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posted 1 year ago in Proposals
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  • poll: how long together as a couple before he proposed?
    1mnth-1 yr : (80 votes)
    18 %
    1 yr- 5 yrs : (254 votes)
    58 %
    5 yrs-10 yrs : (96 votes)
    22 %
    10 yrs and up : (7 votes)
    2 %
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    chloejade    May 5, 2012   Dulac, LA wedding in Houma, LA

    my relationship was SHORT!!! We were together for only 2 months...yea I know! Lol but it felt just so right. He's the only man I want to spend my life with and we have the same opinions on marriage, children, and money...we are best friends to say the least... We already live together so that question of "tolerating" each other is figured out and both our families love us and agree us getting married us wonderful...we are going to be engaged for a year and a half before wedding...anyone else out there with a short bf gf status??? And how long?

     
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    Mrs.H2B    August 4, 2012   Canada

    We celebrated our 8 year dating annvirsary 3 days before he proposed. We had a couple of breaks in there.....started dating when we were 16. But I think it's great that you're taking the plunge after 2 months, especially if you know it's right!

     
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    Omoge25    June 16, 2012  

    Congratulations to you! 2months is pretty short but its great when you just Know you've met the right person.

    Mine was 2yrs and 3 months.

     
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    Sunshine23    July 17, 2010   Canada

    3.5 years :-)

     
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    Pomapoo    May 6, 2011   Maryland

    We'd been together about 3 1/2 years when we got engaged, and it'll be close to 5 years when we get married.

    Maybe you should put up a poll?

     
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    FutureMrsMcDermott    February 2016  

    6 years! Started dating when I was 16. I'm now 22 and he's 24.

     
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    FutureMrsMcDermott    February 2016  

    @Pomapoo: Yes, poll! Poll!

     
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    UpstateCait    October 7, 2011   Upstate, NY

    A little more than 5 years. On our wedding day it will be about 6 1/2.

     
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    hamachi    May 28, 2011   los angeles

    6 years...i was in another long relationship before him for 3 years. i was a serial monogamist. lol. 

     
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    hermitcrab    June 2010   NYC

    @Pomapoo: Just about the exact same for me, except it was dating 3 and a half years, married at just over 5 years!  We just passed 6 years together!

     
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    JennBug89    June 11, 2011   North Carolina

    We were together for 4 years when he proposed. On our wedding day, it will be 5 years and 2 weeks.

     
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    SoontobeMrsA    June 2012   MA/NH line

    We've been together nearly a year. We got engaged around the 6 month mark.

     
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    acingthelace    September 24, 2011  

    over 4 and a half years! It will be around 5 1/2 on our wedding day. We knew we were ready for a while but had to wait for the money to be there.

     
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    Imagelicious    October 9, 2011   Toronto, Ontario

    I voted for 1mt - 1yr even though he proposed after 13 months. He was going to propose on our 1yr anniversary, but I was upset with him (unrelated to anniversary), so he didn't.

     
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    sdrury89    March 10, 2012   Houston, TX

    We were at about 5 years when he proposed. When we get married we'll have been together about 6.5 years. We started dating at 16 and we'll both be 22 when we get married.

     
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    Gemstone    July 2011   Cincinnati

    Four years, but two-plus year engagement, so about six by the time we're married.

     
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    Ginger123    March 19, 2011  

    We were together a little less than 4 months before we got engaged, but we had been very close friends for 4 years before we started dating.  It was one of those things where we knew that if we started dating, we were going to get married.  We have the support of all our friends and family.  We're also having an equally short engagement (engaged in September and are getting married March 19th).  When you know, you know!

     
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    AnneTossy    October 8, 2011   Virginia

    3 1/2 years here!

     
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    Miss Smashville    September 17, 2011   Nashville, TN

    He proposed last Saturday Smile and we've been together for 6 months.  When we get married in September it will 1 year & 1 week from our first date.

