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Marriage - has ship sailed?

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EagerGreenShaker · 19/03/2026 17:48

When it comes to getting engaged and marriage, is there such a thing as too late?

We have been together about 15 years and still not even engaged.

The dream was always to get married and have a special day. Over the years, we’ve never had the money to do the marriage thing as only one of us has been able to work due to health issues and wanting to buy a home first.

We’ve now bought our home and have our kids but just feels that we’re late to the party and that everyone else around us has already done it even though they’ve been together a lot less time.

We do have 2 couples who are one friends and other family who have just got engaged and will do a full blown lavish wedding. We don’t have money for doing anything big and don’t have many family or friends to invite with many important family members having passed away over the last 15 years. I feel even if we were to get engaged now, it would just be overshadowed by those other 2 couples and as much as say would not do it, I feel everything would become a comparison.

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