So...when did you start hearing wedding bells? :)

[CanadianGirl]

How long until you began to picture yourselves growing old together? I'm curious to hear about everyone's experiences.

For myself, it took about 6 months Marriage is still quite far into the hazy, hazy future though!

[nic&matt]

I took me about 6 months and obviously I'm still young. I'm sticking it out but not making up my mind on anything right now. The thought does still scare me a little!

[Zephii]

Picturing us growing old together was something I tried hard not to do. But, a week after we met in person we agreed that we were going to "try and make this work" and from then onwards I've thought long into the future. I'm a planner. And besides that, once I commit to something I really stick to it.
The wedding bells came a lot later though. We were together a year and a half officially before I started to think I might like to marry him, and even now I've agreed, I'm still thinking hard about it.

[blankita719]

I had a very odd feeling of wanting to spend the rest of my life with him the very first time we ever hung out. I was out with him and his son, who was very young at the time and he ran into someone he knew who had never met his ex. The friend asked if his son and I were my SO's family and we both got kind of flustered and said no, we were just friends (long, very long story - if you don't know it, feel free to bore yourself with the details in my LDR story post )
But after we both said it, I wanted it to be true. I wanted it more than anything I'd ever wanted in my entire life. I could have and would have spent my life with him starting that very day. Unfortunately, it took us 13 years to get with the program, but I still feel it every day. I want nothing more that to merge our families, and for us to grow old together

[CanadianGirl]

Nice hearing from all of you!

I totally agree. It's a terrifying thought (still is!). I probably had an inkling as early as our first meeting, but it took 6 months to admit it to myself. I think the distance kind of forced the thinking so early. It's stressful thinking of a long distance relationship that's going no where.

[AllieBaba]

It didn't take me too long to fall over heels for my SO, but I have to say that after meeting each other in person, it suddenly hit me, everything became so clear to me. I remember thinking to myself.. this is the guy that I want to spend the rest of my life with

[Sora1101]

I'd say about 9-10 months into our relationship one day outta the blue I realized I didn't want to spend my life with anyone but him

[October987]

Before we even started dating. We were best friends for 7 years before we started dating... we didn't start dating sooner because we didn't know we both shared the same feelings for each other until I just flat out told him one night and he replied with telling me he had felt the same way for all of those years. He'd always tell me he wanted to marry me and he loved me, but I thought he was just yanking my chain.. he was completely serious.

[mllebamako]

I am also a big planner, so I started picturing our future together VERY early on. Like probably after a month together. He told me after the first week, that he knew. I was like, "You're kidding". He always replied, "Just wait and see...you'll get there". And he was right!

[Tanja]

I don't remember the exact timeline but I'm pretty sure it was quite early on... Now that we live together marriage is all I think about

[michy]

It was very early on- even during our first meeting, it was evident that all the pieces of a wonderful future life were present, and we both knew it:

I had only known him for a few weeks at that point, so in a lot of ways we were strangers still, but we felt so comfortable and natural it was hard to believe we'd not been together for years. And we had a bit of a disaster getting lost together on a mountain when the cloud came down, faced freezing cold and wet weather as we endured the night in each other's arms to keep warm, huddled in a bog, waiting for the sun... but we both made the best of it, and laughed about it- even at the time.

So the seeds were planted then, and I thought- 'may we always handle whatever life throws at us with this much grace and humor!'

From then on, all our interactions and meetings only served to reinforce those initial thoughts, and proved to us that we were the right ones for each other. It was another 6 months before we officially decided to marry, then casually planned the wedding over the following 7 months.

[hillke]

While Beau and I were CD it was sort of just a thought in the back of my mind... I was more focused on graduating, and if we were still together when we graduated, yeah, we'd probably get married. We did have a night very early in our relationship where I had broken down and gotten upset about some personal stuff and he told me that he was "in it for the long haul" and that was when I started to feel like we were a sure thing.

When we became an LDR it became more important to me. I wouldn't stay in this LDR if I thought we didn't have a future. I'm sort of more anxious to get that commitment locked down so that I know for sure where we're going. I know where I want our relationship to go, and I want to know that he's committed to the same path.

[LostInLove]

I like thinking of our future together. The kind of house we would have, raising our kids to be good little science geeks like us, growing old together. That said, it's still too early in the relationship to know if that's where we're headed or not. We have some huge obstacles to overcome, and we need to get to know each other better as well. But yeah, right now I think we'd make an awesome married couple.

[Luisina]

I like thinking of our future.. apartment, kids, pets etc.. but I sure ain't hearing no wedding bells yet!!

[lucybelle]

My SO has already told me he wants to marry me. And as much as I hate to admit it, the idea doesn't scare me too much anymore. But we both know that we don't need to be even engaged for at least another year or so. I wouldn't mind being married to him. But kids is WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY off