how long did you date before you were engaged/married?

Question

and do you think time matters....or you just know!!!

Curious

Answer 1

dated a year, engaged for 2 years, been married for 2 years

Answer 2

Dated 4 years, engaged for 1, married for 17 years...starting to think that she may be the one!

Answer 3

Dated two yrs, engaged the last 6 months of that. I definitely think time matters, Jump into something too quick, there may be too many surprises/personality quirks in store!!! I think yes, like you said, you may just know that someone is "the one" but a long engagement/dating period is always a good idea, no matter what!

Answer 4

We were together a year and 4 months before we were engaged, and our wedding is set for next august 08. We will have been together 3 years, when we get married.

I knew in the first 5 months, that I could see myself spending my life with him. I think its a case by case senario you know? Some people NEED time to get to know eachother... some just pay enough attention that they DO know each other. For us, we are both really in tuned to the other. Some people just know, I did, some others need time. It varies by personality and effort too.

Answer 5

2 and a half years. I think it is good to get to know the person before getting engaged or married.

Answer 6

Well I met my husband a year befor we even got together. We met at an underground race and from then on my friend and I basically hung out with him eveyday. I saw him as just a friend and nothing more in the beginning but the more we hung out with him the more i started to realize my developing feelings for him. I had thought he only saw me as a good friend and he felt the same way about me.
One night we were all goin to a club where my friend and her husband got in some big fight ( over something stupid) so me and my friend took off with Fred and my friend ended up going to talk to her hubby and i was suppose to stay with her that night but that didn't happen, my place was too far of a drive so Fred offered that I stayed over at his house, well when we got there we both just went to sleep. The next day he asked me if i would stay over again so i said yes, we watched movies and he put this one particular movie on called " IT" and he knew i was terrified of clowns, so i went over and sat with him and befor you know it he was holding me (LOL) he kissed me on my cheek and sort of whispered in my ear " I LOVE YOU", I looked at him he told me he has loved me since he first met me and of course i ended up telling him how i felt.
We dated like a week and while i was at work he asked me "What would you do if i asked you to marry me?" and i told him i didn't know. Well he decided to pick me up from work and we went out to dinner, in front of the whole restaurant he asked me to marry him:) A month later we were married. Still married to this day and very much in love..

They say that if you rush things, it won't work because you never gave it time to find out what the other person was about. Well, i think there wrong if you know deep down how you feel about this person and you know in your heart that they are the "ONE" and the other person feels the same way then time doesn't matter. Of course i could be wrong, i did know my husband for a year befor we got involved...
Though ask yourself, why rush things? if you know this person is the one, if you know you will be together forever then why would you need to rush things? Marriage is just a piece of paper, it doesn't make anything change, it doesn't make the love stronger. I see it as if you live with this person, if you have been with them for a long time then your already married, it's just not legally on a piece of paper and that's all marriage is!

Answer 7

i date my husband for 4 years but we had fights and had problems. we were taking break, but we got back together. I meet him the last half of my High school year.
We got engaged for few months only and got marry. my mom help plan the wedding, while i was in school.
now been marry for 3 years and love and miss each more each day and expecting our first child in few months :)

Answer 8

8 months dating before getting engaged. took one yr to plan wedding n call it off 2 wks before the date.
time in my opinion does matter cuz it takes TIME for you to get to know the person.
we're still together. just wkg on some of our issues
take your time. don't rush it cuz it'll hurt so much more when you realize you made a mistake

Answer 9

I don't think time matters.. it depends on the people.

we were together 2 years when we got engaged

we'll be together 4 years when we get married this September.

Answer 10

ive been with my husband since i was 15, we got pregant and married 5 years into our relationship, weve been married 2 years now, i dont really think time matters tough, even though i was young i knew he would be the man i would spend my life with within the first few months or so, good luck.