How long have you been with your current "significant other"?
 

some of us are young have have been with their SOs for a year and it feels like a lifetime, and some are old and their three years still qualifies as a new relationship. Some have been maried forever, some are almost professionally single..... So regardless of how long it feels (although please feel free to post and explain) how long have you been together? ...and I'll leave the definition of "significant other" to you too. If they're significant to you, they count, even if it's your mother ;)

Mrs. dar and I have been together 23.5 years (22 years of marriage plus 1.5 years dating). Seems like just yesterday...

beest and I have been together for longer that we haven't been together -we met just before I turned 19 and this year I will turn 39. Wow, I still don't even feel 20, never mind feeling like we've been together that long!

Been with her for over 17 years, married for 15 and a half of them.

did Mrs Dar take your last name, Dar? and Glatt?

I took beest's last name because we wanted the same name, hated mine, didn't mind his and couldn;t find anything original we liked. In UK at the time, it was still prety much the norm for women to change their name, but frowned on in academic circles if you had already been published.

I certainly didn't expect her (and didn't ask her) to change her name to mine, but was pleased and flattered when she chose to. She did this thing where she kept her middle name, added her maiden name as a second middle name and then took my name as her last name. And then she insisted on using all four names for all her paperwork and on the job. It confused everybody. So she eventually sort of dropped her original middle name and now follows the traditional First name, Maiden Name, Last Name format.

four names is a sod for American paperwork. our kids all have 4 names for funsies (not one of them my maiden name) but there's no such standard format in the UK. and if there were, we'd probably give them the extra name for the hellof it. I'd gladly lose my given middle name, though -it's Jane.

We met Jan 9, 1990. I moved in with him March 23, 1990. We married on June 26, 1993. Damn, that was a long time ago. :D

I didn't like my maiden name. I don't care for my married name either (it's a German name and everyone gets it wrong) but I had to pick one. Oh well!

Same here.

Just out of curiosity, what day were you married?

October 23, 1993.
I wanted October 31, but the pastor refused.

I've only been married five years, been together 10. Second marriage for him, third for me.

oh look! the poll is full of old married people and is taking on that body shape! :lol: maybe all the newly-matcheds are still dating or having sex on a friday night :D

We wanted to get married on friday 13th, but the celebrant was alreasy booked so we went with the 20th.

Friday 13th?

Cool.

Please tell me you were planning on wearing hockey masks.

a month before you. Sept 25th

no, but I wore a black and purple dress...