How soon did you get Married?

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leschornmom:
I’m just curious, are you catholic? I thought that catholics weren’t supposed to live togther unless they were married.:confused:
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Nope, Agnostic.
 
We met at age 14, and went out a bit. We saw each other from time to time after that. I met my wife again when we were 21. We married at 22, about 1 1/2 years after re-connecting.

Wasn’t exactly love at first sight, but eventually …

Neat how we re-connected. I was a navigator on C-130’s in the RCAF. Her brother was a navigator on another squadron. I bumped into him in Germany, asked about her, found out she was living in the same city as I was stationed, and I looked her up. The rest is history.

Blessings,

Gerry
 
Met my husband in November 2002 at a church Bible study. He knew I was the one that day… it took me a couple of weeks longer. We started dating Feb 2003, he proposed 🙂 in May 2003 (a wonderful surprise) and we were married Dec 27th 2003. It was a wonderfully busy year, God is so good. We’re now approaching our first anniversary and are more in love!
 
I met my wife when I was 14, we dated seven years, and were married after I graduated from college. We’ve been married for 38+ years.
 
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timbo1980:
I’m just curions, why bother getting married then?
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I ask myself the same questions. But it really comes down to the legal issues. That is why I’m all for making everything a civil union. No such thing as “civil marriage” just as there is no such thing as “gay marriage”. A lot of heterosexual couples aren’t married, but they want legal recongition of being “next of kin”. In case of an emergency and joint ownership issues, it makes sense.

I try to always look positive, since i teach pre-cana. When I’m dealing with a co-habitating couple I rejoice because they realize something was missing in their relationship. I rejoice in marriage, but I can’t stand wedding planning for co-habitating couples. I use to hang out on a wedding board years ago. I can’t stand the materialism of weddings. Pet peeve coming here but, couples who are already established and have everything shouldn’t have bridal showers or expect gifts.

We waited 3 year to be married. We had a short engagement. We dated through out college. We waited until we were out, I felt it was unneeded. Not being married actually put more stress on our relationship, because it is some societal taboo not to wait until you graduate.
 
We got engaged 9 months after we met and we married 2 years and 3 months later. We’ve been married 8 and a half great years with four children and God willing we will have more! 🙂
 
I met my husband at 14 yrs. old. We dated on and off throughout high school and college and then beyond. We dated seriously with marriage intended for about 18 months. I didn’t know until the last 18 months that he was the one. However, I do believe it was providential. We married at 27 yrs. old.
 
Started talking on the phone Feb 1998, First date end on March, engaged 47 days after first date. Married January 1999. First daughter born November 1999.

I love telling our story, but I’ll save the details for another thread.

Maria
Mommy to 5, 3, and 1 year olds.
 
My wife and I met on Palm Sunday of 1990. That was March 31 I believe. We were engaged three weeks later. We did however wait until December to Marry. See you can get married during Advent. That was thirteen years ago. Still happily married.
 
My husband and I met in a chat room in April of 1999. We met in person of June 1999. We took turns visiting each other (he in Nebraska, I in Ohio). We got engaged on Thanksgiving 1999 and married in May 2000. We have two beautiful children (4 and 1), the youngest was born on our wedding anniversary 😃 . Our oldest was born at 26 weeks the day before Christmas Eve 2000. She is our miracle child :yup: I cannot picture my life without all three of them 🙂
 
Met when we were 16, in P.E. class, March 1997. We had to stand in alphabetical order. We became engaged December 24, 2000, in honor of my grand parents wedding anniversary. We married July 22, 2001. The first year was hard, the second even harder, then the third came along, and found the Catholic Church. We’ve been on cloud nine ever since. We have one daughter.
 
My nephew, who is an active Jehovah Witness, just met a girl in November and announced right after meeting her that they will be getting married in April. Both have never dated before. They don’t believe in dating, and in order to have sexual relations (which he believes are solely for the purpose of begetting children), they must marry.

Can anyone say D-I-V-O-R-C-E?
 
Before reading this thread I thought my husband and I were quite unique in having got engaged after only four months, seems now like we were a little slow. Because we had only been dating for four months, and I was only 19 at the time, we decided to wait 11 months (the following January) before getting married so we could tell our families, “don’t worry, we’re not getting married till next year”…

That was nearly 19 years and 6 children ago…😃
 
My parents’ best friends knew each other 2 weeks before marriage and were married for over 50 years. It was exactly 2 years for us.

