Celebrating dating anniversaries

[Anonymous]

Do you celebrate your anniversaries if you aren't married but dating for years?

[Anonymous]

Um, no. I'm not 15.

[Anonymous]

We did. But DH and I were together 14 years before we got married. So we did celebrate anniversary of our first date. We don't anymore, now we just celebrate our wedding anniversary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Um, no. I'm not 15.

This isn't 1915, lots of people date for years and many never marry. You don't need a license to celebrate a milestone.

[Anonymous]

My exDH didn’t even celebrate our marriage anniversaries. Or my birthday and if it were up to him holidays either.

[Anonymous]

My husband and I note the weekend we started dating (presidents day), but don't actively celebrate it. One of us (usually him, actually) will just say, "hey, we had our first date this weekend X number of years ago!".

[Anonymous]

^ been married 25 years and my husband does this for the day we met. I sometimes forget that

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My husband and I note the weekend we started dating (presidents day), but don't actively celebrate it. One of us (usually him, actually) will just say, "hey, we had our first date this weekend X number of years ago!".

That's sweet.

[Anonymous]

It was a Friday the 13th almost 25 years ago, but yes, we still go out to dinner (and ask the waiter to take a picture of us… we look so old now…) every year on that date.

We don’t celebrate our anniversary since that was dictated by our schedules. In fact, we’ve both just forgotten about it multiple times.

[Anonymous]

I have married friends who have been together since high school. They've now been married long enough to have four children and they still celebrate both their wedding anniversary and their dating anniversary. It gives them something to look forward to together every 6 months. I think it's very sweet.

[Anonymous]

I am not saying everyone who celebrates a dating anniversary is this way but I am saying that everyone I know who does so publicly seems to be attention seeking.

[Anonymous]

We recognize it but don't consistently celebrate it. It falls about a week after Valentines Day so sometimes it's an in-lieu-of Valentines, or sometimes we do nothing.
Dated and lived together 5 years before marriage, and during that time we did celebrate it as an anniversary.

[Anonymous]

We don't celebrate it, but we met on July 4, so it's hard not to mention it! Our wedding anniversary is within a couple of weeks of that, so it's silly to celebrate it twice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Um, no. I'm not 15.

This isn't 1915, lots of people date for years and many never marry. You don't need a license to celebrate a milestone.

It’s still incredibly dumb and puerile.

And yeah, you kind of do need a formal event to happen in order to invoke an annual homage. Coffee at the local Starbucks on a Wednesday afternoon isn’t gonna cut it.

Do you also have a “song” too?

How maudlin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am not saying everyone who celebrates a dating anniversary is this way but I am saying that everyone I know who does so publicly seems to be attention seeking.

Not talking about social celebrations and lovey dovey posts, just personal celebration, something special.