10 years together in November and he's still just my boyfriend
Congratulations, that's amazing! Happy to have read that10 years together in November and he's still just my boyfriend
Last week he took me for a lovely night away and proposed, so we are engaged after 9 years 11 months!
Maybe he's been stalking bnb
We got together young (both 19) and are 24 now - we are on the same page in regards to marriage which is what makes me wonder why he's not asked yet. I'm definitely not worried about commitment He said he feels too young, so I guess I just have to be patient! It's nice to know that others think 5 years is an okay time frame though - makes me feel more 'normal' Nice to hear about people getting engaged 5yrs+ as wellI think 5 years is a perfectly okay time frame if you got together young or have other things going on and didn't feel the need to rush. We've recently been to weddings of two different couples who are friends of ours who were together for 9 years and 10 years before getting engaged. But they both met fairly young (18/19 ish?), so they got engaged and married at the same ages as most of the rest of us did (late 20s/early 30s), they just didn't waste so many years in dead end relationships trying to find each other. We have other friends who are getting married next year who met about the same time we did, which was 7 years ago (in that same time, we've gotten engaged, been married 4 years and have a nearly 3 year old), but they also own a house, work ridiculous hours in really high pressure jobs, and also had a lot of hang-ups about what engagement ring they wanted. They literally looked at rings for like 2 years and stressed about saving up enough money. We don't own a house or have as much money saved as they do and my ring doesn't cost anywhere near as much because none of that was important to us. Sometimes people just take a bit longer while they're doing other things. I think as long as you think the commitment isn't the problem (as in, he's stalling because he actually doesn't want to be with you, which it doesn't sound like that's the case at all), then I think it's fine for it to take a bit longer, but if it's not working for you, definitely worth talking about so you can both be on the same page about what you want to happen in the future.
Yep, I'd nearly given up on himAww congratulations that's wonderful, were you completely surprised?x
Congratulations, that's amazing! Happy to have read that10 years together in November and he's still just my boyfriend
Last week he took me for a lovely night away and proposed, so we are engaged after 9 years 11 months!
Maybe he's been stalking bnb
We got together young (both 19) and are 24 now - we are on the same page in regards to marriage which is what makes me wonder why he's not asked yet. I'm definitely not worried about commitment He said he feels too young, so I guess I just have to be patient! It's nice to know that others think 5 years is an okay time frame though - makes me feel more 'normal' Nice to hear about people getting engaged 5yrs+ as wellI think 5 years is a perfectly okay time frame if you got together young or have other things going on and didn't feel the need to rush. We've recently been to weddings of two different couples who are friends of ours who were together for 9 years and 10 years before getting engaged. But they both met fairly young (18/19 ish?), so they got engaged and married at the same ages as most of the rest of us did (late 20s/early 30s), they just didn't waste so many years in dead end relationships trying to find each other. We have other friends who are getting married next year who met about the same time we did, which was 7 years ago (in that same time, we've gotten engaged, been married 4 years and have a nearly 3 year old), but they also own a house, work ridiculous hours in really high pressure jobs, and also had a lot of hang-ups about what engagement ring they wanted. They literally looked at rings for like 2 years and stressed about saving up enough money. We don't own a house or have as much money saved as they do and my ring doesn't cost anywhere near as much because none of that was important to us. Sometimes people just take a bit longer while they're doing other things. I think as long as you think the commitment isn't the problem (as in, he's stalling because he actually doesn't want to be with you, which it doesn't sound like that's the case at all), then I think it's fine for it to take a bit longer, but if it's not working for you, definitely worth talking about so you can both be on the same page about what you want to happen in the future.