How long should you be/were you dating before getting married???

I am not married yet but I am still young. I dated the guy I am currently with for 3 years. We broke up for a while, but never stopped seeing eachother. (confusing relationship we were basically a couple the whole time) So a part of me wants to say we were together for 6 years, lol. Looking back, everything was lovey dovey the world is perfect in every way for the first year. I believe couples should stick together past that stage. (Yeah some couples always seem madly in love to no end) However eventually I think a lot of couples get to the old-married-couple stage of possible boredom and a lot of fights break out because you learn about each other's differences. If you can pass that stage and learn to over come your disagreements, learn how to disagree and work out problems nicely, can handle eachother's quirks, and come to love that 'comfort' in the relationship then it's a great time to be married. I think there is such a thing as waiting too long too. If you wait too long people may start to wonder what the hold up is and wonder if the other partner has committment issues. Being with my man for all these years, we are at that comfort stage. We don't bother each other, having the other around for long periods of time does not bother us. We can be ourselves, and not feel like we always have to talk. It's comfortable, and yet we have times where we do still act like first time loves. I think after overcoming all that we did and still are close, it's a great time for that marriage.

My husband and I were together for 5 years before we got married. If we had our way though we would have been married sooner. We were engaged after just 6 months. I do think it is better to live with someone before you marry them so you know you can stand them.

I was with my boyfriend now husband for 1 year before he proposed to me and 1.5years when we got married.:) i think its important to date and get to know each other well enough first ebfore you decide to get married. Its that crucial stage to get to know the person better to be able to know if he/she is really the one.

I lived with my husband for 2 years before we got married. We knew each other for several months before moving in together. I know that some people think living together is a sin and not very moral, but I think that it was a good idea in my situation. We knew everything about each other. We knew all about the quirks that new brides and gooms don't. :)

My wife and I dated for 8 months and then got engaged. We were engaged for a year, then got married. That year we somewhat lived togehter. I had my own apartment but stayed at her place most of the time.

I am about also after a year get married.but now I felling we still understanding not enough.Along with two people together of time lengthen.Will be a lot of you at premarital can not the problem of the detection,May also vary from person to person!

I think that in a year or two you can know your love and you could marry with him/her!:)

My husband and I only "dated" for four months before we got engaged. I put it in quotes because he was stationed 1000 miles away the whole time. We went on three dates when he was home in August (including our first) and then when he came home for Christmas, he asked me to marry him. Then the next time he came home was for our wedding in May. So from our first date, to our wedding day, it was 9 months and 3 days. Everyone says we rushed into it. We've been married for almost 2 years now and are still very happy. We have a baby boy and it's the life both of us want. I don't think we rushed too fast.

My husband and I have been married for six years. We started dating in Dec 1998, then lived together from July-Dec 1999, got engaged in December 1999, and then married in June 2001. We had a son in July 2002.

I've been with my partner for over 6 years now, and have know i wanted to marry him for ages. We got engaged over a year ago now (exactly 5 years after meeting) but as yet our lives have been to hectic to plan a wedding, so it's kinda on hold right now! I don't know if there's an ideal length of time to be together before marriage. I guess it depends on the couple in question!

me and my girl are planning to get married in august. So, in august will be exactly 4,5 years that we are dating.

I don't like seeing couples getting engaged before they even have an anniversary. I mean come on! You think you know the person but I'm sure there is still a lot you don't know about them. You're probably still in the "madly in love" phase where everything they do is perfect and blah blah blah. But for me I would say that I would want to wait at least three-five years, and at most...seven. Wait not that I think of it seven seems long...but I'll stick with it =D.