http://boards.weddingbee.com/ Weddingbee Boards Topic: How long were you together before you got the itch? en Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:22:15 +0000 http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-together-before-you-got-the-itch/page/3#post-454989 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:36:50 +0000 mouse 454989@http://boards.weddingbee.com/ <p>I started hoping he would propose after we'd been together for about three years.&nbsp; I was 24 at the time.&nbsp; I think it had more to do with people I knew gettin engaged even though they hadn't been dating as long.&nbsp; Now that I look back on it, I'm surprised at how badly I wanted to get engaged!</p> http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-together-before-you-got-the-itch/page/2#post-454983 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:31:04 +0000 cannotwait 454983@http://boards.weddingbee.com/ <p>I wanted to get engaged badly a little over a 1.5 yrs. into our relationship.&nbsp; He was 30 and I was 28 at that point, and he proposed about 5 mos. later, on our 2 yr anniversary.&nbsp; We were 29 &amp; 31 when we married.</p> http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-together-before-you-got-the-itch/page/2#post-454979 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:22:55 +0000 mngf 454979@http://boards.weddingbee.com/ <p>I'm 26.&nbsp; Been with boyfriend for about a year and a half.&nbsp; Started getting itchy a couple of months ago.&nbsp; It's weird - I don't really want to be married right now or even engaged (I am in graduate school, which consumes my life!)...I just want to know for certain&nbsp;that it's in the cards.&nbsp; I love boyfriend completely, he's a wonderful man, and I want to spend the rest of my life with him -- BUT he's such a slow mover that he makes me look like a fast mover (and I was pretty slow-moving before I met him).&nbsp; I wanted to wait to have the discussions until he started talking about it, to be sure that it was something that he really wanted for himself, that it wasn't just me pressuring him into it.</p> <p>...yeah, that didn't happen.&nbsp; He never brought up any kind of a future, ever, throughout the whole first year.&nbsp; Which I got upset about.&nbsp; I know he loves me, but I just felt like he wasn't all that serious about me in the long run.&nbsp; So I brought it up.&nbsp; And he says, "yeah, I want that for us someday", and I believe that he's sincere about it.&nbsp; But he takes absolutely no initiative in moving the relationship forward at all, so I'm concerned.&nbsp;</p> <p>Waiting bees, am&nbsp;I crazy to be worrying about something I don't even want just yet?&nbsp; Am I&nbsp;rushing things?</p> http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-together-before-you-got-the-itch/page/2#post-454536 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:06:46 +0000 iggies 454536@http://boards.weddingbee.com/ <p>i started getting interested in marrying my boyfriend after the 2 year mark, when 4.5 years rolled around and a few of my friends were getting engaged i started getting annoyed and mentioning it a lot. we've been together 5.5 years now and he still hasn't proposed. there have been a few times where i learned about people getting engaged that have been together for a year or 2 and i just lost it. we've been living together for the past 4 years, so i guess it doesn't help that i feel like we've been married, but without the celebration.</p> http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-together-before-you-got-the-itch/page/2#post-454526 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:57:03 +0000 trugem 454526@http://boards.weddingbee.com/ <p>We met at 17 and I knew that he was the one from the start, but I didn't get the itch until about 3 years later&nbsp; because I knew that we would have to graduate from college first. Now at 6yrs 4 months, I feel like I am about to go insane. lol</p> http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-together-before-you-got-the-itch/page/2#post-436880 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:31:50 +0000 grace8367 436880@http://boards.weddingbee.com/ <p>Me- 8 months, him- 10 months.&nbsp; I think he had a year stuck in his head so it took him a little longer to come around!</p> http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-together-before-you-got-the-itch/page/2#post-436875 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:28:21 +0000 yrret107 436875@http://boards.weddingbee.com/ <p>I got the itch about 6 years after we were dating.&nbsp; I know seems long but we meet when we were both in high school and then continued dating while we were in college.&nbsp; It wasn't until we broke up for about 9 months and got back together, did I realize I watned to be with him.&nbsp; Also, I think during high school and college, I really didn't know what was going to happen between us.&nbsp; I wasn't sure if we were going to drift apart or find someone else.&nbsp; He graduated and then I graduated and I wasn't sure where I was going to find a job. But I found one close to him.&nbsp; Then after we were engaged, there was the next step... which was whether or not he would move across the country with me for my job.&nbsp; He did and here we are 4 weeks before our wedding.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Wow, I don't think I've ever realize how much me and my FH has been through for the past 9 years now.</p> http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-together-before-you-got-the-itch/page/2#post-436852 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:17:27 +0000 LatteLove 436852@http://boards.weddingbee.com/ <p>We're both in our early twenties and knew we were only dating if we saw marriage in the future, so in a way, we had the itch from the get go (and we were friends first)</p> <p>I probably got the engagement itch after a year of dating.&nbsp; I was proposed to a couple months later.</p> http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-together-before-you-got-the-itch/page/2#post-436788 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:52:02 +0000 MsWhiskersLouise 436788@http://boards.weddingbee.com/ <p>Adrndack, love that you call him 'partner.' You sound like a cool chick :)</p> http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-together-before-you-got-the-itch/page/2#post-436775 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:47:05 +0000 adrndack 436775@http://boards.weddingbee.com/ <p>guess i'm an oddball here...i'm 33 (almost 34) and my partner is 32.&nbsp; we've been dating since 2002, moved in together in 2003 and bought a house together in 2005.</p> <p>not <em>once</em> in that time did we discuss getting married.&nbsp; nor did i get "the itch".</p> <p>i guess we knew we would be together forever.&nbsp; maybe it's because neither of us want children?&nbsp; i don't know.</p> <p>i <em>can</em> say that getting married started to get tossed around playfully (albeit very rarely) about a year ago, but i was still extremely surprised when i saw the ring last month!</p>