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Here are some questions for all you waiting bees if you'd like to participate:
1. How old are you and how long have you been with your SO?
2. When did you start waiting for a proposal?
3. Did your age have anything to do with you wanting to get married soon?
Here are my answers: I'm 30 and have been with my SO for 5 years now. I think the number one thing that has made me want to get married soon is my age. If I were still in my 20s I wouldn't be nearly as anxious to get married as I am now!
im 20 and been with my so for 4 years, i wanted to get engaged the moment i new he was the 1 which was 5 months in to the realtionship. i want to get engaged for reglious reasons.
i rlly hate this waiting process its killing me inside. boo boo booo!
Oh I'll play!
I'm 21 and so is my BF, we'll have been together for 4 years on the 12th :)
I've been "waiting" I guess since around the 6 month mark, when he unofficially asked me to marry him via a long distance phone call (we've been LDR for pretty much our entire relationship, due to me going away to school). More realistically, I guess I've been officially waiting since our last anniversary, when life after college seemed a whole lot more attainable. :)
I don't think my age has ever been something that has pushed me to want to get married. I knew I met my soulmate when we went on our first date, and I've always known that no matter what, we'd be together. Especially after committing to work through a college LDR, which has tested us, but proved our love to be strong. I guess I've always emulated my mother for getting married at 20, to my father (21 at the time) and them staying together. They're reasoning for getting married young was that they were in love and didn't want to wait any longer to prove it. I knew that my BF and I had that same kind of mentality. We're in it for the long haul, and right now it's just waiting for life post-grad that's stopping him from proposing.
1. I'm 26 (he's 28), we've been together for *gasp* 8 months
2. I suppose I "officially" started waiting when we settled on a timeline (so, Jan 1st)
3. Partially, want to be a mother by the time I'm 30. Although that may not happen with our current plans I still just want to start our life together.
1. I'm 23 and have been with with my boyfriend for 5 years. I've been wanting to be engaged for a couple years now, but it's been way worse waiting since I graduated university. He finished school the year before I did, so I thought hey maybe soon! But I was still in school, so I understood the waiting... Then when I graduated, the waiting just intensified haha once we both had real jobs and no more school it seemed like why not? My age doesn't really have anything to do with it as I'm still pretty young, but we've been together for so long and I am absolutely sure I want to marry him!
1. I'm 26 (and a half) and he will be 26 next week. We have been together for 3 years and 2 months :)
2. I have been waiting for about two years, but REALLY waiting for about 2 months (I know he has the ring).
3. I guess partly it is my age, but more my stage in life. I have my career, I have a home by myself, but I want to just hurry up and buy a place together and get on with our lives!
I just turned 34 three days ago. My FI and I were together for 1 year exactly when he proposed. The proposal was completey unexpected I hadn't even thought or talked about it because I thought it would be too soon. We have been engaged for 3 months and we have 18 more months to go. We already got a house and are living together. Our age has no bearing on the time we get married. We just want to do it right and go all out. This is the fkrst time either one of us has been engaged. We want kids, but won't start for at least 2 and a half years. We are both healthy and active and are in no hurry to rush to the aisle.
1. I'm 25 and we've been together for 6 years
2. I just started waiting for a proposal about Dec-Januaryish, but I've known I wanted to marry my SO for 4 years now!
3. I suppose my age plays a role, but I'm not sure what. If you asked me 10 years ago when I wanted to get married I would have said at 24. Whoops! It's really about where I am in my life, it's the next step for me and now it's finally the next step for us! He just graduated grad school, I'm graduating in May, it's time for real jobs, buying a house, and settling down.
Hello
I am 27(can't beleive it! haha), my bf turns 30 next week! We've been together for 1.5 years.
I am not really waiting for a proposal, I'd say I'm waiting to be legally married. Is that weird? haha. I started to get anxious around our 1 year mark. I'd say it's basically due to my age.
1) I am 24. I have been with my SO for 3 years.
2) A little less than a year ago.
3) I told my SO early on in our relationship, when we started getting serious, that I wanted to be married and have two children by the time I am 30, preferably earlier. My SO feels much the same way. Since I knew I was 23, going on 24, I started to anticipate a proposal more, so I guess my age did play into it a little.
