I got engaged when I was 31. My friends were getting engaged left and right but I never felt any pressure...I just knew it would happen eventually!
When did you get engaged? Did you get antsy or feel pressure before it happened?
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I got engaged a few wks after I turned 26? I was only antsy because we'd been house hunting all summer and I couldn't possibly tell my traditional Korean parents that I'd be moving in with a "boyfriend" and needed that rock to justify our moving in together LOL
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We got engaged in Vegas! I semi knew it was coming but I talkedyself out of it so I could be surprised. It was awesome! I was 23...
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I was 28 when I got engaged and 29 when I got married. Once I met my now-husband, I never felt antsy. I knew we would get married eventually, and our relationship was such that we were open about talking about where it was heading from the beginning. We were both at a point in our lives when we met, that if we hadn't been right for one another and couldn't see a future in it, we would have stopped dating- neither of us was interested in wasting time or felt we had to continue to date someone "just to be with someone", which is a trap that a lot of my single girlfriends still seem to fall into.
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I was 20 and a month shy of graduating college. DH surprised me and popped the question on a random date night. We talked about it, but I didn't expect it until a year or so after graduation. I had no idea he was saving up money for a ring. We had been together for almost 3 years at that point.
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I got engaged when I was 22, but I knew that it was coming soon! At the time we were already dating for almost 4 years, and we knew we would get married! It was just waiting for DH to save up and buy a ring!
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Got engaged at age 27 and I knew it was coming so I was a little on edge wondering when exactly he would pop the question. I wasn't antsy based on age, though--a lot of my friends were still single back then, and many still are (I'm 29 now).
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I got engaged young.
I was just shy of 20. So no, I wasn't very antsy. I wanted to marry him, but I wasn't in a huge rush.
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I was 24 when I got engaged. It was at the top of the mountains during a ski trip during Christmas. I knew we'd get married one day so I wasn't in any hurry, but my now MIL let it slip that it might happen during Christmas. I pushed it to the back of my mind, and kind of forgot about it when Christmas came.
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I was 19! I didn't feel antsy at all. I was very surprised and happy when he proposed.
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I was 21 when we got engaged, married at 22. I wasn't antsy but we had been talking about it so I knew it was coming.
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I was 30 when we got engaged. I had split up with my previous boyfriend because he had said that he didn't believe in marriage - it doesn't get much more ansty than that!!! But when I met DH, I just knew that eveything would fall into place in it's own time and, when he asked me to marry him, he took me completely by surprise!
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We were both 26 and had been talking about it for a few months. Even did a bit of casual ring shopping... so YES, I was ANTSY as heck!!
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I was 27 when we got engaged and the engagement was completely out of the blue. I wasn't antsy at all because I didn't care whether we got married or not; I was happy with our relationship and had no feeling of urgency to change anything!
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I was 25 and was DEFINITELY feeling antsy. We had been together for five years, lived together for three, and it just seemed like... WTF was he waiting for??? Plus we wanted to buy a house and I REFUSED to even think about it when we weren't even engaged.
Thankfully Hubs proposed on our 5-year anniversary, which was totally sweet! Definitely worth the wait, though it was HARD to wait for it, haha.
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I was 24 and super antsy. We'd been together for over 5 years and I was just so ready to get this show on the road already!!
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We got engaged when I was 32. I knew it was coming (my Dad had given me my Grandmother's rings, my jerk-friend had told me that he had asked my Dad for permission....) We got married 9 months later. I was CRAZY anxious!!! We had been together 7 years!!
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I was 28 when we got engaged, and yes, I was really antsy about it. We'd been dating for 6 and a half years at that point, had talked about it, and had just moved in together. I didn't want to move in together until we were engaged, but outside circumstances just made it so it made more sense to do it a few months earlier. The last two months there were a lot of fights about it, to the point that he blurted out that he'd already bought a ring in the middle of one. I shut up about it after that, but yeah, very antsy. I wish I could have been more chill about it, since we had discussed and knew we would get married some day, but I'm just not that chill!
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I was 25 when we got engaged and married (we got married a month before my 26th birthday). I was a little antsy because two of my close friends were already engaged, but I didn't nag him about it or anything like that.
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I was 21 and we had been talking about it for a while. We weren't in a rush but I was a little antsy because everyone around us was all of a sudden getting engaged.
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so many young bees! i was antsy, awful antsy! i was engaged right when i turned 26, married at 27.
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I was 31 when we got engaged and I was antsy because we had been dating for 1yr9m and I was so ready.
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@Foodnerd81: I had a similar situation.
I got engaged at 26, married at 27, and I was crazy antsy before it happened. We had been dating for almost 7 years at that point, living together for 6 of those years. I had been a bridesmaid in 4 of my best friends weddings, all but one of whom had been with their guy for less time than me. Then they all started having babies and I was still waiting to get married. We fought about it a LOT (for years).
I wish we had gotten married sooner, but he needed it to be on his terms...
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I was 30. We had been together a year and a half but it was kind of a duh. But I was so antsy! We had been talking about it back in the summer of 2010 and he said he had a plan and not to worry and it would be within 6 months (I was already antsy, we had moved in together when we were together about a year). Big mistake, because every holiday, birthday, and long weekend between the summer and when he proposed, I was expecting it! But he finally proposed on Christmas Eve. It would have been a huge surprise but my dad totally ruined it because DH called him to go over there and ask his blessing and left him a message, and my dad called ME because he was worried something was wrong! UH DUH thanks dad. I didn't let on until after DH asked, though
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I defined antsy in the days leading up to our engagement. I had just finished graduate school and was figuring out where I was going to live. He had moved home to Canada and I couldn't unless we were serious and he couldn't move to the states unless we had a more permanent situation. Waiting for him to ask me to marry him had the added pressure of waiting for my life to get back on track. Apartment, Job, Relationship....everything was on hold until we got engaged. I went totally nuts and it is definitely a regret that I wasn't more laid back and calm about the process.
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I got engaged at 32 after being together for 7 months, lol. Before we got together we were really good friends for 3 years and were actually living together for a few months before hand too. I knew it was coming, we'd talked about marriage pretty much from the beginning and he had my grandmother's ring. It was actually much sooner than I expected.
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@alayaya: My friend from high school got married last week after dating for 18 years!
They are going straight to TTC mode!
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29. Still not engaged. Still antsy.
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Officially, when I was 26, though we knew would would be getting married long beforehand (immigration stuff).
I was actually quite surprised and thought it was very sweet, I wasn't expecting a real proposal or ring or anything!
I nearly ruined the moment by whining about how I wanted to go back to our hotel (we were at a beach) because I had to pee. Finally DH just looked at me and was like "Dammit, can you just give me 5 minutes?!"
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We were only dating 11 months. I told myself I wasnt allowed to get antsy until after our year anniversary.
I was just shy of 20. So no, I wasn't very antsy. I wanted to marry him, but I wasn't in a huge rush.
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