To ask how long you were with DH/DP before they proposed?

[Croccy1979]

I've had a couple of friends who've done it very quickly recently! Good for them
Just wondering what's average? Guess it depends on age.....

One year from first date. We were both 35.

Sorry, forgot the rest: Married one year after proposal, DD born the following year.

After a few months.

But I wish I'd never met him.

8 years. We lived at opposite ends of the country for years 2-6. Married a year later.

My grandparents - 3 hours. Married 3 weeks later.w

Oh, we were 19 when we met.

Less than 3 months between meeting and marrying, that was 5 years ago. It's been a learning curve!

started going out October 2006.

moved in together September 2007.

she proposed on the 29th Feb 2012

wedding booked for June 2013.

We've been together 3 years, and if we ever get married I'll be the one to propose.

3 months. Got married 16 months later. Recently had our 4th wedding anniversary.

Met autumn of 2011, engaged march 2012, married October 2012 baby due in July 2013. Together a little over a year when we where married.
Some people laughed but why waste time? I picked him up for our first date and new instantly he was the guy I'd marry.

In a 'I want to marry you one day' way - about 4 months after we started sleeping together dating.

Actually on one knee, set the date - after we had been together 2.5 years ish. DD was 1 & we married a year later.

Met in early May, we exchanged "I love you(s)" after a week! Got engaged at the end of July, found out I was pregnant a couple of weeks later. Was pushed into getting married before baby was born, so got married in February (9 months after meeting). DC1 was born in April. We separated 4 1/2 years later in October when DC2 was 4 months old, and divorced 2 1/2 years after that.

Everything moved very fast, except the divorce unfortunately

7 years. I wonder if it would have been longer but I had a meltdown on our 7th anniversary when some friends of ours got engaged- he proposed a month later and we got married 14 months later.

Bought a house together after 6 months, got engaged after 4 years together and married 6 months after engagement.

We got first together in 1986. Unfortunately I then went to uni, and met and married someone else after that. Got back together with DF in 2002, he proposed on 22/12/12, 10 years and two kids later.

Met Feb '96-I love yous a week later, marriage proposal a month later. Got married July'96. Still together and madly in love. We were both 22. Feel very lucky!

Well, we met in dec 97 and married three months later, so not long.
Although it wasnt a proposal as such, it just sort of happened. More of a why the hell not than anything else

He never did! Once we got to 4 years together I gave him an ultimatum, no marriage no babies so he said we'd better get married then. So it was never a proposal! I think he hoped my biological longing for a baby NOW would overrule my wish to be married, but I knew if I had a baby first he would drag his heels and probably never marry me. 4th anniversary coming up.

Told my friend the night I met my now DH...Thats the man I will marry.
Took him two years to propose.

Three weeks. He was 15 I was 16. That was 35 years ago.

My DP has pretty much told me he's going to propose next month in Paris. We will have been together 5 months but have talked about the practicalities of living together first.

We're both in our early 30s and have lived with other partners and this feels right. I have never even liked a man as much as him let alone loved someone and we did date last year very briefly (wrong time for both of us) as well as him being one of the oldest friends of my best mate.

Although it still sounds sort of bonkers

4 months. Married 18 months later. That was 13 years ago.

I'm very much 21st century woman with this sort of stuff. Whether or not we got married was a joint decision. We moved in together with a plan to marry when the divorces came through and did that. No on one knee stuff, it's as much my decision as his, same with my first husband. I wouldn't live with a man unless we intended to marry and definitiely wouldn't have kids before being married. I suspect if this marriage ends for some reason I'll just live on my own/ with the kids and have "dates/stopovers". I can't imagine having a serious relationship with the sort of man who saw whether or not to marry as solely his decision, different if neither of you cares about marriage but the passive girlfriend role sounds very 1950s.