     
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    Ms. Meowerson    May 12, 2012  

    8.5 years

     
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    NDBee    March 10, 2012  

    We were past the 6.5 yr mark, which would really make me mad if we started dating in college, but I'd taken him to the junior prom I gave him a little leeway :-)

     
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    Ms Hedgehog    July 10, 2011   Dallas/ Ft Worth TX

    We were together for 3 1/2 years

     
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    roxy_angell13    May 28, 2011   Canada

    We were dating 2 years before we got engaged. And than we will have been engaged just under 2 1/2 years before our wedding this may. We didn't see a point in rushing things. If we planned to be together forever what was waiting a few more years going to matter.

     
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    Oneeleven    April 7, 1992   Ontario, Canada, Getting married in the Mayan Riviera

    He told me me he wanted to marry me on the 5th date.  Gave me a "promise" ring at the 5 month mark and has told me he plans on the real proposal in June or July.  So it would be an 11 month courtship should it happen by July.

    We have lived together after the 2-3 month.

    PS: to the op: Good on you for knowing what you want.  My FH and I are no spring chickens and want to have a baby, so we also have that to consider in our timeline.

     
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    Donnica22    August 27, 2011   Marietta, GA

    3 1/2

     
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    chloejade    May 5, 2012   Dulac, LA wedding in Houma, LA

    it's nice being engaged, just annoying when friends get a little snarky about how short we've been together!!!  My mom, younger brother,and I am engaged at the same time! my mom has been for almost 10 yrs and my brother i think a year, neither of them have a date set though.

     
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    Crisark    November 5, 2011   WV

    3days shy of 7months when he proposed on Dec 14, 2010. ! We will be together 2 years when we marry next year!

     
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    KatNYC2011    September 24, 2011   London, UK (american expat)

    We'd been together 6 1/2 years when he proposed (just hit our 7 year anniversary in February).

    I cannot believe we started dating when I was 19 and he was 20, we will be 27 and 28 at our wedding!

    Amazing how much changes over those years.

     
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    Mrs Grape    December 10, 2010  

    First of all, congratulations! We were together four months when he officially proposed, and we got married after about 2 1/2 years together.

     
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    Running Elley    June 19, 2011   Fresno, CA

    We were together almost exactly 1.5 years after we started dating (4 days after we hit the 18 month mark). We will be engaged 6 months and together 2 years and 13 days on our wedding day this June!

     
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    missmouse29    July 2011   NWOntario, Canada

    We were together just over 3 years when my partner proposed.

    We'll be getting married on our 7 year anniversary (not engagment anniversary).

     
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    laurana    April 12, 2014   Florida

    Just under a year before he proposed. And we'll be having a long engagement of about 2 years!

     
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    deathbydesign    February 18, 2012   Lives in Ontario, married in Quebec

    We were together for 3 years before becoming engaged. 

     
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    MissSawyer    September 1, 2012   Toronto, Ontario

    Just under 2.5 years.

     
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    Gingersnap    August 2000   Ontario, Canada

    We were together 9 months when we got engaged, and we will have been together just over 2 years when we get married :)

     
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    nursein10    May 21, 2011  

    we were together 4 years when we got engaged, but by the time we get married we will have been together for almost 7 years! :)

     
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    DesireeAnne    October 13, 2012   South Jersey

    We've together for about 1.5 years now. :) He proposed about 1 year and 3 months in.

     
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    deetroitwhat    April 28, 2015  

    About a year.  Just over.  We knew each other since 1996 though (we were engaged in 2009).

     
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    dodgercpkl    October 15, 2010   California

    We were together for 11 months before he proposed.  :)   I would have said yes at the 2 month mark though!  I just knew he was the man I'd marry!  :D

     
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    Hobokenbride2012    March 17, 2012   New Jersey

    We were together 18 months when we got engaged and will be together 3.5 years on our wedding day.  But I must say I knew he was the one after 3 months.

     

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