To ask at what stage you’d want to be in a 7 year relationship?

[MrsSpringWater]

Just that really. 7 years into a relationship. Mid 20s to mid 30s age group. Where would you want to be ? Married? Kids? Travelling the world? Making memories?

Married with kids personally, but it depends on the person doesn’t it? One of my friends isn’t married and does lot have kids, but has been with the same man for about 40 years! There’s no set way to do things.

*and does NOT have kids, I meant to type

Mid 20s to mid 30s is too broad an age group to really say.
Mid 30s I would want to have had my first child.
Mid 20s I would want to be travelling!

I think it depends mid 20’s to mid 30’s Is a huge difference. Mid 20’s making memories saving money for a house working way up career. Mid 30’s as a female I would be more worried about fertility.

I also think it depends on the couple, for me marriage has never been a top priority, for others it is. Some people dislike traveling. People have different opinions on making memories, some need to travel the world do extreme sports, others are happy with local attractions.

I guess after 7 years I would want commitment, knowing we had the same ideals and goals.

Too young for kids I'd want to be enjoying developing my career and making the most of travel opportunities that came up. A partner would be equally busy but up for adventures. Marriage would be a maybe, but only for the certificate, I'd have hd better things to do with my money at that age

Anywhere in my 20s, going out lots, travelling, enjoying life.

Once my 30s kicked in I was ready to settle down.

Enjoying each other. I wasn’t ready for children until I reached 35

Married with kids, but that's where I am now, I wouldn't want it any other way.

Married, certainly. We also had our first baby 6 years in.

10 years in for me and thought I'd be married by now but still no ring 🙈
We have a DC who we had after 7 years.
Not long into our 30s now.
We enjoy our holidays but travelling was never been an interest of ours.
We enjoyed going out in our 20s before our child came along.

Well 7 years in with my DH (met at 24) we were married and just had our first child. We lived/worked abroad from 25-29 then came back and ‘settled down’.
Another 5 years on we’re still married and have 3 children.

Dh and I met when I was 23, he was 25. Living together at 25/27. Engaged at 27/29. Married at 28/30. We've been married for 6 years now and have a 5yo and almost 1yo.
I feel like that it was all quite good timing, we had plenty of time to have fun and get to know each other.
So, 7 years after getting together we were married and our first son was 1yo.

When we had been together 7 years we were living in I think our third house together. We were 28 (me) and 25 (him). No kids and not married but had been living together about six years.

We met at 25/26. Bought a flat together after 4 years. Got engaged after 5 and married after 6. We had DS after 10 years together.

Married, no kids, travelling and generally hustling ;)

Post uni relationships I expect marriage within 4 years . Doesn't take that long to decide whether you want to be with someone long-term

Mid 20s working hard climbing career ladder. Holidays & saving money.

30ish marry & babies

Mid 30s working part time but still earning £££ thereby enjoying the benefits of previous promotions allowing a few years at a slower pace to enjoy family life.

Currently 7 years, not married, no kids, bought house together, have dog, joint bank account, adventures and holidays..long may it continue!

If we met mid 20s then by 7ywars I'd expect to be married with at least 1 child.

Married after 5 years together . First child 2 years later .

Mid twenties 7 year relationship, I'd want to be living together, committed, have a shared vision for where we're going, which would be marriage then kids, doing some traveling.

Mid thirties, married, have started TTC early thirties, hopefully first child, but no guarantees there.

Met aged 22- married at 26/27 after some belting holidays and bought a house- kids at 30 on purpose- we had 8 years really getting to know each other before the bomb of having a child- I think you really need to know each other inside out before committing to raising a child together. I know everyone is different and other ways of doing things work out but it worked out for us to do it this way- always been happy with DH.

We're 4 years in, married, bought house together, 1DC. I'm late 20's he's early 30's.

Depends on what you want in life tbh. I'd be miffed if nothing more than living together happened in 7 years but that's just me

7 years in with DH, I was married with a 4 year old and 11 month old baby.
I was 26

At seven years in with DH I was 31, owned a house and had been married for five years with two small children.

I met my DH when I was early 20s. After 7 years we were living together, had taken a year out to travel and were back in a city living a typical 20s lifestyle. I don’t even think we’d talked about marriage or kids at that point. If I’d met him at 30 I expect things would have progressed a lot faster