S/O Harry and Meg. How long did you date your Haych?

[fryjack2]

Or spouse/long term partner?  From first date to wedding. 

[penguingrrl]

For us it was 7 years, plus two years of friendship before that. But we were HS sweethearts who got engaged within a year of graduating college, so we were babies.

[bears]

MH and I met in 1996 and got married in 2008. We dated a bit in HS/college, broke up for a few years, then got back together after we had some life experience.

[VillainV]

We met in January of 2010, engaged in January of 2011, married in December of 2011. So 23 months? We were in our 30s.

[lilypad1126]

4 years of dating before we got engaged, another 5 months until the wedding.

We knew each other for 3 years before we started officially dating.

[redheadk]

5 years. We started dating when I was in college so pretty young. We've been together for 22 years at this point.

[chilerellanos]

My ex husband and I started dating in 5/03. We got engaged in 12/06, and married 3/08.

I left him 12/18, and the divorce was final 1/21/21.

I met my current bf this past May. Our first date was June. We are dating slow but we have been exclusive since we met.

[eb777888]

Met October 2002, first date was July 2003, married May 2006.

We got engaged after about a year, but didn't want to go into debt to pay for our fairly extravagant wedding, so we had to save.

[fryjack2]

I peripherally knew who H was for prob 5 years (although don't remember interacting with him) before I hung out with him for the first time.

That first hang out that was a random run in of my friends with his friends that started a friendly back and forth feud between groups. He asked me on a date about 2 months after that.

First date was June 1st. Wedding venue and date chosen 6 months later. Engaged in January. Married in September. So, about 14 months?

We were 28 and 32. I never wanted to get married and never thought about it with anyone I had been with before him. He had recently ended a long term relationship that was just not good. I was nervous that I was a rebound, but here we are married almost 15 years. I don't think that I am an easy person to be with but he still adores the hell out of me

[moreace01]

Ex-h - 7 years. Together 12 total.

Current parner - 6 years. Which is wild - I can't believe it's been that long.

[katfco]

13 months from the first date, but we met in our freshman year of college and started dating middle of our senior year. Got engaged 5 months after we started dating and got married 8 months later, in grad school. My mom worried we were rushing until she realized we'd known each other for 4 years already.

[Pilsy]

16 months from first date to wedding.

First date to engagement was 6 months.

[glw]

4 years. We were friends for a year before we started dating.

[dcn]

6 years. We met when we were 19!

[mcmel]

3.5 years

[turkletsmom]

Met- April 2007
Engaged- July 2008
Married- Oct 2010- we wanted a big wedding and needed time to save for it

I can't believe the time has passed so quickly. I was 28 when we got married and refer to myself as a child bride lol.

[TR]

3 years 6 days. I only know the days because it’s so close together lol. Our engagement was only 3 months of that because the wedding was so small & easy to plan.

[Bad Dingo]

We dated for 7 years before the wedding (the last year and a half of that we were engaged). It'll be 27 years together in May, which I can't quite wrap my brain around.

[madringal]

2 years 4 days

We had been best friends for 10 years prior to our first date so things got pretty serious pretty quickly.

[livinitup]

22 months dating, 12 months engaged. The entire time (minus one month before the wedding when I moved) dating long distance. We joked that we never saw each other on a Wednesday until we were married.

[eddy]

Almost 3 years. We were in college so certainly needed those three years to be sure.

[macmars45]

Met August 15, 2007.

First date Sept 15, 2007. Dated for 1 yr 2 weeks

Engaged Sept 27, 2008. Our engagement was 8.5 months.

Married June 13, 2009.

All in total we were together 1 year & 9 months before we married. We were long distance 1 year and 2 months of that time.

Sometimes I think about how wild it was that I met H at 21 and was married to him at 23. (H isn't quite a year older than me so he was 24.) No regrets 15 years later. But still, wild.

[ssmjlm]

Met Nov 2006, Engaged Nov 2007, Married Oct 2008

[strawberry]

We “dated” for 9 1/2 years. I say it like that because, we were basically married, except for the paperwork. We lived together for the majority of that time. We were engaged about a year and a half after we met. We had a nice long engagement. 😄 We’ve been married 10 1/2 years now. So together a total of 20 years.

[bex1973]

Met July 2009
Engaged Feb 2010
Married Dec 2010

Some folks thought it was "fast" but whatever. We were a little older and it was also a 2nd marriage for H.

[dontlook]

Got engaged after 6 months
1.5 years of being engaged
Total 2 years together before marrying
I was 23. I’m sure our parents were wtf-ing us hard. We’ve been married for 13 years and we feel very solid but with how quick everything was plus our young ages I feel very lucky this is working so well.

[sunshineluv]

Dec 14, 2022 9:25:51 GMT -5 Pilsy said:

16 months from first date to wedding.

First date to engagement was 6 months.

Almost exactly this

Engaged after 6 months, married 13 months after first date. We have been married for 12 years.

ETA he was 23 and I was 29 when we met, I thought his friends and family would be like wtf, but everyone was supportive of our relationship.

[mofongo]

A little over 2 years, engaged after 1, and married a year later.

[maudefindlay]

Almost 2 years. Met and started dating Oct 2003 and married Sept 2005. My DH was in the newspaper for being one of our city's most eligible bachelors, big lol and he thought it was hilarious too. One of my friends contacted him and set us up and that was that.

[indianchica]

We were coworkers who worked on research projects during the work day and into the evenings. So some of our dates were really just grabbing dinner before the next experiment. Working together starting Jan '02, shift in the relationship about a year later, engaged Oct '04, married Aug '05.