I would not think though, that a couple going together for 5 years or longer, has marriage in mind, at least one of them certainly does not, and the other one is being foolish for hanging around so long. They’re probably better off breaking up and finding someone right so they can move ahead with their life!!!

God Bless~
 
My husband asked me to marry him one week after our first date. We first met in late July when I took money from him 🙂 . We saw each other at a function, and the next night he introduced himself to me. We went for a meal together, and by early August we were engaged to be married. We were married on December 18 and have just celebrated our 28th wedding anniversary.

I think my father might have set a faster record with my mother. They met on the beach. He hid her clothing until she promised to go on a date. They were married for 55 years before my father passed away in November 2003.

MaggieOH
 
I started communicating with my wife on the internet for a couple weeks before I decided that I wanted to ask if she would like to meet somewhere. I thought I knew enough about her until I asked, and she said that there was a small problem. . any guesses? She was 6 months pregnant.

Well I really would have felt like **** for backing out for that reason, so I proceeded and figured that if anything, I could be a friend. First date was on December 27, 1998. Shortly after her daughter was born in March, I proposed successfully. We thought we would marry not too long after that, so we met with the parish priest and took the several hundred question test and started doing some minor planning, and things just settled down alot. Not relationship wise, just our lives got very caught up with work and stuff. Three years later, we went back to the rectory to meet with the priest who said that since it had been so long, we needed to take the test again. . . good grief!! The interesting thing was that when we sat down to go over the compatibilities, the priest compared our first results from three years ago to the current ones. The first ones put us at about 30% compatibility, and the current ones put us at about 90% compatibility. This just went to prove how valuable the lengthy relationship was to us before we got married. We were able to settle many differences, find out more about each other, which allowed us to understand how the other saw things so that we could understand, if not side with the other’s thinking.
We married on March 17, 2001 and have had a son since then, whom will turn 3 on February 1. My (step)daughter will be turning 6 on March 30. I just thought I had an interesting story. God Bless!
 
I met my husband overseas while I was student teaching in March 1994. I left in May 1994. AT&T loved me from May until August 1994 when I got to see him again for 1 1/2 weeks. Then back to AT&T until June 1995. Flew overseas in June 1995 for the summer break. Engaged in July 1995. Wedding planned for June 1996, but that was cancelled due to a year deployment to Bosnia. Flew over in November 1995 to get married. Flew back to the States the day after we were married. Found a job overseas in December 1995 and have been together ever since (except for when the Army decides) 🙂

Very blessed to have him in my life as he led me to the Catholic faith. Figured, if he believed so faithfully, I better at least look into it!
 
8 years after I started dating my husband we got married. Well, we were only 15 when we met ;). We were officially engaged for 1 year. Our first child was born almost a year to the day of our 1st anniversary. We have been married for 20 years and have four children.
 
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ProudArmyWife:
I met my husband overseas while I was student teaching in March 1994. I left in May 1994. AT&T loved me from May until August 1994 when I got to see him again for 1 1/2 weeks. Then back to AT&T until June 1995. Flew overseas in June 1995 for the summer break. Engaged in July 1995. Wedding planned for June 1996, but that was cancelled due to a year deployment to Bosnia. Flew over in November 1995 to get married. Flew back to the States the day after we were married. Found a job overseas in December 1995 and have been together ever since (except for when the Army decides) 🙂

Very blessed to have him in my life as he led me to the Catholic faith. Figured, if he believed so faithfully, I better at least look into it!
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When my sister and her husband got engaged way back in 1972 they planned an October wedding only to find out soon after that he would be deployed to the Sea of Japan to serve on the USS Enterprise. They decided to change their wedding date to make it a month earlier. They only had a month together before he left for a 14 month assignment. This was back in the day before the internet and cell phones. There only correspondence was by mail and they wrote to one another everyday so that almost everyday there was a letter in the mail to her. Often several came on one day. It was truly a trying time for them but they prevailed. They will be married 33 years this year and have had a very “happily ever after.”

God bless you. It is not easy being a military bride.
 
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