<p>Did you have a short engagement or a long one? How early is too early to marry in your opinion? Did you meet your spouse and marry them soon after meeting them?</p>
<p>Met hubby, moved in together about 3 months after dating, married about a year later, if I am figuring things correctly…</p>
<p>Did you just know, anxiousmom, that he was the one from the start?</p>
<p>Met at work on my first day. Engaged 3 months later. Married one year after that. 35 years in October. I was 22, he was 29.</p>
<p>Met at age 28 and dated for a year and a half, then engaged for another year and a half and married at 31. I guess that is a longer engagement. I didn’t know with certainty that he was the one for about a year.</p>
<p>My 11th anniversary is on 11/11/11 :-)</p>
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<p>Met at ages 22 and 25, engaged 5 months later and married 10 months after that. We will be celebrating our 28th this Saturday!</p>
<p>Met in 1980 (ages 22 & 25), married in 1990, empty nesters in 2011!</p>
<p>Met in college; we disagree exactly when. She was 19; I 20. Didn’t get romantically involved until after I graduated, about 15 months later, but we became friends quickly and in retrospect both were interested almost immediately. (I certainly was.) </p>
<p>We didn’t get engaged until four+ years after that, two spent living together most of the time (years 2 & 3) and two spent living 200, 3,000, then 150 miles apart (years 1 & 4). Some important maturing together happened during that period. While we both knew this was a really important thing in our lives, we had to grow up and learn how to deal with a committed relationship.</p>
<p>We married a little less than a year further on, when we were finally able to live in the same place. We were 27 and 25 at the time. A lot of our friends got married that year or the next.</p>
<p>Met my DH in late February, moved in together in November and got married the following December. We will celebrate our 35th anniversary in December.</p>
<p>My wife knew we were going to get married before she met me. She saw my name listed as one of the employees where we worked and told a friend, “I am going to marry him.” The last two syllables of my last name were the same as the last two syllables of her cats names. And my name is not common. So she knew…</p>
<p>We met. We were friends for two years. And then something clicked and we knew we were going to be more than friends. I knew it. She knew it. And she fought me because she knew if our relationship went further we were going to be married. And she didn’t want to get married because she felt she was too young. She gave me crap like she couldn’t date me because of some other guy. The other guy was a very nice guy. Also gay.
Told me when my career took off…that it was time to chuck my career and move to Africa. That didn’t happen.</p>
<p>We did get married. She had no choice. It was destiny. And we have been together for 30 years.</p>
<p>We started dating when I was 17 and he was 19, after meeting at our mutual summer job in a swimming pool store, and we married when I was 21 and he was 23. I had graduated from college two days earlier.</p>
<p>My kids think I was stark raving nuts to get married that young. I am inclined to agree. What was my younger self thinking?</p>
<p>At least my husband and I had the common sense not to become parents right away. In fact, we waited 10 years!</p>
<p>We dated for 10 months, we were engaged for an additional 10 months so we knew each other for a total of 20 months before we got married. We met at ages 25 and 29.</p>
<p>Met when I was 20, he was 22. Moved in together 5 months later, due to a move for work. We bought a house 3 years later, were engaged right after moving in and married 6 months later engagement. We became empty nesters this year also, after nearly 28 years of marriage.</p>
<p>Met H in another country 12 days before I left to come home after a year’s stay. After 4 days, we talked marriage and he bought me a ring. This was summer. I went back to visit for 3 weeks at Christmas, he came for a month in the spring, and we got married the following August. This was pre-Internet, of course, so there were a lot of phone calls and volumes of letters. </p>
<p>We just celebrated 32 years.</p>
<p>I met DH on a vacation and knew I would marry him before the vacation was over. We lived in different cities and had a commuter relationship. Got engaged less than 3 months after we first met; were married 6 months after that. Have been happily married for over 22 years. Though it was a fairly short courtship, when we were together we spent lots of concentrated time together - entire weekends (usually Friday night until Monday morning); so it seemed like more than just 3 months of “dates” and I really think we got to know each other well in that short time.
I was in my late 20’s and DH was 30 (which seemed a bit old at the time! Not now, though…) In that regard, I wouldn’t want my kids to get married until they are at least in their mid-twenties. I’d like for them to have some time to be on their own (keeping my fingers crossed that they WILL be on their own and not living in my basement after graduation!!! 
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<p>We met in high school through our youth group while I was kinda dating his best friend. We were 16 and he was looking for a date for a dance coming up; I suggested he go with me! He didn’t buy that, so we ended up double dating; he went with my cousin and I went with his best friend. A few months later we started dating and dated for 6 years before getting married at 23. </p>
<p>We have been married for 31 years so I guess I ended up with the right guy Whenever I speak of my husband’s best friend, I refer to him in front of the kids as the man that could have been their daddy if I hadn’t married their father! Once they were older and realized the humor and understood genetics it became a running joke.</p>
<p>Met in 1980 and dated exclusively as soon as we met. However, we did not spend a lot of time together as I was going to school and working nights. Engaged 1986 - a month after I got a day job! Married 5 months later. I was 31, he was 29.</p>
<p>Though we are both from the same country, we met in another country where we both worked. Dated 18 months, lived together 6 years before getting married. Probably would still not be married but for my clock ticking and desire to have children in wedlock. Have been married 24 years now.</p>