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How long did you wait?

posted 2 years ago in Waiting
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  • poll: How long did you wait for him to pop the question?
    under one year : (11 votes)
    20 %
    1-3 years : (21 votes)
    39 %
    3-5 years : (14 votes)
    26 %
    5-8 years : (8 votes)
    15 %
    8-10 years : (0 votes)
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    eternaloptimist    9/10/11   NY
     
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    Bennie      

    still waiting!

     
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    futuredrbraun    May 15, 2010  

    We went ring shopping around our 1 year anniversary and he proposed 2 months later :) Our engagement will be 1 year.

     
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    melodicsighs1    May 22, 2010   San Diego

    We were engaged at 1 year 8 months. Our engagement will be 1 year 5 moths.

     
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    crebre80    November 20, 2010   Baton Rouge, LA

    still waiting!! we have been together 1 year 16 months and two days (tick tock tick tock) lol

     
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    daydreamwanderer       DC

    oh man, my ex and I were together for 3 1/2 years and at that point I realized if he hadn't asked yet.... it was never gonna happen. BUT that relationship had a lot of dysfunction besides. So so so glad I got out when I did.

    With J, it was like a month into the relationship that he looked at me and was like, "You're going to marry me, aren't you?" totally sincere. And I was able to, with all my heart, say yes, because I KNEW it was right. Apparently so did he. :)

    Now we're just waiting til we're together again (LDR) this winter to get a ring on my finger and 'make it official' (we're not telling people only because we figure they'd freak out since it all happened so quickly).

     
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    MissHelen    November 20, 2010   California

    My story is similar to daydreamwanderer (complete with the "people will freak out" LOL). FI told me three months into our relationship that he was going to ask me to marry him before the year was out. Two weeks later...!

     
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    crebre80    November 20, 2010   Baton Rouge, LA

    wait my statement was incorrect!! we have been together one year four months and two days or 16 months and two days!! sigh i need sleep :D

     
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    gingerkid4god    June 12, 2010   West Virginia

    only two years adn one month

     
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    artbee    February 28, 2010  

    we had been dating 11 months. we had known each other for 1 year.

     
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    Mrs Moose    August 15, 2009  

    Just under four years... but we knew we would get married one day just as soon as we started dating. It was the right time for us! :-)

     
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    ddubzz    June 5, 2010   Los Angeles, CA

    We dated 2 years 9 months before he popped the question.  Our engagement will be 18 months long.  By the time we tie the knot, we'll have been together 4 years, 3 months.  :)

     
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    littlemissmoo    July 18, 2010   London, UK

    3 and a half years to the day. But we started talking about it after 2 and a half years. Serious talking. The waiting and knowing that he was the man I wanted to have next to me for the rest of my life was the longest wait ever! 

     
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    CorgiTales    February 1, 2011  

    I marked 1-3 years because our 3 year anniversary will be in Feb 2010, and I am 99.9% sure he'll propose before then. 

    Our story was a bit different, we definitely didn't "know" on the first date or the first month or even the first year! We took things slow. We had both gotten out of super serious relationships just a few months before we met. I'd been with a guy I thought I'd marry for 5 years, and he'd been engaged. Needless to say we were NOT looking for a spouse when we started dating. Add to that, I was still in school, and I had a real need to get a job and prove to myself I could take care of myself without some guy paying my way. But, we loved each other and we had a great time together so we just stayed together. Soon after the 2 year mark everything changed. I felt really stable and happy with myself for the first time in my life. Things were going well at his job. Things with us were still great. At that point it became really clear that we were going to get married. Our theoretical talks about the future became more like plans. Not long after he started ring shopping. I know he has a ring picked, and now I wait :)

    I feel like I've gotten some slack from my family because we didn't have a story-book whirlwind romance where we both "knew" early on... but I don't think love happens in just one way. Our way worked for us.

     
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    bellenga    July 31, 2010   Georgia

    We're right now officially one year ten months.  He'd better hand it over before the 2 year mark which is 2 days after Christmas of being an official couple and the official anniversary. 

     
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    His Barista    September 4, 2010   Spokane, WA

    We got engaged after a year and a half of dating. When we get married we'll have been together almost 3 years.

     
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    di5308    January 1, 2000  

    Well, I checked under one year, but we had dated previously and known each other for over 5 years, so it wasn't your typical quick engagement. He popped the question after 6 months of dating the second go 'round. We knew it from the second or third week though.

     
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    thefuturemrsjewell    August 7, 2010   Washington DC

    We'd been together about 3 years and 9 months when we got engaged, when we get married we'll have been together just over 5 years!

     
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    Annui    March 13, 2010   Bend, OR

    I was the one who popped the question, but 3 years!

     
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    AnamCara    April 10, 2010   Ireland/Connecticut

    We met on MySpace on Sept 1st (random but true - he sent me a message and was too cute for me not to write back), had our first date Sept 9 and were basically a couple from our first date - it all evolved very easily and naturally.  He proposed 2 years and 8 months later and our engagement will be about 11 months...(yay!) :0)

     
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    trailmix      

    I was with FH for a little over 4 years when we got engaged...We'll be at 5.5 when we get married :)

     
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    AliOopsieDaisy    July 2010  

    A little over 6 months! We knew! :)

     
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    MissNoche    June 2010   Boston

    Well we had been together for 6 years and living together for 3 when he proposed but I would really only say I was "waiting" for about 6 months!  :)  Until then neither of us really wanted to get married, we didn't really have any friends getting married and it didn't yet seem for "us".  Haha then all it took was my sister's wedding for me to get bitten by the marriage bug :)  I recall another post that correlated the age you met with the time you dated and I think it's a strong correlation.  We didn't want to get married young, but we met when we were young so by definition it was a long time of dating before marriage!

     
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    attybride    9/25/10   Boston, MA

    We were together for about a year and a half before he proposed.

     
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    scissors    June 19, 2010   Atlanta, Ga

    He proposed EXACTLY one year after our first kiss, which was the day we met. :p

     
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    ejs4y8    June 20, 2009  

    3.5 years!

     

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