MemberWhen did you start “waiting” to be engaged? (Poll)
What did it take for you to determine that you were waiting?
For me it was 5 years into the relationship when we went ring shopping.
MemberWe talked about it about 6 months into the relationship. I’m quite a cautious person though and the divorce stats make me nervous lol. I want us to be together for at least 5 years before we get engaged, I think that is a reasonable time to go through all the ups and downs and figure out whether we can stick it out 🙂
MemberI wanted to get engaged 2 years into a relationship but he proposed 1 month after our 3 year anniversary
Memberi started to think it was becoming time to get engaged after 2 years.
From 3 years till the second we got engaged it started driving me mental and i couldn’t wait any longer. Got engaged at 3 years 8 months.
Member@Artificial-Sweetener: I used to say that if a guy had not proposed after 3 years I would dump them. I started thinking about getting engaged at about the 2-year mark when many of our friends who had been dating less or about the same time as we had started getting engaged/ married. Of course when 3 years rolled around I was far too head over heels to call it quits just because of a stupid timeline but I did tell my SO that time was ticking and that I wanted to get married soon so if he did not that would be a deal breaker. That was 2 months ago so we’ll see…
MemberWell, we started talking about it about 9 months into the relationship, I’m not one to do things rashly, but with him everything flew out the window, I have been “waiting” for less than a month now, but we have a ring! (My grandmothers wedding ring is being given to us!!!) So now, I just have to wait for him to have the chat with my dad!!!!
MemberMine was about a year and a half in, when we went on vacation together and started really looking at rings. Once he had the ring and started dropping hints, that’s when it REALLY turned into waiting! It was only about a month of that though!
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MemberWe knew we were forever around 3 years into the relationship, but I had goals that I needed to accomplish before I could entertain the thought of engagement. That said, I started wondering when a proposal would come around 5.5 years into the relationship.
MemberWe started talking about marriage and the like pretty early on.. less than 6months into dating. He didnt start saving for the ring till 2yrs in (we wanted to just be together for a while) and “officially” proposed the day before we got married lol. (courthouse wedding)
MemberAt 2 years in. I had told Fiance 6 months prior I was “ready to be engaged whenever he was.” And assumed at some point he would go out, buy a ring and propose. Then at around 2 years he randomly told me he was “ready to be engaged too”. I hadn’t brought it up at all. Then he waited 2 more years to propose. So I “waited” for two years from when he was “ready to be engaged” until he actually decided to propose.
MemberWe’ve been talking about the future since very early on in our relationship, but I didn’t officially consider myself waiting until we moved in together and discussed a timeline at the beginning of this year (4 years into our relationship).
HostessAbout 2 years. It was the first time we went ring shopping.
MemberFiance brought it up within our first month of dating (half-joking) and it was on my mind a lot after that… But we’d been best friends for a couple years before that.
I started seriously “waiting” after about 6 months. It feels like it’s been longer though since we’ve been so close for so long!
MemberAfter about 3 years into the relationship, after we opened a joint account and purchased a home together. That was that April, and I got engaged in September, on my birthday. We knew we were going to get married, we just did things a little differently than most.
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