquarius673]

Was having a conversation with my cousin about how long you should date someone before you consider marriage and wondered about other people's experiences. I've heard about people getting married after only months of dating and still together years later and people who waited years to get married and have ended up divorced!

Three years before marriage
We did split up , briefly , during that time
Been married over thirty years now.

10 years to the day, that was over 20 years ago now.

Yeah I agree! We were 18 when we met, 20 when we got together and were at uni and then finding our feet working so any quicker would have felt a bit rushed, but I can imagine if we met later would have moved in and married much quicker.

Met in the March
Married in the August
Been married 23 years this August

He is a much nicer person than I am
I wouldn’t put up with me for 23 years 😂

Oh and he came home with me that night and never really left 😂

Six and a bit years for us. We've been married for 19 years.

8.5 years, and we are heading towards our 30th wedding anniversary. Engagement was only 6 months though.

3.5 years together before we got engaged then was another 1.5 year before we got married.

Been together 13 years, married 8

Five years - but then I was only 14 when I met DH. 50 years married next year.

3 years dating while enjoying our own space, 10 years living together. Now 19 years married. So 32 years together! 😱

Both on the same page throughout, never engaged, no proposal, decided we needed to do it for legal reasons when 7 wks pg and married 3 weeks later. Don't celebrate (or most years even remember) our wedding anniversary.

10 months

Four years but he moved in three weeks after we met, that was 20 years ago

2 years

7 years

About a year and a half, but we'd been friends for years before getting together

Lived together after 6 weeks(!), engaged after 20 months, married at 23 months. Still married now (just under 5 years), with two children. I was in my 30s and DH early 40s when we married.

Just over two years. We've been married for nearly 16 years.

30 years, and still counting.

Moved in together after 10 months.

2 years, divorce pronounced 43 years later after 3 years of separation.

Engaged at 10 months and married at 22 months, married 5 years now

Two years to the day.

We met in early January and married at the end of August. First child was born the following July.

That was 18 years ago and I wouldn't change a thing.

Three years.

Married 13 months after first meeting. That was 33 years ago.

Oh, and 1st child born before 1st wedding anniversary.

6 years