Average length dating before getting engaged

06-Aug-2017 19:50

To figure out just how long it takes for a lady in love to go from 'girlfriend' to 'fiance', Weddington Way and Pricenomics surveyed 1,000 newly-engaged women in the US, grilling them for details about their love lives and husbands-to-be.

They also broke their results down by region, discovering — perhaps unsurprisingly — that women in the South are in more of a hurry to say 'I do', while those in the Northeast are considerably more cautious.

The expression "act in haste repent at leisure" is not always accurate.

Whether you date for a few months, a few years or a few decades it is hard to know what is best.

Even well into your thirties—when people are more self-aware than they were in their twenties and know what they want—and into your forties—when having kids starts to feel a bit more urgent—you can still afford to wait six months.

I asked my boyfriend to give me the guy's perspective on this, and he said he thinks six months should be the standard minimum too.

Divorces are easier to obtain now than they ever were, but there can still be a price to be paid for getting things wrong.

There will always be people who have heard of a couple who married after a few months and it worked out perfectly while another couple dated for years before getting engaged or married and they did not last.

But what if you are childhood friends who begin to date when you are older?

So..have a pet together, and you're wondering if that makes you any more ready to take the next step. 50% of people who got engaged had pets, and 50% didn't. Even more interesting are the statistics that break down by region. And because of this, you may have multiple groups of friends on completely different timelines.