DH and I started dating the summer before I started college so not for a long while. I realized there was something seriously special when he flew to take care of me when I got really sick during an internship (he literally got on a plane after he got off the phone with me). I knew it was engagement after I had moved up to the city we know live in after graduation (he was a year older).
I knew I "was done" the weekend we started dating. I didn't now where it was going to ultimately lead, but I knew there wasn't going to be anyone else.
6 months later, when he first told me he loved me, I thought he was going to propose right there and then. If he had, I would have said yes.
I don't recall exactly. We were 15 when we started dating. At some point in high school, I knew. But I also knew we would graduate college and get jobs before we would marry.
A couple months. H said he knew the day he met me. I found out the day of our wedding from BIL during his best man speech that H went home that first day and told him he was going to marry me.
I've known him for 20 years. When we started heading towards a place in our relationship where I thought we would start dating I thought "If we date we are going to end up married." I never said that to him though!
I remember the night I met him feeling as though he was going to be an important part of my life. BUT he was the first and only guy I ever dated so it took me awhile to accept that we were going to end up married. I knew I loved him a couple of months into dating but we dated long distance for a couple of years so that made things more challenging.
I knew after a couple of weeks. He says he knew right away. (We did get engaged after 3 months.) Like stephlove my H also told his brother after our first date that he found The One.
LOL I'm the oddball who took a whole year. I thought I was too young (I was 21-22) to think about getting married. We got engaged when I was 23 and married a week after my 25th bday.
6 months. We had gone to lunch and it started raining. We had to run quite a few blocks from lunch to my internship in the rain. we got soaked but laughed the whole way. Jake hates getting wet in clothes so the fact he was laughing was amazing to me. I looked over and thought "I'm going to marry this man."
“Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make it so, right in the middle of it lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.” - Natalie Goldberg
The first date I knew he was pretty amazing. A few months later he really came through for me during a tough time, and then I knew for sure. We got engaged 6.5 months after we started dating.
About a year. (I was not in marriage & family mode at all when we met even though I was ridiculously in love with him.) But the timing was all screwed up for us back then and there's no way it would have worked at the time. When we found each other again, last year, I knew the second I opened my front door and saw him again for the first time in nine years.
I would say a few months. We started talking about marriage openly with each other at about 6 months I think.
We started dating at 18, so even though from 6 months on we talked about marriage, knew we were going to get married, etc., we were still so young. We both wanted to finish school, have some financial independence, live together, etc. before marriage, so it took us 6.5 years from our first date to our wedding day.