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FI was the only one I've ever lived with. We moved in together after 9 months, but didn't get engaged until a little over 2 years after that. :) I don't know how, but we just "knew." <-- I know it's cheesy. 
I really do wish I hadn't lived with my first boyfriend but I might have not ended up with my SO if I had gone another route... so I am thankful for the way my life has played out.
I lived with a boyfriend in universitY for about six months. I went away for school and we did long distance for a year and one day he came to visit and just didn't leave. There was never any talk of There ever being a pending engagement and we basically lived as roommates that shared a bed and had sex. No merged finances or real long term planning.
MIT was different when I moved in with dh as it was clear an engagement would follow as soon as possible.
DH was the first man that I lived with romantically. I lived with another guy but he was a friend and it was not romantic
DH is the only person I've ever lived with romantically, although I've had more male roommates than female roommates I think. I just asked the same question of DH, as I don't think this is something we've ever talked about, fully expecting the answer to be no, but the answer was yes! Duh, he was engaged once before me so I should have assumed but it just never occurred to me! Ah well, we're laughing about it now and it doesn't bother me, but I just can't believe this has never come up in 3.5 years of being together!
I've had multitudes of roommates, both male and female; however, my fiance is the first person I've lived with that I was in a romantic relationship with. We were together almost 4 years before getting engaged, but moved in together after 5&1/2 months! I know it's super corny, but we just kind of knew :)
DH is the only one I ever actually wanted to move in with. I moved away for grad school seven months into our relationship, and we were in a LDR for a year. When I came home, we moved in together. It just felt right.
I lived with my ex for almost the whole time we dated. We moved in after a couple months of dating and were together 5 years before I left him for my now FI.
I shouldn't be posting on here probably, but FI is my first boyfriend! Sorry, I couldn't resist.
@nineteen87: The last 2 months that I lived with my ex, we were broken up as well and I also happened to be pregnant! (We broke up about 2 weeks before finding out I was pregnant.) Talk about and awkward situation!
My ex and I lived together for about 2 and a half years. I did wait longer to officially live with FI but a lot of that had to do with having a small child. We've been living together about a year and a half now.
Well, I lived with my ex-husband, so I guess that counts. And now DH. Thats it.
I've had other boyfriends, but FI was the first one I lived with (and we got engaged before moving in).
One, my ex-husband. (I didn't live with him until we were married.)
DH I lived with for 4 years before we got engaged.
i voted 2 = 2 ex husbands.
i have lived with my FI for 2.5 years now.
FI is the only person, male or female, I have ever lived with besides my parents, unless you count 4 years in a university dorm. I had my own room at university, but I lived in a dorm with 14 other people, so it was like we had a little house, and a big family haha.. we were all pretty close. I don't think I would have been able to share a room though or I would have gone crazy. It's different when you share an apartment with someone because cleaning and washing dishes, etc comes into play where at university we had a cleaning lady for every part of the dorm except for our own rooms, and we also ate in a cafeteria... so no dishes.
FI and I moved in together after 7 years together.. we were 23. We're now 25... it's been an awesome two years :)
I lived with my ex fi for a year, although the last 7 months of that were miserable and we we hardly a couple, though we pretended to be. After that I tried to stay living with my ex but it got really complicated when I started dating FI, so moved in with FI pretty quickly (by accident, I needed to find a new place to live but HAD to get out of my old place) and even though I rented another place I never moved out... the rest is history. lol
I was married previously. We lived together since the day we met. We were both hired summer help for the forest service and they house all those workers together. Then after the term was over (6months), we both moved into our own place after just 6 months. I think it was a huge mistake, not a smart move. However, we were so poor that neither of us could afford to live alone. We kind of fell into marriage for health insurance reasons.
So now, I'm more educated, in my mid 30s. I dated FI for 3 years before we got engaed. I also deiced that I would not live with another man unless I was engaged (aka proposed to). I didn't get the proposal or ring the first time around, so I knew I wanted it this time. I also owned a house at the time, so I wasn't going to sell my house unless I knew the relationship was forever.
I feel like I've done it right this time!
Just my FI! Funny, cause I totally wasn't planning on moving in with him either... He's French, and after about 3 times of him visiting me in the states I decided to study abroad in Paris so we could be closer...but because spent more time apart than together I wasn't ready to move in with him, so I opted to do a homestay and live with another French family. FI (SO at the time) wasn't too happy about that, but he encouraged me to come out early and stay with him a month before my program started...and after living together I couldn't imagine moving out. My program wouldn't allow students to live with other people unless they were family member, so I had to lie and say my FI was my cousin so I could cancel the homestay :-p
Zero (: My FI and I started dating in highschool so I didn't have an opportunity to live with anyone else.
Only my FI! We have been together since we were 15, so I only lived with my parents before him.
One. It was my ex of three years. My only other serious relationship. Same goes for FI.
FI was the first SO I lived with. I had talked about it with previous boyfriends -- so glad it didn't get any further than that. We moved in together around 10 months of dating, but didn't get engaged til almost 5 years later! I'm with @AmeliaBedelia: I think we just "knew" that it was going to work out.
1 and a half? Lol I'm not sure if one of these counts, but I lived with my high school/early college boyfriend for a summer while he had an internship across the country. Even though we technically lived together, I don't really count it because we were both going back to separate colleges in the fall so it was never a permanent thing.
I did live with one other boyfriend before my FI for about a year and a half. We were planning on getting engaged, but as we lived together we realized we had huge problems. I would have married this guy had we not lived together first, so it really sealed it in my head that I had to live with someone before getting married.
My fiance is the first romantic partner with whom I've lived, but it wasn't due to a pending engagement. I wouldn't consider becoming engaged to someone if I didn't already know that we were compatible as roommates. It's a lot easier to move out than get a divorce.
I lived with my ex bf for about a year and a half, 3 months of which I was half moved out/ half lived there. Im glad that I did move on my own for a short period because it was nice to be more independent and experience standing on my own two feet. Now Im back with my parents and I appreciate them alot more :)
Maybe because I'm older, but I've lived with 3 other people prior. My first real relationship that was 4 years, and good thing, because I would have married him if we didn't live together first. We lived together for 6 months before breaking up. Living with him showed a whole other side.
I was married before, so there's #2 we lived together for 6 years.
I dated a guy for 2 1/2 years before DH and I lived with him for about a year.
I didn't move in with my husband till after we were married, so definitely no one else before him. :)
DH and I moved in together after seven months of engagement. He's the only one I've ever lived with.
FI was the first guy, and only, guy I've lived with. I wouldn't move in with anyone unless I knew we were both in it for the long haul, and it worked out just like I planned!
I lived with my college boyfriend for about a year and a half, but it was exactly like @SapphireSun: described: "There was never any talk of There ever being a pending engagement and we basically lived as roommates that shared a bed and had sex. No merged finances or real long term planning."
I said I would only ever live with my husband. We ended up moving in together once we were engaged, but it was the only way that DH could financially take a job in my town. I am satisfied that we at least made it to engagement.
I can see how other people would move in sooner, that just wasn't right for us. TETO.
I also freakin' love living with my husband more then anything :)
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I was just wondering I know many won't move in unless there is a pending engagement, I lived with my ex for about 10 months (2 of which we were broken up- weird I know).
I waited longer to officially move in with my SO and am very glad I didn't rush things- previously I was desperate for financial help and needed a roommate more than a boyfriend (which didn't work out anyway).
I posted this in home- I think that's the right topic...?