I'm 25 and my SO is 39. We've been together for two and a half years. I think I consider myself waiting since one year into our relationship. My age doesn't play a factor with wanting to get married, but his does. I want 2-3 kids and I don't want their Dad to be really old when (for example) they graduate high school, etc. I want to get things moving! The biggest thing making me want to get married (besides knowing he is the one for me) is that I feel like we live like we're married already and I also feel like I'm stuck in limbo. I want my life to move forward, and the next logical step for me is marriage and having kids.
I'm 29, we've been together 6 and a half years
We planned on getting married since the first few months we dated, but neither of us was in a rush and we both thought we might never get around to it. About six months ago we both decided it was time, I have been waiting for about three weeks for my ring.
I think for us it was less age and more getting our adult life organized. We run a business together, I'm back in school, and he feels frustrated that with the economy we had some setbacks. This is our way of moving forward in an area of our life we have total control over, and celebrating the piece of our lives where things are going great. In retrospect, we should prolly have gotten married a few years ago. We are so established in our relationship that a wedding just seems like an expensive distraction, which is why we will either elope or do a small and very non traditional party. But the one part that does get me excited is celebrating with our community of friends and family.
Fun thread!
* We're 22 and have been together since 14
* Receieved a promise ring at 16... so I guess I've been waiting since then ;) However, we officially booked our venue this week without "having a ring" so I'm assuming it's around the corner! We've also been living together for a while now.
* We're both in college and we've always said we would wait and finish college. Well we're graduating Dec 17 and getting married Dec 29!! lol
1) 29 and 6.5 years
2) About 2 years
3) Partially. I was waiting pretty patiently but we hit 5 years and I was like--where is this going? And then the age thing on top of it. It all kind of came together.
I am 26.5 and my SO is soon to be 32. We have been together for about 3 years now and I have been waiting for about 14 months. I wantto be married soon because we alreaady have a son together and he would like to have some more children in the near future. I would like to make our family official and legal.
1. 26, turning 27 next month! been together 1 year 3 months 2.waiting for a proposal for about 3 months(i think 1 year is ample time to know if someone is the one) 3. i would want to marry him if i was any age, so no i don't think my age has anything to do with it
1. I am 22, BF is 26 and we have been together for over 2 years.
2. I started waiting for a proposal last June, when we moved in together (he asked my mother to move in with intentions to propose and her blessing that month.) A proposal was going to come on a cruise vacation this past December, but a financial situation ate his ring fund... :( (I have told him over and over I don't need a ring, but he insists.)
3. Age doesnt have anything to do with my wanting to get married soon, I just love him to pieces and want to have that full commitment with him.
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1. I am 27 & Mr. Foxxy is 24... 28 & 25 next month. We've been together for a little over a year.
2. I've been waiting for about 4 months or so. He gave me a timeline of engagement by the end of May. Hoping to have the wedding in the first half of 2012. :o)
3. I would say that my age is a small factor.. I always thought I'd be married by 30. It's not the main thing pushing the engagement/marriage though. When Mr. Foxxy & I started dating, I knew within the first month that he was it for me... and he knew not too long afterwards... and we really didn't see a need to drag out a long (pre-marital) relationship if we both knew already. We kind of started talking about weddings/marriage super early because the whole reason we met is because we were the MOH & BM in our mutual friends' wedding. They had us meet like over a year before the wedding, though we didn't start dating til like 6mo or so after we met.
1. How old are you and how long have you been with your SO?
I am 22 and he is 24. We have been together for 4.5 years.
2. When did you start waiting for a proposal?
Ummm I've known I wanted to marry him since about 4 months in, and really since the beginning we've talked marriage. At about 3 years in I guess I started "waiting"...I'm expecting a proposal this year for sure.
3. Did your age have anything to do with you wanting to get married soon?
No, seeing as we're both pretty young. I would say the main factors in wanting to get married are that 1)we love each other, 2)we've already been together for 4.5 years and it will be 6 years together when we get married (we have an unofficial date right now), and 3)We've both graduated from college (which was something we wanted to do before getting married).
We're both 22, been together almost 3 years, and I started officially waiting when we discussed marriage just prior to moving in together at the end of December. We agreed on a loose five-year timeline for marriage, and then he said that he wants it to be on the shorter end of that, and that he just wants us both to be secure in our jobs first so that we can afford a wedding (we agreed immediately that we will pay for it ourselves to avoid his mother holding money over our heads to try to control our wedding), and more importantly so that we don't have to start out our married life with financial/employment troubles. So since I want to have a long-ish engagement (1.5 years, give or take), a proposal could happen as early as this year...and so that is how I am officially waiting.
