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To ask how long you were together before marrying if you've been married before?

17 replies

PoesyCherish · 22/10/2018 08:17

Just curious really. I know we're always advised to take it slow when there are DC involved.

If you have been married before and you're either engaged to be or are married again, how long were you together before the engagement / wedding?

OP posts:
BlueJava · 22/10/2018 08:20

There were 2 years between getting the ex "out of my hair" (i.e. divorce done, no ties, no longer upset) and meeting my current OH. Once we met we stayed together, we've not married though (together 20+ years and 2DS who are 16).

Batmanthedude · 22/10/2018 08:22

Dh was engaged with kids, We met 4 years after split. Moved in together after a year, has a baby after 3, married after 5

Isadora2007 · 22/10/2018 08:25

Erm...engaged after being together one month and knowing each other for almost 4 months. Married less than a year after meeting. I had two children from previous marriage.
11 years ago and counting 💕

FlirtyRomanticToast · 22/10/2018 08:28

12 years, we like to take things slow 😂

thegreylady · 22/10/2018 08:54

My dc and I had known dh3 for years. He was a friend and colleague of dh2. He was at dh 2’s funeral. He asked me out a year after that and we married 6 months later blending 5 teens into one family. 30 years later we are still one family with 9 dgc and some lovely in-laws.

sheldonstwin · 22/10/2018 08:57

met second DH and married 6 years later. It did take a while for him to work into the family dynamic for no particular reason but sometimes these things all take time. Married 8 years now.

MaryShelley1818 · 22/10/2018 08:58

I was married previously for almost 10yrs.
I left to be with current DP, we moved in together immediately, 6mths later I was pregnant, had DS last December and getting married this December. However I had known DP since going to school together.
Ex-DH is coming to our wedding, it’s all very amicable and lovely luckily.

thefishwhocouldwish · 22/10/2018 09:12

Split from exH Jan 2009, met DH Nov 2010, divorce came through in 2011, bought a house and moved in with DH August 2012, got married June 2016.

We partly married because we were planning to move to Dubai (and have since done so) as it's necessary for visa/legal purposes.

SkippedALightFandango · 22/10/2018 09:29

Together 14 years, engaged 5 years and still not set a date. We like to be sure 😂😂😂

mistermagpie · 22/10/2018 09:36

I split from DH#1 in 2011, divorce finalised in 2012. Got engaged to DH#2 in 2013 and married in 2014.

There were no kids involved though! I now have two with my DH. I also already knew DH#2, we had worked at the same place for years.

phantomofthenorthlaine · 22/10/2018 09:46

4 years.

operaha · 22/10/2018 09:46

Married H1 after 2 kids, had one more 5 years in and divorced eventually after 7 years married, 9 years together in 2008. 5 years later met now dh2. Married 3 years after that, which was 2016. No kids with dh2. Divorce looking likely for 2019 Sad

AlphaBravo · 22/10/2018 09:52

Oh no @operaha how come?? :(

Gottagetmoving · 22/10/2018 10:01

Met DP just after splitting with DH. DP had been separated for 18 months. We both had two children each with exes.
Dated for ten years then moved in together and have been together since then for 21 years.
No plans to marry.

operaha · 22/10/2018 10:05

@AlphaBravo I've actually posted about it in relationships Sad

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/relationships/3401036-Am-I-having-a-mid-life-crisis

Firenight · 22/10/2018 12:14

10 years. No kids from the first marriages

motortroll · 22/10/2018 12:29

My husband split with his ex wife at Xmas. We got together in the summer. The following summer we got engaged and married the following feb. So couple of years altogether. She got married again the week after us but was engaged within 6 months of the split.

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