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I would say one to two years. I always worried it would be like being a new kid at school until the next new kid moves in.
ETA: Although I'm not married yet the 1-2 years is average from what people in my family say about it.
I always thought a year, but SO and I had a conversation about this the other day and couldn't figure it out, either. So thanks for asking! :P
I've always heard one year, but I like to think you are newlyweds as long as you feel like it!
Until the first fight.
That's what I've ALWAYS been told. The honeymoon is over when you have your first fight.... not sure if that's a regional thing or a generational thing, though....
In my head a year sounds about right, but DH and I have been married for five months and I totally don't feel like a newlywed anymore. We've settled in together like a pair of old shoes; feels like we've already been married for years :)
I had always heard it was one year, but on The Newlywed Game (obviously, the final arbiter of all things marital), couples were allowed on the show up to two years after their wedding.
I've heard a year. But we've been married a year and a half and have a new baby, and I still feel like a newlywed :)
i went with two years because we hadn't lived together before marriage and we were young, so I definitely still felt newlywed two years in!
@Neva: I also thought it was a year and I was about to source the Newlywed game although I am not sure if you are watching a current version. I thought the game in the 90s only allowed couples who had been married less than a year. Clearly TV is where all standards come from :)
I was just thinking about this last week because my Twitter profile says "Newlywed" in it but we just had our 1 year anniversary. However, we still completely feel like newlyweds, both in the "honeymoon" feeling and feeling like we are still total newbies at this marriage thing!
I've passed the 1 year mark and still consider myself a newlywed. But after our second anniversary I'm sure no one else will consider us newlywed's at that point.
@slicey19: I'm using the rules of the original 1970s game. I always preferred watching the reruns of the old episodes..mostly to laugh at the clothes and the hairstyles. I didn't realize they changed it to one year, but that would make sense.
i had a coworker tell me that i was a newlywed until the next person we know got married....but of course he said knowing someone we work with was getting married in June, 2 months after me! so i was like, um, no, i am still a newyled, you cant take that away from me just yet!
@Zinzerena: I've heard that too, but I think it's more of a cautionary "we know better than you, just wait until the first fight and see how lovey you're feeling then" thing. If we had stopped at the first fight, I think we would've stopped being newlyweds 5 days into our honeymoon. So I'm definitely not going with that. I'm really emotional and DH shuts down when he's stressed, so most of our fights are about me being upset that he doesn't want to be lovey with me. Occasionally also housework. But at any rate, I still consider us newlyweds (2 1/2 months in) despite the fact that we've had a couple big fights already.
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DH asked me last night and I had no idea!