A question for those who are truly happily married...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2 months long distance (3 or 4 weekends together)
6 months
4 years

You moved in with each other after only spending 3 or 4 weekends together??

Crazy I know. I was young and wreckless but here we are 4 years later, two happy peas in a pod.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Two and a half years of dating.

Never lived together.

I was 21 when we married and he was 25.

Happily married 56 years until his death nine years ago. I still miss him every day.

Your post is very touching to me because our lives are so similar...two years of dating, never lived together, I was 21 and he was 24, happily married for 46 years until his death earlier this year. I greatly miss my husband every day as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two and a half years of dating.

Never lived together.

I was 21 when we married and he was 25.

Happily married 56 years until his death nine years ago. I still miss him every day.

Your post is very touching to me because our lives are so similar...two years of dating, never lived together, I was 21 and he was 24, happily married for 46 years until his death earlier this year. I greatly miss my husband every day as well.

Both of your posts brought tears to my eyes - I am so sorry for your losses but how wonderfully blessed you both were to have had such good and loving marriages.

[Anonymous]

2yrs dating, 1 yr engagement
Never lived together
28 years at time of marriage
Married 15 years now

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How long did you date before you lived together?

How long did you live together before you got married?

How old were you when you got married?

6 months

6 months

me - 33/him - 39 (first marriage for both)

Been married for 10 years now with 2 kids and going strong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two and a half years of dating.

Never lived together.

I was 21 when we married and he was 25.

Happily married 56 years until his death nine years ago. I still miss him every day.

Your post is very touching to me because our lives are so similar...two years of dating, never lived together, I was 21 and he was 24, happily married for 46 years until his death earlier this year. I greatly miss my husband every day as well.

I am the widowed poster, Friend, and I am so very sorry for your loss. Please believe me when I tell you that it does get easier and it does get "sweeter" if that makes any sense. My memories bring me only joy and smiles now when right after his death even happy memories brought me sorrow. I do miss him every day but my grieving has ended and even the "missing" is sweetly comforting. The first two years after my husband's death were by far the hardest of my entire life.

I dream that the afterlife is like the ending of that old movie "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir". It is silly but it gives me comfort.

All the best to you, Friend.

[Anonymous]

How long did you date before you lived together? - 1.5 yrs, but we knew each other a couple of years before we started dating

How long did you live together before you got married? - got engaged just after we bought the house together - 1 yr engagement

How old were you when you got married? -- me just turned 33, DH just turned 39

[Anonymous]

Dated for two years before we got married. Did not live together before marriage. Married eleven years.

[Anonymous]

Never lived together. Got engaged after dating 8months, married after another 8months.

[Anonymous]

We dated for 13 months before moving in together. Live together for 14 months before getting engaged. Got married 5 months after that. Very happily married.

[Anonymous]

2 years dated
lived together 1 year
married at 21/23 ... going on 14 years

[Anonymous]

6 years

5 years

29 (me), 30 (him)

[Anonymous]

How long did you date before you lived together? We moved in together after 9 months (neither of us had ever lived with a s/o before)

How long did you live together before you got married? We got engaged at one year, married at two years.

How old were you when you got married? I was 28, he was 25.

[Anonymous]

We dated for a year and three months before we were married. We didn't live together until we were married.
I was 26 when I got married; he was 32.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We dated for a year and three months before we were married. We didn't live together until we were married.
I was 26 when I got married; he was 32.

We have been married 9 years.