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So the "how long before he proposed/you were married" thread had me wondering...how long before you moved in together? I realize some bees haven't yet, so that's accounted for too. :) Some of the numbers are pretty arbitrary, lol, but yeah.
We dated for about three and a half years before we got married and then moved in together. Some of my friends had me totally freaked out about it, too, by saying that everything changes when you move in together. We do have a few more disagreements and life is definitely different, but it wasn't a bad transition at all! (sorry, bit of a tangent, that's just what I always think about when people talk about moving in!)
Less than 6 months, but it all started with some pretty bad snow storms. It snowed alot within a month, my car then didn't have front wheel drive, and I worked right across the street. He just kept telling me to stay then all of a sudden I was there several months and no point in going home after that, LOL. We just went one day and got all my stuff. I always make fun of him that he just liked someone making his breakfast and having dinner ready when he got home, he could of hired a chef instead of getting a wife - would have been cheaper - Bahaha (we think its funny)
We had been dating for 9 months when we moved in together. It sounds so fast to us now! haha. But it obviously worked out. We dated for another 2-ish years after that before he proposed and bought a house together this past summer when we'd been together about 4 years. We're just odd. :) It's funny. We're like, "We've been dating ~4 years and living together for ~3 years. Holy cow."
@tksjewelry: Haha, ours was a lot the same. Out of convenience and also practicality. We were in college (aka poor, lol) and figured why pay rent in two places when we spent all our time together? My parents were cool with it because they liked FI (then BF) and felt I was safer since I lived with a man.
We didn't live together until we were married. Would have been more convenient, but we had a variety of reasons not to. We got married quickly enough, anyway ( <2 years).
We're not yet married (hopefully we'll be engaged soon!) but we moved in together after only 6 months of being together.. However, we were very close for about a year. It was not fully intentional, just worked out best for both of us to get a place together. Two years later and we are both ridiculously happy we made that decision!!
Well, we lived in different states for nearly 2 years while we were dating. But my guy drove back and forth from Moline IL to Omaha NE twice a month for that entire time, and I made several trips by train to see him, too. After a while it was just ridiculous, and we realized that one of us had to make a move. For a while we discussed him moving to Omaha, because I owned a home and he rented-but he had the better paying job and had been with his company 13 years, and also his parents were still alive and elderly, and lived 30 miles from him and not in the best of health. So, in the end, I put my house up for sale, and the minute I had an offer (an agonizing 4 months later) I put in my notice at work and moved to Moline-where I've been ever since. It has been an adjustment, but very well worth it. We've lived together about a year and a half and engaged for a year of that. Getting married in just over 4 months time now.
@soexcited: Oh yes, we don't regret it AT ALL. It has only made us closer. I love living with him...though he can be a PITA sometimes. ;)
I voted 6 months- 1 year. It was probably about 8 months, DH wanted me to move in sooner than that and I was a little nervous about it. I kind of slowly just started bringing stuff to his house... toothbrush, clothes (randomly) some bathroom products, and eventually I was moved in. lol
We've lived together now for over 5 years. :)
We moved in together after about 9 months of officially being together, however only about a month and a half of that was spent together. He's in the military and was deployed a month after we started dating so when he finally came home we figured we had spent enough time apart and decided to move in together. We lived together for two years before getting married.
We moved in together just under 5&1/2 months! A lot of it was convenience though, we lived an hour apart, and I didn't have a car, so he was always driving to see me, and sometimes bringing me to his place at night and back in the morning. (wow, right?!)
I got a car right at our 5 month mark, and a few days before Valentine's Day he handed me his key and told me that I should make a copy if I wanted to move in :)
(we had talked about it, but hadn't set anything into motion yet. A big contender had been me getting my own wheels, because I'd have to be driving to work, which was near my old apt.)
We didn't move in together until we lived abroad together. (We were saving money by staying with our respective parents.) So that was from ... 2002 to 2007. 5 years!
We moved in to our own place together after 18 months, doesn't sound a lot, but we were staying over all the time in between our parents houses, so it was just a natural step to get out on our own and away from both, haha
Don't live together due to logistics. However, we plan on moving in together when I graduate so it will be between 2-3 years. Ideally, I would like to be engaged before that happens. I should probably tell him that.
ETA I should say that we do spend a fair amount of time at each others place, so we do have fights about "the home" it's just not "ours" lol.
We started dating in college, so I was in school for 3 years, then lived at home for a year, then moved in together. this is our 3rd year living together, and we just got married last month.
Like 2 months! It happened pretty quickly. My friend and I had just moved into our first apartment and DH (then BF) had been spending a lot of time there. After a few weeks of sleeping there every night, he decided to move in. That was almost 7 years ago.
We purchased our home when we had been together for only 11 months, but it wasn't built yet so when we actually moved in together we'd been together 1 year, 8 months and we've lived together now for 1 year, 7 months.
