How long was it before you got engaged to your SO? And did your parents approve?

[LadyDaemon]

We got engaged 2 days before my birthday at the 6 1/2 month mark. However,we decided due to it being earlyish on that we would have a nice long engagement so by the time we actually get married we'll have been together for a little over 2 years.

[frompanthertomustang]

When and if we get engaged (which probably won't be until we've graduated from our respective universities) I know my parents will be thrilled My dad is constantly telling me that I'd better marry my boyfriend, and I know my mom adores him. Their support is extremely important to us. I know his parents will be very happy too, just as long as we don't plan on getting married too young in their eyes, which we don't! I definitely day dream about it from time to time, but seeing as we're only twenty, we've got a little ways to go. If we get engaged the summer after we graduate, we will have been together for four years, but been friends for twelve, and we'll probably get married at 24 or 25. Knowing my boyfriend, though, he'll probably wait a year or two after we graduate. By then, we will have hopefully closed the distance!

[floridaellen]

My SO proposed 5 days after our 3 year anniversary. My parents were/are very happy. They treat him like a son-in-law already and have for a while. His mom is excited too. His dad and stepmom are pretending to be but they keep referring to it as our "first wedding". Ugh.

At the time of our wedding we will have been together for 4 years and two months.

[abc123]

He proposed the day before our three year anniversary. (however, we celebrate the day we first met as our anniversary, we actually only started dating about 8 months later, due to a deployment.) anyways, at this point I had already moved across the country, transferred schools, etc., so my parents were fine with it sometimes I still wonder how I feel about it, only because I had always sworn to myself I wouldn't even start thinking about marriage until at least 27/28 or 30. And now here I am! Haha

ETA to answer your question more precisely, we had been exclusively dating about 2.5 years and living together for 5 months. My parents approved.

[Dwessie]

We aren't yet, and I don't know how hers will feel, but we only kinda care (WHOOPS!)
Her dad is a friendly guy and would probably be cool with it. Her mom is weird and I have no idea.
As for my parents, they are happy that someday it's gonna happen! Dad's saving up for it to help us out, and both parents have said they want it to happen.

[differentcountries]

With my husband we got engaged after 3,5 years of dating - he had been asking me (constantly!) to marry him for the majority of our relationship, really. We told noone we got engaged. I knew my dad would not approve since my husband was my girlfriend at the time. His parents were thrilled when we invited them to the wedding, though, and my mum liked it as well. We married after dating for 5 years and having lived together for 3 years. After the sexchange my dad was over the moon with my husband, he loves saying about me that I have a husband (which should upset me since he treated my ex wife not very nice, but then again well why be upset about the part of my life he actually supports?).

My SO also has hang for repeatedly obsessing over marriage - although he doesn't phraze it quite like will you marry me, since he knows that is not possible to get legally married to me. But we had been together a very short time before he said he fantasized about growing old with me. I said I would bring him the closest thing to marriage I could think of. We had that conversation before my first visit, which was very early indeed! Throughout our relationship he has brought up several times that he ponders about marriage with me, he thinks about it a lot, as Turks tend to do. And he loves especcially when other people start saying when will you marry etc, like they did when we attended his friend's wedding. We have the uppertunity to live together in Turkey without getting married and we tried that for one week a month for 7 months (3 weeks in July), we can in Norway too. I have met his family, he has yet to meet mine. I would like at some point to have a kind of celebration of our relationship, but I think we both prefer that to happen after we know for sure which route we will take to close the distance.

[Sanja]

6 months into a relationship and on my second visit to him, he proposed. It's a year later and we are living together. Plans of wedding are postponed due to unexpected pregnancy. We are very happy!

[TaraMarie]

He proposed this past September, which was two and a half years after we met. Planning to get married sept 2015. I don't know if my parents approve, nor do I care. I know my dad and stepmother like him, but they've only met once and will meet a second time this weekend. My mom met him on Christmas, and since she is in love with my ex husband I am sure she doesn't care for my SO. MORE IMPORTANTLY, MY CHILDREN ADORE him, and that is all I care about. His mom LOVES me and is super supportive!

[WorshipLove]

6 months into a relationship and on my second visit to him, he proposed. It's a year later and we are living together. Plans of wedding are postponed due to unexpected pregnancy. We are very happy!

congratulations on your pregnancy !!

[snow]

We got engaged about a year into the relationship and are getting married 2 and a half years into the relationship

[R&R]

This is our second time dating. We had discussed marriage the first time within a few months of dating and he bought my engagement ring. We broke up for about a year and a half and when we got back together, we started discussing marriage again. He was so positive that we would reconnect, he never got rid of the ring. So though we are not officially engaged yet, we are planning to get married (possibly 11/9/15). By the time it's "official", our total time together will be just under 2 years.

My parents love him and look forward to him as a son-in-law. Both of his parents have passed away but his kids are happy for him.

[djgirl]

I am not married, though I did wanted to share. I'll tell you my parents did NOT support at all. I'm asian and with an asian parents they expect you to marry someone rich or looks asian (in their eyes). I'm pretty young my birthday is next month. We are still struggling at this point. We've been together for 2.5 years few months it's our official anniversary. We met 3 times he came here and on the third time he brought his mom. The first time he flew to me, he told me he really didn't like flying but that was the first step of sacrifice. My mother met him, she said he was ok, but I saw in her face that she was kind of disappointed.. I didn't care. I don't really want to rant about it. I wish I could speak to someone about this, someone could inbox/PM i could use some help. Seeing these people get married, I really wish I was too..

Anyways, I saw him on the summer of last year (winter in brazil) since it's already January. His family loved me, they came in with open arms and to see my parents not supporting me is breaking me. They still dont support. In the US, it's difficult to get a job here. I was thinking about marrying him in Brazil and come back here.. Thing is.. I dont know how my parents or my family will think.. ~ DJ

[robearto]

Me and SO will have been together 3 years LD but I feel thats enough time for me to know that she is the person I want to share my life with. In terms of parents, my Mum knows that I will be asking as I needed her help planning some things and the rest of my family have been super supportive about it however So's family have been a little resistant to anything related to us moving forward in our relationship. As we are quite young they feel that we are moving a bit too fast but I firstly its about how you feel in your relationship and your maturity level. (If i'm honest this bit annoyed me because although they were older when they got engaged they had been together for less time than me and SO) I feel that keeping an LDR going for 3 years (even though the distance isn't thousands of miles) at our age has made us more mature and appreciative of each other and what we want in our relationship.

[MissingMyDutchLove]

Me and SO will have been together 3 years LD but I feel thats enough time for me to know that she is the person I want to share my life with. In terms of parents, my Mum knows that I will be asking as I needed her help planning some things and the rest of my family have been super supportive about it however So's family have been a little resistant to anything related to us moving forward in our relationship. As we are quite young they feel that we are moving a bit too fast but I firstly its about how you feel in your relationship and your maturity level. (If i'm honest this bit annoyed me because although they were older when they got engaged they had been together for less time than me and SO) I feel that keeping an LDR going for 3 years (even though the distance isn't thousands of miles) at our age has made us more mature and appreciative of each other and what we want in our relationship.

I completely agree with you as far as LD changing relationships! We have to make though decisions earlier than most. Many of us wouldn't be in our relationship unless we saw a future with our SO fairly early on, which is incredibly different than a lot of people. I never would consider marrying my SO at 20 if we didn't have the relationship we do, but sometimes you do whatever you need to do to be with the one that you love. They say when you know, you know!

[CaliforniasBride]

We got engaged a day before our anniversary, and both sets of parents were overjoyed! ♥