spinoff of kcb's "significant other" thread- how long?

We met on the internet in June or July 2001, and I hated him! Like seriously couldn't stand him at all! Then something changed a month or so later, still not sure what, but something did. We met IRL Sept. 19, 2001, the day he came to pick me up to move me to the Netherlands. There was really no dating at all and that made it a bit rough at times, but we were engaged for 9 years, been married 1 1/2 and I don't regret a single moment.
 
I met DH online in end of May 2002... we emailed a couple of times and then he disappeared until end of August when he emailed me just like that - someone forgot to tell me that he was going to Italy for two months on business! :D

First date was Sept 4, 2002... I knew by the second date, he was the one... he on the other hand, was just looking a friend... but I got to him... ;) We were engaged in November of 2003 - my mom was just diagnosis with breast cancer (she said that a mother had to do what she had to do - get cancer to finally get the boy to propose... *sigh*)

We were married on Sept 4, 2004... the anniversary of our first date... Davie claims that was screwed by leap year... we had talked about marriage before he proposed and I said wouldn't it be cool to get married on the anniversary of our first date... him thinking that would be years away... agreed... hee hee... yeah, it was the next year!
 
I met my DH online in May of 2004...we talked and talked for hours on the IM and phone (he wound up giving me a cell because I didn't have one...was much easier and cheaper when we were gabbing for 6 hours a day LOL).
He drove 8 hrs to meet me in person July 2004...by this point we felt like we were best friends. Love at first sight. We saw each other about once a month, and I had a ring on my finger by the end of the summer. We got married that December.
 
yeah, we dated for 6/7 years until we married at 23. We also had a 5 yr old and I was 7 months pregnant with a second at that time. lol My mil married her husband after 3 months, I think they got engaged after 6 weeks. They were happily married for a few decades before he passed away, too. I do not know, I think when you know... you know. Or I could be a romantic sap! lol
 
We dated for 4 years (may 1989 to Nov 1993). Moved in together after a year. Neither of us was in any rush to get married. I was in grad school when we got together. & he was working. Then financially it was better for both of us to remain single when DH decided to go back to school. He proposed two months before he finished up.

I'd known him for a year or so before we started dating. We were both seeing other people then
 
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My husband and I are currently getting a divorce, but I will still answer. ;) We started dating in December of 2000, moved in together the following June, got in engaged in July and then finally slowed down and got married 15 months later. While we are divorcing now, we are still friends and get along just fine. When he is home, we actually hang out together even without our son. I don't regret it.
 
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YepBrook said:
I knew when I met him that he was marriage material!!! We waited 4 years to get married because I was too young (we started dating when I was 18). During that time I lived with my parents (we never moved in with each other) and he found a better job. I don't regret the time we dated before tying the knot. :) I DO regret waiting another 4 years to have kids. :p
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I kinda wish we would have had kids sooner too.


We met in high school. He was a freshman, I was a sophomore. We had a computers class together. He was only on my radar because he was a punk who liked to stir up trouble in class. He managed to get himself in trouble so many times that the teacher moved him to the front of the room next to me. I later found out he was best friends with my friend's younger brother. We occasionally hung out at the same place since my friend didn't drive and her brother did but we never really talked or anything. Come my senior year we had physics class together. Our teacher was the type to have students work together a lot and a big group of us became pretty close friends. This is when Sean and I first started to get to know one another. He dated a few different girls over the course of that year as well. He also became a teenage father that year.

After I graduated I moved from Arizona to Kansas. I had gotten addresses from tons of people before I moved so that I could keep in touch. He was one of the first people I wrote to. I didn't hear back from him for over a month but when I did I got this huge 10 page letter. He was in Pennsylvania visiting his dad, his mom had forwarded the letter to him and he spent a good 2 weeks writing a little here and there as he worked with his dad, visited his sister, etc. After that we kept in touch through letters for over a year. He called me at Christmas but that was the only time we talked on the phone. We kind of lost touch though after he graduated. A year after that my friend got married (the one whose little brother Sean was best friends with) and I went home to Arizona for her wedding. Sean was at the wedding. He was engaged though and living with his fiancee. Some drunk dude kept bugging me so to get him away from me Sean asked me to dance. When we were dancing he told me he regretted that we had never dated. We had became pretty close through those letters (we're talking 8-15 pages every week!).

Long story but the wedding was on Saturday. On Thursday he called and asked me out to the movies (I was still visiting, staying with my aunt). My aunt had told me that he came by a few times looking for me but I had lots of friends to see so I wasn't there all the time. When he called I figured he meant with him and his fiancee. I had went to their place and hung out with them after the reception a little so I figured it would be the 3 of us. He was alone when he picked me up. I asked him where she was and he said he broke up with her. He wanted to be with me.

We hung out a lot over the next few days. He came over and got to know my aunt, uncle and cousins and everything. I left to come back home on Oct. 1st and on the 3rd he told me he was moving to Kansas. On the 30th he showed up on my doorstep (I still lived at home with my grandma, he moved in with us). A month later we got our own place. We moved in together before we ever really dated.

