Hehe. Were you afraid if you moved in together before marriage that you wouldn't ever get married?
Hehe. Were you afraid if you moved in together before marriage that you wouldn't ever get married?
coconut / 8234 posts
Nope! My dad told me this but I said, "You wouldn't buy a car without taking it for a test drive first."
coconut / 8279 posts
Nah, we lived together for over a decade before getting married. Marriage wasn't important to me until I wanted to have a family, DH was on the same page. I wasn't in any rush.
coconut / 8854 posts
Nope wasn't worried at all. We moved in together after we were married. I lived with my parents while dating/engagement. DH had an apartment.
grapefruit / 4136 posts
I wasn't worried but I did get frustrated after 5 years my grandpa always said he didn't want me to be a 'kept woman' LOL
cantaloupe / 6059 posts
I wasn't worried about it but I'm traditional enough that we didn't live together or (maybe tmi?) engage in...*ahem*...any sexual activity before marriage and it all worked out wonderfully.
pomelo / 5469 posts
No, but when we'd been living together 3yrs and he hadn't proposed yet I wondered whether it would happen. I definitely didn't want to commit with buying a house until we were married though incase he never wanted to get married.
honeydew / 7230 posts
Nope, we were engaged by the time we moved in together. (Also, I thought at first glance that you meant you were worried he wouldn't want to get married if you had sex beforehand, and I wasn't worried about that either!)
wonderful cherry / 21504 posts
Sort of? We dated a long time before moving in together. The plan had always been to move in after we were engaged (what I wanted, DH preferred move in before), but circumstances changed and it made a whole lot more sense to move in before. Then I got frustrated by how long he took to propose after that. I guess I knew it was coming I just thought he took to long. It's still a slightly sore spot!
watermelon / 14467 posts
1) My mother would have disowned me if we had lived together before being married.
2) My university kind of made it easy to live apart since my scholarships were contingent on me residing on campus and there was no married housing.
bananas / 9628 posts
Nope. I would never marry someone I hadn't lived with. I did wait until he had brought up that it was his intentions for us to get married, but we were engaged.
pomelo / 5220 posts
No, we were on the same page about the future. We lived together less than a year before getting engaged.
watermelon / 14206 posts
Nope. We both knew it was part of the plan when we moved in together.
honeydew / 7303 posts
@mediagirl: nope! I tried to get dh to move in with me first but he wouldn't!
nectarine / 2274 posts
Nope, we lived together since college. He was the one that really pushed for marriage too.
GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts
No, I orginially said I would not live with him until we were engaged, but we ended up finding a great house and decided it was too good to pass up. But I let him know I wanted engagement to follow soon, and it did 2 months later!
coconut / 8861 posts
Yep. He lived with someone previously and didn't commit. I was worried that the same thing could happen to me. When we moved into together, we had friends who dated less time than us getting married. It was kind of tough on me.
wonderful olive / 19353 posts
Nope! Before we even started dating, he was the kind of guy I wanted to marry.
pear / 1693 posts
Wasn't something I ever considered. I don't know if I would want to marry someone without living with them first though.
wonderful pea / 17279 posts
No, but that was because I never considered cohabitation an option.
GOLD / pineapple / 12662 posts
No, because (1) he knew I wanted to be married and that I would not wait forever, and (2) I got skills, yo!
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
We did not believe in living together before marriage so that wasn't a concern!
pomegranate / 3113 posts
No, but he was more eager to take the plunge than I was, so it ended up not being an issue. I still had my own apartment when he proposed (though I was spending most of my time at his place, I just hadn't officially moved in) so I didn't renew the lease when it was up a few months later. But I kept my own place for that long because I wanted to maintain a "me space", not because I was afraid we wouldn't get married if I didn't. I only gave it up because it was silly, financially, to keep renting what essentially became a really nice storage unit.
pomegranate / 3565 posts
No, but I wasn't moving in until we were engaged. I owned my own home - I wasn't giving that up for a boyfriend, only a husband.
hostess / papaya / 10219 posts
No but I made sure of his intentions before we moved in together. The reason being that I lived with someone A long time ago and it didn't work out. It was much messier to break up once you were living together. I was never worried that living together would make him not want to marry me though. If anything it was the opposite.
pomelo / 5509 posts
No, I wasn't, but he actually insisted we not move in together until we were engaged! He's more old-fashioned than I am.
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