We haven't moved in together yet but we will next September! At that point we will have been together 8 1/2 years... We are only 21/22 though and still at university so that's why it's so long. We're moving in together after graduating this coming summer. Can't wait! :)
We moved in at about 6 months... maybe less. We were in different states and it was just easier. It's been over 3 years now and we get married in 3 months. It was very quick but when you know you know :)
We have been together for 6 1/2 years and are just moving in together next month. We started dating in high school and then we went to seperate colleges and after graduating I have been waiting for him to start his full time job, I hate how long government jobs take to start.
tecnically - not until we were married. I stayed the night as his house more often then not but we both had a place of our own until we go married. We had been dating just over 2 years when we tied the knot.
We dated for 1.5 years, moved in together, he finally proposed after being together for just over 4 years... :)
We started dating officially in September 2010, he proposed in June of 2011 and we moved in together in July 2011.. everything has been going well so far. We did get in a big fight about where/how to hang the curtains about a week ago... but nothing major haha!
We dated for 2 years while I was in college, so moving in together wasn't really an option until I graduated. The day I got my diploma, I packed up and moved to his apartment! I never even stopped back at my parents'!
Haha, we officially moved in together after 2 years but unofficially after one day. We met in college, and the day after we started dating, he spent the night at my place (nothing happened, for the record! lol) and just never left. With my friends in college, it was pretty common for SO's to just "live" with their mate - which was really just sleeping, since you were on campus all day with classes and activities. It wasn't really living together in the sense that cooking was irregular and difficult due to roommates, and not a lot of time was spent in the apartment anyway. After doing this "unofficial" living together in college for 2 yrs, we officially got an apartment together after graduation. And THAT was when the typical fights began, haha! About chores, bills, etc ;) I voted 2 years, though you could argue.. 1 day.
Technically, we moved in together about 2.5 years into our relationship... but in college, we practically lived together. He had an apartment junior & senior year, but I think slept in it about 2 nights a month.
8 years together, engaged on our 7 year anniversary, still don't live together (although currently house shopping).
We moved in together after we got married but that was only 9 months after we met.
On our two month anniversary.
Crazy, I know, but it wasn't planned that way. He and I had been in a group of 5 friends who had been looking for a house for a while to live in together while in college to help with rent. We ended up finding that house about a month and a half into the relationship. Due to my work schedule, he moved in a few days earlier than I did and when I finally got all my stuff moved in one day, we were laying on my bed watching tv, and I started laughing. He asked me what was so funny, and I said "Happy two Month Anniversary, baby. We just moved in together." It was kind of a wierd realization. We decided we must be crazy to live together so soon into our relationship, but we had already been close friends for 3 years before that, and it ended up working out great. We had to deal with a lot of annoyances in living together VERY early on into our relationship, and it was rocky for a while, but we learned how to work together, and it definately contributed to our "early" engagement. We didn't live alone just the two of us until after we were engaged and graduated.
We moved in together after 3 months! I know it sounds crazy to some (and i'd never done anything like that before), but it's been over a year now that we've lived together, and it's been absolutely wonderful the whole time. We balance each other out so well, we have two of the best dogs in the world together, and the best part of our days is being able to come home, make dinner together, relax with the dogs, and being able to fall asleep in each others arms and kissing each other goodbye in the morning.
We dated for about a year, then slowly I started staying over on the week-ends, then started brining my clothes over. His grandmother ended up in the hospital so I stayed with him and his family to help out if needed. When she passed away I was pretty much staying there full time, but was still paying rent on my appartment. We then just made the decision that instead of paying for a place that I'm not even there to just move in with him and save money. Best decision I ever made!
@tksjewelry: Our move in was very similar to this. I lived closer to where he worked than his parents. Gas money and a big truck wasn't helping him sleep and I loved him being there so much. I did, however, demand that he either conciously choose to live with me or not. I couldn't take the vague-ness of the "we practically live together."
We dated for 4 years before we moved in together. We talked about it for two consecutive years in a row, but decided against it both times until I was out of college for a year. We spent a lot of nights at each others houses, but never really bit the bullet until we were a little more established.
We've been living together for 2.5 years now, and we just bought our first home together in August!
I moved in with him less then a month before the wedding, so we'd been together for 3 and 1/2 years at that point. It's definitely been a huge transition, as I've been living alone for the past 4 years, but we're slowly getting into a groove with each other.
At his parent's - a year; on our own - 2 years.
It probably would have been sooner, but we were in a LDR. I had school and he had school/work in our specific areas. After I finished school in December 2010, I decided to permanently stay at his parents. Well, we all decided it was okay. I guess his parents were okay with it because they knew he was going to propose that Christmas Eve. Unfortunately, we stayed a lot longer than we intended.
We were together for over a year and a half when my FI and I moved in together.
I think we moved in after 6 years. But at 7 years, we moved out again for a few months and now we're back in again. It'll be a while yet until we live just the two of us alone.
We've been dating for 4.5 years. We're planning for a wedding in fall 2013/spring 2014. We won't live together until then. So that's 6 years together.
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