living together

[KSigkid]

I've lived with my girlfriend/fiancee since last April. We just got engaged this past May. So, we were living together for a year pre-engagement.

It's been great - for us it's worked well, we've learned more about how each of us lives, and we've had few problems if any. Luckily our living styles are compatible.

With us though, we'd gotten pretty serious pretty quickly, and it was an easy decision to make. If you're going to do it, I'd be careful...it is a make or break situation.

For me, it made it that much easier to propose.

[winneythepooh7]

I just asked my new boyfriend his view on this. He said that he thinks that the couple should live together before they get married to see if it is gonna work. We are still so completely new it's hard to tell where things are going but I still kinda feel that I would want the ring before I made that committment.

[Intense1920]

We have been together for four years and living together for the past two years. We just recently got engaged. For us it was a pretty simple decision. He moved to SC to be with me and it made little sense financially for us to live seperately when we were just going to be at one place all the time. We had discussed marriage before we moved in but had no idea when it would happen. I've learned a lot about him and neither one of us is afraid to do the other's laundry. LOL

[kwazi19]

I think it is a great idea to live with the one you love to find out if it is for real. I have been w/ my girlfriend for nearly a year know and we pretty much started living together right then and there. At 1st just because we didn't want to be away from one another, then afterwards my apt. got broken into and my car got stolen and my girlfriend was right there for me, I lived with her from Thanksgiving Break until my graduation in May and I can honestly say we are that much closer now because of it.

On a side note: The one thing that is extremely hard is this long distance thing, she is know in Cali doing an internship while I work for my fraternity national office. I haven't seen her in over a month, but I'll be there in a couple of weeks to see her and spend our 1 year to together