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How many of you moved in as soon as you met each other and are you still together?

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fairyfly · 02/05/2007 18:00

Did it work even though you moved too quickly?

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Califrau · 02/05/2007 18:39

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hertsnessex · 02/05/2007 18:39

we moved in together after 6wks, 7yrs on we have two kids and are still together

cx

gothicmama · 02/05/2007 18:40

you need to think about the boys have you asked how they think /feel about it all

fairyfly · 02/05/2007 18:40

Yeh, i'll definitly cope. I'm going for something different this time, being adored more than i adore him. May sound wrong but i have had enough pain and i don't want any more.

It wouldn't be straight away as i don't want to move into the house he owns so he wil have to rent it.

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fairyfly · 02/05/2007 18:43

The boys are happy because i am loved, that's all it takes with them. They just want me to be happy. Also he knows exactly how to treat them as he is a tutor and has a psychology degree. I
love the way he uses positivity to teach them.

He reminds me of myself.

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gothicmama · 02/05/2007 18:45

do what you feel is right inside no-one else knows that and that is what matters

fairyfly · 02/05/2007 18:46

It feels right to let him love us.

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Surfermum · 02/05/2007 18:47

I'd known dh for a few months, having met when I joined his lifeguard club. The club went away for the weekend and he and I and a third person were put in a room together. The chemistry just hit, he gave me a lift home from the minibus when we got back and ..... well, he's never been home since.

We've now been together 9 years, married for 7.

Smurfgirl · 02/05/2007 18:50

I lived with my dp before going out with him (housemates as students) so we have lived toegther from day 1 I can't imagine it any other way.

fairyfly · 02/05/2007 19:02

I think when it comes down to it you can be cautious and wait for years but then still split up. Theres not a formula for success and i am going to just go for it. I am going to enjoy being looked after for the first time in my life.

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gothicmama · 02/05/2007 19:04

congrats I wish you well just remember never to take him for granted

PeachyChocolateEClair · 02/05/2007 19:05

Pretty much- first date on 17th Dec, joint tenancy ( ) by 16th january- been together every day in the middle but I ahd been still in the ex's spare room- enaged 14th Feb, PG 11th march (DH's birthday) baby 3rd Dec, married 11th amrch (back to the birthday LOL) and still together and happy after 7 years. They ran a book on our engagement at work (where we met) maximum we got was six months

chilledmama · 02/05/2007 19:06

Met DH at work (I know, how dull and predictable), spent our Summer leave together at his place...didn't move back out!
We've been together 7 years, married 4 years.

fairyfly · 02/05/2007 19:06

I think everyone has moments of taking each other for granted, i shall try though. I wouldn't want to hurt him, i have been honest with him for that reason.

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turquoise · 02/05/2007 19:07

Have you met his friends and family FF? Because it does sound fantastic, and I think when it's really right you know pretty fast and don't hang around - but I'd give it a bit longer, if it was me.

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fairyfly · 02/05/2007 19:16

hmmmm, i am answering my own thread.......... i don't have the best judgement though.

No i don't know his family, but i met him through one of my bestfriedns boyfriends, they have known each other all their lives.

i am meeting people this weekend, i have explained he has been in my world and before i can make any decisions i have to see his.

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sykes · 02/05/2007 19:23

FF, are you around later for a chat or sometime over the weekend. You so deserve to be happy and he sounds thoroughly decent but it's a huge move so soon, isn't it? Isn't it better to wait for six months and enjoy the romance and dating etc? Let everybody get really used to each other, not just the first few blissfull weeks/months? I really don't want to bring you down and so hope it works out, it just might. But wouldn't it be wiser to tread carefully and make sure it's right, well as sure as you can be ......

tegan · 02/05/2007 19:27

I was with dh 2 months when we moved in together, 6 months later we bought our house, 2 weeks after moving in found out I was 6 weeks pg and are now 10 years on married with dd1 9 yrs and dd2 3 yrs so it worked for us.

fairyfly · 02/05/2007 19:27

I am just going to follow my instinct, if its a mistake it's a mistake. I want to just take a huge gamble. Thats what life is for. I believe for once it will work out.

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PeachyChocolateEClair · 02/05/2007 19:31

Think that every relationship has its own pace, they key is to find that. there's no right or wrong bar that imo. Chap I was with before DH, I was with 5 years, living together, enageged and then we split! best thing is to go with what feels right.

sykes · 02/05/2007 19:32

Well, you have to do what makes you happy and I do think some risks are worth taking but I would be more cautious and enjoy six months of getting to know him. But I'm incredibly old and boring. Lots of luck and hope you're really happy.

HelloMama · 02/05/2007 19:36

I met DH in APril, we moved in together in November that year (were practically living together before that TBH), engaged the following April and married that September. I knew within 2 weeks we would be together forever and I still hope thats the case 8 years on!

Bagpuss30 · 02/05/2007 19:39

DH and I decided to buy a house 3 months after meeting. I upped sticks and moved from the South to Cheshire leaving my job, friends and family a month later. We married almost a year to the day of meeting and have been together 11 years and married for 10. Things haven't always been plain sailing but we are a team.

If it is meant to be then it is meant to be - plenty of people were worried about us initially but we proved them wrong and have 3 children to show for it too .

princesscc · 02/05/2007 19:44

Yep, dh moved in with me the night after we met. Although not officially. He gave his mum his rent at the end of the month and she said 'hadn't you better give it to xx!'

Still together 17 years later, married for 16!