Age doesn't have anything to do with when I want to get married.
1) We are both 27 and have been together for 6 1/2 years.
2) I think about the 4 year mark is when it hit me that I felt we were ready to be engaged and started wanting it to happen. When the 5 and 6 years marks rolled around, I have been getting very antsy and want him to just propose already. We knew a few months in that we wnated to get married eventually so now he just needs to get in gear.
3) I think age has a little bit to do with it since it's been so long and we aren't getting any younger. We want a family and I don't want to be too much old and barely having the first child.
@jennab503: My parents got married at 21 so I always thought that I would get married that young too although it didn't work out that way. Like you, I always thought that everyone married young and stayed happy like my parents did.
1. I'm 22 and my SO is 28. We've been dating 10 months now.
2. Right after I knew he was it for me, I couldn't stop hinting how I felt, and soon we both couldn't stop talking about the future. I'd say I've been wating for about 4 months now.
3. Not at all! I had imagined a number in my head that would seem to be the perfet age to get married (about 25 or 26), but I completely threw that out the window when I knew he was the one, and age doesn't matter at all to me, it's just a number. Though I'll be close enough to that number when I finally do get married! ;)
1) i'm 29 and we've been together for 5 years [6 in march!]
2) we first started talking about marriage our 2nd month together but i guess i've officially been waiting since our 1st anniversary when he gave me a promise ring with the intent of marrying me one day
3) my age doesn't play into it. i just really want to be his wife and he really wants to be my husband
1. How old are you and how long have you been with your SO?
I'm 21 and my BF is 22. We have been together for just over 2 and a half years.
2. When did you start waiting for a proposal?
I started waiting for a proposal since our 1st anniversary. (It wasn't even a reality then because he wasn't ready at that point. He is now. Hahaha!) I have known since I met him that he is the man I want to marry. We were together for a while in High School, and just keep getting back together, time after time.
3. Did your age have anything to do with you wanting to get married soon?
Not at all. It's just as simple as knowing that I am with the man I want to marry and I am ready to do so. We are planning to have a two year engagement so we can save for the wedding.
@Shirinjoon: I am the same as you I think.. I am 29 and my boyfriend is 33, we have been together for 5 years. I want to get married because I am turning 30 soon and we'd like to start a family. That is why I am suddenly so antsy about it.. I guess I have only really been waiting properly for about 6 months- because we decided we would get married in 2011. Now every week that ticks by and he doesn't do it, I feel like my life plan is all off kilter. Which I know, is ridiculous btw.. but I can't help it..
1. How old are you and how long have you been with your SO?
We're both 21 and have been together for 4.5 years.
2. When did you start waiting for a proposal?
I started waiting about a year and a half ago, after we started talking about getting married "someday." Everyone was asking us when we were getting married before we even started thinking about it, so it pushed us to have the conversation about whether or not that was something our relationship was moving towards. We figured out that it was, but I was thinking in terms of how soon (1 or 2 years) he was thinking in terms of "someday." Luckily we're on the same page now, and I know it will be in the "not cold months" of this year, so sometime between April & November. :)
3. Did your age have anything to do with you wanting to get married soon?
Not really because we're both still young, but I suppose in a way it does. I would like to be engaged for at least 1.5 years, and married for 2 or 3 years to just enjoy the relationship before we start having kids, and I would ideally like to start having kids at 27/28.
1. How old are you and how long have you been with your SO?
I'm 26 (turning 27 in a week!) and my SO is 30. We first started dating in early 2007 but the timing was wrong. Now we've been together for nearly 3 years.
2. When did you start waiting for a proposal?
I've always known I wanted to marry him but I didn't start to "wait" until this past summer.
3. Did your age have anything to do with you wanting to get married soon?
Probably in some ways, its not that I want to be married by a certian age, I just feel like I am ready to make that commitment, if I was younger I'm not sure I would feel the same way.
Im 23..SO is 31(in March) Been together for 2.5 years.
Started to wait when he asked if I liked man made diamonds. Since then, he hasnt talked seriously about it, but we joke about gettting married now and then.
