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How long until you moved in together?

49 replies

Molly2008 · 13/10/2024 20:11

If you're over 30 how long until you moved in with your partner?

OP posts:
okayhescereal · 13/10/2024 20:15

Just under a year and a half.

Matildahoney · 13/10/2024 20:16

3.5 years.

Clearinguptheclutter · 13/10/2024 20:18

It was about a year, but somewhat sooner than it would have been because his lease was coming to an end and he needed to go somewhere. Meanwhile I needed a lodger :-). We bought a house together the following year and married the year after that!

thursdaymurderclub · 13/10/2024 20:20

we actually never lived together until 9 months AFTER we got married!

Pottingup · 13/10/2024 20:21

A bit over 18 months. Bought a flat together 6 months after that and got married 15 years and various children later

Spagettifunction · 13/10/2024 20:24

When we got married two years of dating

don’t think it was a great idea but we are still married 15 years later. I wouldn’t recommend not living together (we didn’t even spend weekends together)

Cheeesus · 13/10/2024 20:25

3 months. Been together 20 years now.

Newtrix · 13/10/2024 20:44

8 weeks.

mindutopia · 13/10/2024 21:24

Just shy of 3 years. We had immigration issues to sort out to make it possible. It was 3 months before we got married.

blackcatsblackcats · 13/10/2024 21:25

We moved in after 8 months. Together 16 years now and married for 12 of those.

Berlinlover · 13/10/2024 21:30

We moved in together last Christmas after I was diagnosed with cancer. We were together three years at that point. If I hadn’t been diagnosed with cancer we probably wouldn’t have moved in together yet.

RowdyTiel · 13/10/2024 21:31

2 years.

Candaceowens · 13/10/2024 21:31

The day after our wedding day. 4 years.

AnnaMagnani · 13/10/2024 21:34

Got married after 1 year. He moved in 2 years after that.

Don't do that, it was nuts! A bit late to discover you can't stand each other when you've already been married 2 years...

Still, worked for us.

Oldermumofone · 13/10/2024 22:00

A couple of months - felt right at the time and still does ten years in but we did probably fall into being an old married couple quite quickly so it depends what you want your relationship to be.

GettingStuffed · 13/10/2024 22:06

Met in June had moved in by October, we never made a conscious decision though it just happened

Mybusyday · 13/10/2024 22:22

We bought our house 4 months after meeting

CSR721 · 13/10/2024 22:23

A year pretty much to the day as my tenancy was ending and I didn't want to renew it. We met the day I signed the lease haha

Nourishinghandcream · 13/10/2024 22:25

Moved in together 6-months after meeting. Married 18-months later.
That was over 30-years ago

MaJoady · 13/10/2024 22:27

I suppose we never officially have!

We just gradually spent more and more time together until every night was either at his or mine. Four years in (and a marriage later), we predominantly stay in one house, but still keep things at the other house (in a different town) and every few weeks spend a few nights over there. Like a mini holiday without having to pack. Our belongings have just gradually migrated across the two places.

BewitchedBotheredandBewildered · 13/10/2024 23:56

About 6 weeks.

40th anniversary next year ...

if we make it that far!

Osirus · 14/10/2024 00:25

Seven months.

Sunrise1815 · 14/10/2024 01:13

Myself and my partner have been together four years and still don't live together. I'm 54, she's 62. We live a 15 minute walk from each other.

EconomyClassRockstar · 14/10/2024 01:15

I've lived with DH from the day we met 30 years ago. But if I was over 30 and in a new relationship, I probably wouldn't do that!

GrandTheftWalrus · 14/10/2024 01:37

Met August 2014, he moved in Feb 2016, had our first in November 2016!