Amount of Time before He proposed?

[JennRN]

I met my husband when I was 19 and he was 21. He didn't propose to me until I was 24-yes, almost 41/2 years after we started dating. I was getting impatient towards the end ( about to graduate school, he lived in another state, where do I get a job/take boards?), but am glad we waited. When I think about what a dumbass I was at 19, I think there's a great chance we wouldn't have stayed married. We both grew up alot in that time.