How long should you wait before getting engaged?
The question to this age-old debate seems to never have a concise answer. How long should you wait before getting engaged? No one can really give an exact number. After all, not every couple is the same and not every couple is going through the same predicaments. But most relationship experts give a time line somewhere between 7-9 months.
What do you think? How long should you wait before getting engaged?
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Comments (9)
7-9 months??! That’s way too fast. I would say a year or two. Definitely no longer than 4 years or so.
Definitely not 7-9 months! Who wrote that? I think one year is enough time. My boyfriend and I currently going on 3+ years of waiting
!! But..someday he’ll propose. Someday!
Relationship Experts? What expert in the world would suggest that!? CROCK.
I think 12 months is enough time. I don’t see the reason to rush into it. My fiance and I waited a year and half. To be honest, I knew I wanted to marry him around month 2. LOL! But we decided to wait and make sure we truly wanted to be committed to each other. I mean marriage is a huge thing, it’s not some kind of game of who can snag a man the fastest. You should definitely slow down and take your time.
Well my boyfriend and I met at a wedding, dated for a month then broke up for different life reasons, 6 months later reconnected and began talking, started going out 3 weeks ago officially and are now looking at rings. Looking back, i knew it was love at first sight as did he, once you know you know! You absolutely want to know about a person as much as you can, that’s why we are doing pr-marriage counseling with our pastor, as for that gut feeling, starry eyed, heart thumping, can’t live without you feeling… well it happens for everyone at different times. So go with your heart!
7-9 months is absolute crap. Not that I’m saying people that do that are in the wrong, but I feel like to truly know someone well enough to marry them, you have to have been dating at LEAST a year/year and a half. My boyfriend and I were dating over two years before the subject was seriously discussed, and I feel like we’re on much more solid ground because of it
7-9 months?? Sounds like a celebrity “whirlwind romance!” …. and we all know how THose turn out! I would say somewhere around the year and a half mark because then you have to plan the wedding and everything which gives you another maybe 4-6 months with your fiance, so by the time you get married you’ve actually been with him for 2 years, maybe even more.
It seems to be a short amount of time to get to know one another. I suppose every relationship is different, but I think 2 years would be appropriate. I have been with my boyfriend now for almost 9 years. We got together in Junior High, yeah 8th grade and lasted through college. We are not currently engaged, but I am popping the question this year in December. If you leave it up to a man, sometimes it’ll never get done. My question is, when is long, too long to wait for a proposal? lol.
A load of crap? I don’t think so. I knew 1 month in that this was the man I wanted to marry and I let him know that I would know if I wanted a commitment within 6 months, now we’re engaged. If you know, you know. Why waste your time with someone who’s wasting yours?