*schmoodle*

Jennywren82

I swear to God I did not copy or even read your post to the Stolen question until after I posted!

Whoa, freaky?coincidence! I had been online buddies with DH since April of '01, and met the first time in January of '02.

We got married January of '07, when did you guys get married??

schmoodle

LOL, when I read yours I was going to reply and say how similar our stories were! We got married in May '04. He proposed after we'd only been together for 4 months (long distance the whole time so we'd probably only actually seen each other 6 or 7 times at that point, but for a whole weekend each time). Like you, I just knew he was it as soon as I met him (even before, actually, but didn't know if we'd ever meet in person).

Jennywren82

My DH is a non-commiter. It took FOREVER for him to ask.... he has always and still is like that.

I'll bet living together was a lot to get used to. For us, surprisingly it wasn't a hard switch.?

schmoodle

Did you live together a long time before getting engaged? Did one of you move to be near the other?

Actually, living together wasn't a bad transition for us either - pretty surprising since he was my first relationship ever, much less live-in. I think he proposed so quickly because he is 9.5 years older than me and so was pretty ready to settle down when we met. We were already engaged for half a year by the time we moved in together though (we didn't live together until we both finished our first year of law school and then applied to transfer to each other's schools - he ended up moving to be in Chicago with me).

Jennywren82

We did the LDR thing for 5 years. YUK!

I told him a year and a half before we got married that I wasn't doing it anymore. I couldn't stand the drive and the distance and I wasn't leaving my career and family for a "maybe."?

So he finally proposed, and we set the date and got married. The longest we had been together was a week.

Once we got married, I moved here to NJ and we lived in an apt for the first year.

Thats so weird that you say how easy it was to live together. I thought I was spoiled, but maybe its not so bad for other people after all.

And DH is only 3 years older than me, so he was in no rush to settle down, but he tells me all the time that he wouldn't change it if he could.

I'm so glad for you that everything went smoothly. There's not many people I know who have done it our way. I don't broadcast it because I get a lot of looks.

schmoodle

It sounds like he was worth the wait - although I can't imagine how you did LDR that long. We only did it for 9 months or so and it was AWFUL! I cried every time we had to leave each other.

I know what you mean about the looks - my first year of law school when we were first together and I was just meeting my classmates and getting to know them, I totally lied and said we met when I was on a trip to NYC (where he lived) and he was a friend of a friend, because I didn't want to say my serious boyfriend was a guy I'd met in person all of 2 times and met on a law school discussion board! I'm more open now though. So glad it all worked out for you guys too!