We lived together for 2 years before he engaged (on the 2 year anniversary of that movie date in Arizona). We were married 20 months after that (long engagement but we were paying for everything ourselves and we were also trying to work around all of our family members who were coming in out of state so finding a date was hard). We waited another 4 years before we had kids.

In May we will have been married 14 years, together for 18 and will have known each other for 23 years. Sean was 19 when we moved in together and I was 20. He was 22 (4 days shy of 23) and I was 24 when we got married.
 
We met in October 1999, bought a house in June 2002 and proposed at our housewarming party, got pregnant in November 2002, got married in May 2003 and had our daughter in July 2003. We did things a little wonky and backwards but we were ok with that. We now have a son and are still going strong. :)
 
We met online in Feb '99, met in person in April and got engaged in August. We were engaged for about 21 months before marrying in April 2001.
 
we met in Aug 1991, moved in together in Jan 1992 {we were both active duty navy at the time}, he deployed in the ship in Aug 1992 and 2 weeks later I found out I was pregnant, then we got married in Dec 1992.....bought a house in 2010, I retired in 2011 and 4 kids and 20 years later we are still together! BUT, we were seperated on 2 different occasions {luckily we only had 1 child at the time} and the last time we got back together was Dec 1999 and the only time we have been seperated since is when I had to spend 8 months in Kuwait :(
 
We met in school in 1998, and were friends for about a year. Got together July 1999, dated for six years before getting married in 2006. Been married six years :) And yup, sometimes I still have those moments where I can't believe I can call him husband :)
 
i met darik in 1997. we dated for a few months, then broke up. we got back together in 1999 (well, if you wanna get specific, it was december 12, 1998). we dated for a year and a half and then were engaged for a year and a half
 
I met DH in July 2003, started dating at the end of August, we got engaged on December 17, and were married in July of 2004! 8 years coming up!
 
We met in April 03, started dating when I got back from Australia/New Zealand in late July 03, got engaged 10 months later April 30, 2004 and were married 14 months later on July 9, 2005.

My cousin Mark was in a rock band and I drove up to the city for a pre-show party and to listen to the band play in April. Then I disappeared for a few months and we met back up at the end of July when the band played again. We were together every weekend after that!

We had a longer engagement because I was an elementary teacher and had to wait until summer vacation. DH and I lived two hours away so commuting wasn't an option. We were planning on getting married in Fiji, which turned to Vegas so more people could come, which eventually tuned into an almost 400 person guest list in my hometown and I lived in such a small rural area that everything booked so far out so we couldn't plan it in a few months.

Neither of us were looking to date let alone get married. We were both happily single. Almost 9 years and 4 boys later...life is great.
 
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I met my husband online! We IM'd back and forth for about a month, then exchanged phone numbers and talked on the phone for another month or two before I would agree to meet him. We finally met and there was really no spark there- more of a friendship. We went out a few times but then he stopped calling me.

Fast forward to 9/11 and he sent an email to all of his friends and family letting them know he was not in NYC that day and he was safe. I happened to be on the list and emailed him back just saying hey and glad he wasnt in NYC that day. We started emailing back and forth, then it went to IM'ing for a while. We went on our "2nd first day" the 2nd week of December. We stated dating exclusively in February. Easter 2002 I met his family for the first time and I "KNEW" that he was the one. He asked me to marry him a month later and then we got married October 2002.
 
As I said in the other thread, my relationship with my husband seemed to happen on fast forward, 10 months from start to finish. We'd only been dating for about three weeks when I knew I loved him. I can still see it all so clearly in my mind. He was in my hometown working for a construction company from Missouri and was staying in an efficiency apartment. This place was incredibly small and only had one comfy chair and a bed. We were watching TV with him sitting in the chair and me sitting on the floor leaning back against his legs. He said something and when I leaned my head back to answer him, the words just froze in my mouth and I started at him for what seemed like forever. He finally grinned and said it just hit you, didn't it? I said what? He said it just hit you that you love me. And I started to cry because he was so right and I couldn't believe any one could be so in tune with me. A few weeks later my hubby's job was sending him to Arizona and I was packing my bags so we could go to Vegas and get married first. When I told my parents I was leaving to get married they were stunned because they had never met him. Boy was my mom pi$$ed at me, she was convinced he was an ax murder, and we didn't talk for a few months after I left. My dad was stunned, but he tried very hard to be supportive and actually got to know my husband over the phone after we had married and moved to Arizona. My son asked me once if I regretted what appears to be a hasty decision with a sad ending, but as I told him I think when you know, you know and that sometimes 10 short months can be a lifetime. It was the happiest time of my life. :)

Good luck with your relationship Honey, I hope you are extremely happy!
 
We met our sophomore year in college but didn't start dating until our senior year. First date was in September of 1996, engaged in December of 1997 and married in October of 1998. It will be 16 years together this fall and 14 years of marriage. I knew after our first date that he was the one.
 
I met my husband through a match site about 12 years ago. I was a single mother and didn't like going out and missing out on time with my daughter. A month after we met, he asked me to marry him and we have been together since. It was crazy when he did but seemed so right and now, I have to admit I have the best husband!
 
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