How long did you know you spouse before you married?

United States
January 9, 2007 6:41pm CST
I think it is important to really know someone before you marriy, but other have had great marriages when they got married right after they met. So how long did you know each other before you tied the knot?
19 responses
• Philippines
16 Jun 09
I am not yet married but my fiance asked me to marry him while he was still courting me. Of course I did not accept because at that time I thought that he was just telling me that because he wanted me to be his girl. But as our relationship grows deeper, I realized that he is telling the truth. I've known him for 2 years now and we've been together for almost a year and a half.
• United States
28 Jan 07
I knew my spouse since i was in high school. We hung out together with a group of friends, but we never dated any. We didnt' get together until after we were both out of high school, and we were at the same gasstation.
• United States
16 Jan 07
I haven't gotten married just yet, but I have known my fiance for six years now, and we've lived together for one and a half years. I think it's really important to know every aspect of your mate before you tie the knot. Without full disclosure of personality, how do you know you really want to marry that person?
• Philippines
18 Jan 07
3 months already when my meet my husband,5months when we engage.before to make a year we got marriages.it so fast hahahaha!!!!
@chebin (286)
• Philippines
18 Jan 07
i've known my husband way back in high school... we've been friends for 9 yrs before he courted me... we've been dating after 9 yrs of friendship... we tied the knot after four years... and now have a little angel ( 4-month old) after 1 1/2 year of marriage :-)
• United States
21 Jan 07
i knew my husband six months bfore our marriage ..but we met only once and then we got engaged ..so whatever we want to know about each other .we had to knw in one day whch was not sufficient for us,,,now after marriage we realised that we both r quite different from each other ..so we both had to do lot of compromises and adjustments to be happy with each other ...but we got adjusted and we like that way only
• El Salvador
10 Jan 07
My husband and I dated for almost a year before we got pregnant with our daughter. We got engaged when I was 7 months pregnant, and by the time we got married, we had been together for one month less than four years.
@ainpat (279)
10 Jan 07
I just know her for only 5 minutes and after those minutes, we got married, that's back in 1992 on June 30.
• India
10 Jan 07
i knew her 8 yrs before marriege,we got a love marriege
• United States
11 Jan 07
I was with my husband for 10 years before we got married. I was 14 when we met and started dating. He was 17. We got engaged at about the 5 yr mark. His job took him away for about 3 years and we planned a wedding and got married when he returned hom permanantly. We have been married for 12-1/2 years and are very very happy. I know everyone is different ~ I cannot imagine only knowing someone for a few days or a few months and then marrying them.
@SaraCate (184)
• Canada
12 Jan 07
I knew my hubby a little over 4 years before we married...but we've always joked that in spirit we were engage within the first few months...:). I think it can work either way, though - depends on both people. ~Sara
• United States
16 Jan 07
I've been with my fiance for three years and we're getting married in about a year, maybe more.
@jojopuff (520)
• United States
11 Jan 07
My husband and I knew each other for a little over 2 years before we got married. We started dating in August 2004 and married in September of 2006!
@sechsey (1831)
• Canada
16 Jan 07
I have known my husband for a year and a half before we decided to get married. Although we both agree that even when we first met, we instantly knew we where right for each other, we decided to wait anyway. ours was a little bit unconventional way of meeting for the first time.
@scottology (1208)
10 Jan 07
i do not have spouse or i am not married
@mayammb (1815)
• Australia
10 Jan 07
Mine was an arranged marriage. So i didn't know him before until i met him and we got engaged and the date of our wedding was fixed for the next month. In that 1 month gap only i got to know him and vise versa and then we finally tied the knot the following month. Now it's going to be 2 years since we married and we r happy.
@classy56 (2880)
• United States
10 Jan 07
i knew my hubby 3 days before i married him.an everyone said it would only last a week because he was a wild one so i had to tame him down.an now we have been together for 15 years almost 16 yrs an are very happy
@wmaharper (2316)
• United States
10 Jan 07
My husband and I knew each other for 3 years before we said I do. We dated for 2 years and we were engaged for 6 months.
@hiitssomu (657)
• United States
10 Jan 07
we are in love eight year before we tied the knot. now we are married for last three years. yes i feel it is very very important to know each other before you get married. i can love someone, i can like someone that doesn't mean that we have to get married. the idea of marraige come from that feelings that when you truely think that one's life is not fully complete without other's. in that case there is no means of staying apart. one more think i beleive that no one can not be a good husband and wife if they are not a very good friend of each other. meet, understand, feel, become friend - these four things can end up with marriage. if somethinh among these foru missed, that means you are in hurry. do you know what i got the gift from my partner on our 10th year of love? guess what ...? a very very cute baby! :-)