Long terms of Relationship...

i guess it does not matter how long you were bf/gf before you got married, it is how you love each other and how well you both can adjust on each others short coming. me and my wife after 6 months of relationship we started living in. we got a place and we live together for 3 years, then from then on decided and planned to get married. we are married not for 8 years turning 9 this august. our marriage is getting stronger and better, i am glad that we are one of those who can surpass storm holding each others hands. good for you too. we are both lucky to find someone who we can go gray with.

Hi mods196221! When I had a relationship with my boyfried who is now my husband I was not thinking of having a short or a long term relationship. In fact, we just enjoyed each other's company that when he proposed, I did not have any second thoughts. I believe that the length of the relationship is not very important but the quality of relationship is. We have quite a unique one because we went steady for 6 months and another 6 months far from from each other. It was hard to bridge the distance since we only have snail mail letters and expensive phone calls but we were able to persist. I think that we truly love each other because we ended up with each other. Now, we have been married for 14 years and I can say that we are still, madly, deeply, in love with each other. Thanks for a great discussion and taking the time to read this response!

My husband and I were together for almost 4 years before we got married. We were still in College when we married. And I think that if I didn't get pregnant right away, we could have been married at least 2 years more after College graduation because of our plans. But really, I don't think there is just enough amount of time to know a person well. No matter how long or short time you have been together and you know in your hearts that you are ready to take the responsibility, then it is okay to get married and start a family.

i think the important things is that you really love each other and can accept and respect one another in all the situations and conditions life put us through. I do not believe there is a certain time need to be together before getting married. However it is good to learn to know each others sides and your true selves of each other.

I honestly don't think you can plan out and make quidelines or expectations on when something will happen in a relationship. What will be will be; and it will happen when it feels right. Everybody is different and everyone has their own opinions about love and relationships but there is no right and wrong. You don't decide, your heart does. I am 17 and me and boyfriend have been in a relationship for nearly 3 years now. It started off as just a high-school sweetheart sort of thing, but now I honestly believe I'll spend the rest of my life with him. In my opinion I am far too young to get married anyway, but our relationship is stronger and has lasted longer than most adults older than me that have. The fact is because of our age just being with eachother is all we want now, and we wouldn't have it any other way, that's what feels right to us. Although, If we were older who knows things could be different we could have been married by now :) hopefully though we've got all of that to look forward to!

Hi, I'm already in three years long distance relationship. And we are already talking of settling things between us.Yeah, probably it is not about the longer your become boyfriends/girlfriends but how love is alive between you as day by day comes. There are no responsible persons about that relationship but the two of you.

I don't think that there is any strict amount of time that you can be with someone before you get married, because you just have to take every relationship as an individual and what's right for one couple might not be what is the right thing for another. I have been with my partner for almost three years now, and I know that there is nobody else who I would rather be with, but getting married is something that I just don't want to do yet. I am still quite young, so I'm not saying that I won't get married in the future, but I just know that it's not something that I want to be doing right now.