https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:05:03 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-live-in-sin-with-your-so/page/4#post-1783904 Sun, 27 Jul 2014 18:20:43 +0000 teamjse 1783904@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, we lived together since college. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-live-in-sin-with-your-so/page/4#post-1783797 Sun, 27 Jul 2014 16:28:21 +0000 illumina 1783797@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We lived together for 5 years before getting married. I don't think you really get to know someone until you've lived with them, so it was a must for me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-live-in-sin-with-your-so/page/4#post-1783669 Sun, 27 Jul 2014 13:45:20 +0000 jedeve 1783669@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lovehoneybee: story? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-live-in-sin-with-your-so/page/3#post-1783667 Sun, 27 Jul 2014 13:40:17 +0000 jedeve 1783667@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, but in a very different way than most!</p> <p>We lived in the same community when we did a volunteer/peace drops type program after college. So we lived together before we were even dating. :grin: </p> <p>I did a second year with the program, so I moved to a different community where he was going to law school and he lived alone. Although we did spend the night with each other. </p> <p>I don't think I would've lived together by ourselves though. I just wanted to be single when I was single and married when I was married. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-live-in-sin-with-your-so/page/3#post-1783637 Sun, 27 Jul 2014 12:55:23 +0000 MrsSCB 1783637@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, we lived together for three years before we got married. One of my MOST-hated phrases is "why buy the cow if you can get the milk for free?" First of all, who is supposed to be the cow in this scenario? lol But also, on a more serious note, if someone wants to get married they will. If they don't want to get married they won't. I don't think living arrangements change that. And the phrase I prefer is, "I don't want to buy a car before test-driving it." ;-) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-live-in-sin-with-your-so/page/3#post-1783618 Sun, 27 Jul 2014 12:40:49 +0000 fairy 1783618@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@travelgirl1: haha! Your mom had great advice :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-live-in-sin-with-your-so/page/3#post-1783587 Sun, 27 Jul 2014 12:08:21 +0000 MadamBabyFever 1783587@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH moved in with me about a month after we started dating, and we haven't looked back since. We got married 4 and a half years later although living in sin really had nothing to do with it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-live-in-sin-with-your-so/page/3#post-1783286 Sat, 26 Jul 2014 21:15:55 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 1783286@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Running Elley: that's so, so awesome. :heart: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-live-in-sin-with-your-so/page/3#post-1783237 Sat, 26 Jul 2014 20:12:43 +0000 ShootingStar 1783237@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yup, we lived together before we were even a couple. We were friends and he started staying over pretty much every night. Then we hooked up, then we decided to be together, 7 months later we were engaged. 1.5 years later we got married.<br /> The 4 year anniversary of our first date was last week :). </p> <p>I would tell to DS live with someone first too. I wouldn't recommend buying a place with someone without being in a big commitment, but hey it'll be his life, his decisions. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-live-in-sin-with-your-so/page/3#post-1783223 Sat, 26 Jul 2014 19:45:14 +0000 Mrs. Rabbit 1783223@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I lived with him for two months before our wedding. I was living in NM and he was in Georgia. I moved alllll my stuff to GA in October and then flew home for Christmas and stayed in NM taking care of last-minute wedding details before the wedding (in Feb). It made more sense to move before the wedding, that way after our honeymoon we could just start our lives together.</p> <p>heh..btw, those two months were RIDICULOUSLY hard. We definitely asked ourselves what the heck we were doing several times. Luckily we worked things out :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-live-in-sin-with-your-so/page/3#post-1783220 Sat, 26 Jul 2014 19:30:22 +0000 lovehoneybee 1783220@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Well, we met the night he moved into my house, so yeah... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-live-in-sin-with-your-so/page/3#post-1783169 Sat, 26 Jul 2014 18:15:52 +0000 LindsayLou 1783169@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, we lived together long before we got married. Moved in together after dating for 8 months, bought our house after dating a year and a half, got engaged after just shy of 3 years of dating, got married after being together 3 and a half years and living together for nearly 3. I always knew I wanted to live with a future spouse before marriage, and am strongly advising my younger brothers to do the same. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-live-in-sin-with-your-so/page/3#post-1783138 Sat, 26 Jul 2014 17:36:14 +0000 pui 1783138@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes. I lived with my DH before we were married. Never lived with anyone else (besides my family) before that. I moved in with DH when he bought our house, when we had been dating for around 3 years. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-live-in-sin-with-your-so/page/3#post-1783119 Sat, 26 Jul 2014 16:50:16 +0000 Crystal 1783119@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Running Elley: I'm impressed! I don't know how you didn't spontaneously combust, lol. </p> <p>We moved in together after about 3 years of dating, had a mortgage by year 4, engaged in year 7, married in year 8. Getting ready to celebrate being married for 2 years and being together for 10 years. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-live-in-sin-with-your-so/page/3#post-1783058 Sat, 26 Jul 2014 14:54:25 +0000 NCSUchick27 1783058@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, we wanted to wait until we were at least engaged to live together, but when we got engaged we were in a long distance relationship. DH had moved 4 hours away for a job, and I stayed where I was because I wasn't ready to quit my job yet. It was also easier for me to plan our wedding from where I was.</p> <p>I don't think you have to live together before getting married. DH and I dated for 6 years before we got married so we pretty much knew everything about each other, and there were no surprises when we finally moved in together. We actually didn't live together until 2 months after the wedding. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-live-in-sin-with-your-so/page/3#post-1783049 Sat, 26 Jul 2014 14:40:59 +0000 Dandelion 1783049@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>yep. I didn't live with my ex before we were married, but I did live with DH 6 months before we got married. But, at the time we moved in together, I didn't know we would suddenly decide to get married. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-live-in-sin-with-your-so/page/3#post-1783040 Sat, 26 Jul 2014 14:38:19 +0000 night cheese 1783040@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yup. We lived together for five years before we got married. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-live-in-sin-with-your-so/page/3#post-1783038 Sat, 26 Jul 2014 14:34:32 +0000 magnolia 1783038@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep an we still are! Almost ten years later. We talk about marriage every two years or so.... one of my parents has been married and divorced 3 times. I realize this is controversial but it's not important to us. Our commitment to each other supercede s the recognition of the government. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-live-in-sin-with-your-so/page/3#post-1783030 Sat, 26 Jul 2014 14:23:08 +0000 Sunderling 1783030@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We moved in together 10 months before getting married, but didn't have sex until after the wedding. So many of our friends told us it was a bad idea and encouraged me to move out and get my own place until the wedding (which I resented because it was my place he had moved into) but it was awesome for us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-live-in-sin-with-your-so/page/3#post-1782648 Sat, 26 Jul 2014 00:31:06 +0000 Mrs.Pinecone316 1782648@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We waited until we were married to move in together. We picked out an apartment a month before the wedding and DH moved in and the day before we left out of town for the wedding I chucked all my stuff in there. </p> <p>For us, it was the right thing. We really wanted marriage to feel like a completely new chapter in life for us so moving it after the wedding was so fun! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-live-in-sin-with-your-so/page/3#post-1782645 Sat, 26 Jul 2014 00:24:41 +0000 MrsBrewer 1782645@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope! I moved into his apartment once we got back from our honeymoon! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-live-in-sin-with-your-so/page/3#post-1782625 Fri, 25 Jul 2014 23:38:16 +0000 Running Elley 1782625@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rainbow Sprinkles: We did! DH has a lot of self control and he's always wanted to wait for marriage (I wasn't a virgin but I totally respected his wishes to wait!) so we did. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-live-in-sin-with-your-so/page/3#post-1782585 Fri, 25 Jul 2014 22:12:03 +0000 Katrocap 1782585@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@travelgirl1: I like your mom's advice. :happy: </p> <p>You bet DH and I lived together before we were married. We were in San Francisco, there's no way we could afford to live separately. But we were committed to each other long before marriage and our wedding was a simple trip to the courthouse. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-live-in-sin-with-your-so/page/3#post-1782556 Fri, 25 Jul 2014 21:21:15 +0000 Espion 1782556@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lilyofthewest: My sibling has been with their sweetie for, going on, 9 years. 2 kids and 2 houses later, they have no plans. And that is perfectly okay. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-live-in-sin-with-your-so/page/3#post-1782555 Fri, 25 Jul 2014 21:19:54 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 1782555@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Running Elley: wow....really? That must've been hard! Did you guys sleep in the same bed?</p> <p>We moved in together six months after we got engaged, six months before our wedding. </p> <p>I'm glad we did. I was finishing My last semester of college and I was on rocky terms with my parents. It didn't make sense for me pinch pennies to play for my own place when he already owned a home. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-live-in-sin-with-your-so/page/3#post-1782549 Fri, 25 Jul 2014 21:15:31 +0000 MaryM 1782549@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope. And when his landlord unexpectedly asked him to move out a few months early, we moved back our wedding date so we wouldn't live together before marriage. And that was the best decision ever! Super small wedding, but we still had a huge reception on the original date. I got to wear the dress twice and we celebrate two times a year.</p> <p>We dated for 7 years and hadn't lived together, and we completed catholic pre-Cana already, so it seemed weird to us (even agnostic DH) to go ahead and move in together </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-live-in-sin-with-your-so/page/3#post-1782407 Fri, 25 Jul 2014 19:09:54 +0000 lilyofthewest 1782407@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yup, still doing it, and no particular plans for marriage in the foreseeable future either. </p> <p>This is the fourth partner I've lived with<br /> - a HS boyfriend who I ended up living with as much because I had no where else to live as because I wanted to live with him. His parents were really amazing to me and I will always be grateful.<br /> - An ex who I very much still love and miss. It just wasn't in the cards for us.<br /> - My ex wife<br /> - My current sweetie of 4 years </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-live-in-sin-with-your-so/page/3#post-1782397 Fri, 25 Jul 2014 18:55:32 +0000 Mrs. Oatmeal 1782397@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-live-in-sin-with-your-so/page/3#post-1782283 Fri, 25 Jul 2014 16:48:48 +0000 travelgirl1 1782283@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Gosh yes, for about four years. I would absolutely recommend DD do the same too. There's nothing like learning what each other's habits are to make you realize whether you love them AND can live with them. My mum actually told me that before I got married to live with and sleep with him. In her words: "make sure you know what they're in to, it's too late if they get the whips and chains out on the wedding night" ha ha. Wise words, mother. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-live-in-sin-with-your-so/page/3#post-1782270 Fri, 25 Jul 2014 16:41:34 +0000 mrs. 64 1782270@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We were quite the opposite- we were long distance until we had been married for 6 months. </p>