How long have you been together before propsing?

[memo]

Been together with my girlfriend for almost 3 years but I will be waiting untill after all of our schooling/finding a job is done. Shes doing graduate school, I'm doing the finding. So I'm assuming we'll probably be together a good 5-6 years before proposal.

 

[Rapidskies]

25 years nothing less.

 

[farmercal]

I don't think I ever proposed (wife said I didn't) but we somehow ended up married. That was 25 years, three children and one grandchild ago. So I guess we did something right. I think getting your school out of the way before getting hitched is a good idea.

 

[dullard]

3 years, 358 days. Basically it was 1 week before our 4th year anniversary just to keep it a surprize. I voted 4 years since it was so close, it was a shame to lump me in with the 2 year croud.

 

[psydancerqt]

just over 6 months, but i dont have a catergory that fits that

 

[iamwiz82]

3 and a half years. Getting married here next June

 

[azazyel]

been together with my g/f for 6 years. Don't see any reason for the big M

www.nomarriage.com/

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: farmercal
I think getting your school out of the way before getting hitched is a good idea.

We waited nearly a full 5 years before we got married (about 1 year after I proposed as I poseted above). The wait was just so that I would have my BS degree. My the time we got married, I had decided to go back to school for a MS degree (and later a PhD). My wife was halfway through her BS degree when we got married.

Result: getting married while in school was the best financial thing we could have possibly done. If you are mature enough to handle marriage, then don't let school be the SOLE reason for delaying marriage. Yes that is a big 'if'.

 

[ThePresence]

Me give my heart to a woman?
Not for nothin, never happen
I'll be forever mackin'...

 

[Jzero]

Around 7 months, although I started shopping for rings around 4.

 

[TheAudit]

Three and a half years for me.

 

[Kraeji]

i got 99 problems but the B**ch aint one

 

[Monoman]

Originally posted by: ThePresence
Me give my heart to a woman?
Not for nothin, never happen
I'll be forever mackin'...

lol

 

[Encryptic]

6 months before proposing. Married for 2 1/2 years and still going strong.

 

[blackdogdeek]

8 months.

but we'd known each other for 6 years before we started dating.

 

[Hoober]

3 years. It was another 18 months before we got married.

 

[dquan97]

3yrs, plus 1yr engagement

 

[RossMAN]

3 years plus 2 years engagement.

 

[Asharus]

It's been 8 years since this past 4th of July, can't propose b/c of religous conflicts.

 

[bunker]

Originally posted by: Asharus
It's been 8 years since this past 4th of July, can't propose b/c of religous conflicts.

Is New York a common law state? If so, just live with her for I think 10 years then she's legally your common law wife .

It took me 7 years to propose. Had to make sure dammit .

 

[brtspears2]

Not quite there yet, but if I did, the money that could be saved. Auto insurance rates down, no need to pay rent for two places, two incomes fueling one household. Another plus, she does laundry!

Downsides - Gotta get rid of my 5'x3' Britney Spears poster, no more drinking, no more computer time. Marriage sounds financially good, but bad for my entertainment.

 

[DeeKnow]

3 days... well I was in a hurry (my vacation was running out) LOL!

 

[memo]

Originally posted by: brtspears2
Not quite there yet, but if I did, the money that could be saved. Auto insurance rates down, no need to pay rent for two places, two incomes fueling one household. Another plus, she does laundry!

Downsides - Gotta get rid of my 5'x3' Britney Spears poster, no more drinking, no more computer time. Marriage sounds financially good, but bad for my entertainment.

no more drinking? :thumbsdown:

 

[Bryophyte]

We were married about 5 months from our first date. He moved in with me (moving a few hundred miles in the process) by a couple weeks after that first date. Don't recall who brought it up, but it wasn't a proposal, just a mutual agreement. Seems fast, but we'd known each other for around 24 years, and had tried (unsuccessfully) to date in high school about 9 or 10 years earlier.

 

[DBL]

Originally posted by: bunker

Originally posted by: Asharus
It's been 8 years since this past 4th of July, can't propose b/c of religous conflicts.

Is New York a common law state? If so, just live with her for I think 10 years then she's legally your common law wife .

It took me 7 years to propose. Had to make sure dammit .

Nope, NY is not a common law state.