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Provided that the two people involved are of age and looking for a marriage partner. How long do you think is appropriate for people to date before approaching marriage so that they know each other well enough to make an informed choice?
i was thinkin a year. I really wanna settle down one day, and i am getting sick of single life. of course, I wouldn't marry hastely, but if it feels right, then a year.
I would say anywhere between a year or two!
Then your going to see if that person is whom you truly want to spend the rest of your life with.
IMO, short engagements are hasty and you can not really see if that individual has the same or pretty close to the same outlook of life and desires as you do.
I've seen too many people rush into a marriage and after a time realize the other person is not what they thought and find a lot of indifferences and goals of life are totally opposite... and has caused a lot of heart ache.
Provided that the two people involved are of age and looking for a marriage partner. How long do you think is appropriate for people to date before approaching marriage so that they know each other well enough to make an informed choice?
I'm not exactly what you mean by "approaching marriage", but I'll answer anyway.
I think it's different for everyone and there is no right answer. My sister and boyfriend were together 11 years before marrying. My brother and his girlfriend got married shortly after meeting each other. Both had lovely divorces.
I met my girlfriend in real life about a year ago, and will be proposing soonly. The plan is to be engaged for about a year and a half then get married. I think that way is right for us. We talked about marriage (does that count as "approaching" perhaps two weeks after we met.
I want us to know each other and live together a while longer before making anything officially official and legal, but I also want to show her and announce to the world that this is the woman I want to spend my life with. It's a way of bring the relationship to another level, a more intimate commitment, without yet rushing into the whole wedding/marriage. I see it as an intermediate step between just dating and being married.
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will you be engaged first?
