re: How long did you date your SO before tying the knot?

7 years and still haven’t taken the plunge

3 years. Mostly due to a 1 year stint of long distance while I finished undergrad.

In gonna be forever single, who else is with me?

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2 months. Because we didn’t date for long, not many believed that our marriage would make it past a year, but here we are 27 years and two grown kids later and still gettin’ it.

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Congrats! That's no easy feat, but I like to think it's worth it.

As for us, we dated for 2-ish years (minus a brief intermission ) before we got engaged. Got married 10 months later, so all told it was just over 3 years from first date to wedding.

In hindsight I feel like we were too young to get married even when we did, and if our kids want to get married someday I hope they wait until they have a little more life experience. But I can't say it didn't work out for us, considering we're still happy and in it for the long haul 18 years later.

I met Mrs 19 at work in 2000...met up again, both with different companies in Oct 2002, first date was that weekend, married Jan 3, 2003.
Still going 15 years and two little 9.5s later...

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but here we are 27 years and two grown kids later and still gettin’ it.

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Pics?

My brother dated his girl for 10 years before marrying her. Jesus Christ he really wanted to make sure it was going to work out before he took the plunge. Their damn house they bought was half paid off before their wedding vows were exchanged LOL

Met in the middle of May, proposed on Jan 1, married at the beginning of July. We've been married just under 4.5 years but are solid as a rock.

Normally such a quick turn-around doesn't work out but we are both a bit older than the average newlyweds and thus were more settled (first marriage for both of us). We both knew what we were wanting in a mate and were fine with remaining single until/unless we found what we were each looking for in another person.

1 year dating and 1 year engaged. Married 27 years.