My age is fine...Its him that I think that he might be thinking about...He said that he would prefer to have kids before he was 35...well thats news to me! :] One thing is for sure that I know that I want to send the rest of my life with him and make a commitment to him, but Im not in any position to push him to pop the question. We've been living together for a little over 2 years and Im slightly getting the feeling that he's too comfortable..ya know??
1. I'm 25 and he's 32. We have been dating for 1 1/2 years
2. I started waiting around the one year mark. I'm pretty confident it will happen in the next 6 months. :)
3. Age has a little bit to do with it. I'm ready to start our life together but I also want to be married for a few years before having kids.
1. I'm 24 and he's 27 and we've been together 2 and a half years.
2. The first time I time I got my hopes up about a proposal was my birthday in 2009 but I only started REALLY waiting when we started ring shopping in late summer/fall.
3. My age has a little to do with it, I want children young.. but a large part is also his age. He is just now realizing that he's getting older and kids are still a few years out for us if we got the wedding show on the road now. Plus we bought a home together almost a year ago.. we are pretty much living as a married couple already.
I am 22 and have been with my boyfriend for almost 3 years now. I guess I started really waiting about a year ago, when we got an apartment together because we had a serious talk before hand and agreed that we both see this going on for the long run, or else I wouldn't have gotten a place with him. My age has nothing to do with me wanting to be engaged/married, in fact it's only knowing that we're pretty young still that is keeping me sane while waiting. We have plenty of time to spend the rest of our lives together :)
1. We're both 24 (he's 3 months older)
2. I started "waiting" about 6 months ago.
3. Age doesn't really have to do with wanting to marry him for me. I would like to have kids by the time I'm 30 and he's aware of that. I did feel a bit "rushy" a couple months ago but I'm much more relaxed about it now. He's not ready and I can wait. We have a great relationship so Idk why I was so insane about it earlier lol.
im 27 and he is 30...weve been together for 2 and a half years and I started waiting at the start of 2011.. Im just ready to start our life together (even though I could use some extra cash in the savings account first) id at lease like the ring by this year..lol
@BritBee: It's not ridiculous--I totally feel the same way. There's a lot of things I would have done by now if I wasn't with him: bought a house, gotten a dog, maybe moved for my job.
I put a lot of these things on hold for him, and it's like--when is he going to make this decision so we can move on to other ones and I can take my life off pause?
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I'm 22, my FI is 26, we've been together for nearly 2 years, and I've been waiting since our one year. I knew he was the one when I first saw him, (that's a story that I don't think anyone will believe but me and him, lol) He's helped me so much to accomplish my goals, and when we are married many of our 5 year goals will be complete. :)
@Taylor4: I guess I just mean its ridiculous because I haven't really put anything on hold for him or sacrificed anything. Its only now, as the big 3-0 looms and I know we both want to start a family and it appears to me that he is not doing anything about us getting engaged.. that I am starting to feel frustrated.. he knows all this, I just have to wait, but man that is the hardest part!!! I would like to disappear into time capsule for a few months and then come back again having got myself further down the waiting line. I think the thing is he's promised we will get MARRIED this year and I just freak out about how where and when, when he hasn't even asked me yet.. time is ticking away and I feel like my life is on hold..
1. I'm 29 (30 next month - eek!) and he is 31. We've been together a little over 2 and a half years.
2. I've been waiting for over a year now, and officially since August when he graduated (before he proposed he said he wanted to finish his PhD and find a job first)
3. My age did and didn't have anything really to do with it. I mean, I am aware of the fact that by the time we are actually married I will be 31, and I don't want to start trying for kids until our marriage is official. I do feel some of the biological clock ticking, but for the most part I know he wants kids too and I don't think we'll wait too long after getting married.
I am 23, soon to be 24 (so excited!!!) and I've been with my SO for 1 year 8 months.
I started waiting at the year and a half mark...I think. It was never very clear.
My age had nothing to do with me wanting to get married. It had everything to do with meeting someone I could really see myself being with for the rest of my life, someone who I was compatible with on almost every level.
I'm 29, and we've been together 1.5 years. I guess I started waiting a little after a year- that's when I felt certain that I was ready.
I think my age plays a role for 2 reasons: 1. I had a lot of time to date around before we got together. I think this experience made it easier for me to know for sure that SO is the one. 2. I do want to start having children relatively soon, so I'm definitely more in a rush to get started than I would have been at 25.
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