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SJSinNYC
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Poshut, I disagree with the two week deadline. There should be NO deadlines. People should take things as fast or as slow as they need to.

My stepsister dated her husband for 8 days, had an intense dating experience and got married 3 months later. She is happily married for 14 years now with 5 kids. I once asked her if she regretted dating so short and she said that looking back, she would have liked to date for longer, but is so happy in her life that she is happy things worked out as they did.

My sister was dating someone for about 2 months. He was ready to committ, but she told him she needed more time. His RY told him if she isn’t ready by now, she will never be and told him to break up with her. He dated some other people, found himself missing my sister more and more, and when she called him back two months later to see if he wanted to try again, he was ecstatic. He didn’t pressure her at all that time, and after another 2 months of dating, they got engaged. Some people just need to process.

I met my husband at 19 while in college. We started dating 9 months after we met. We dated for 1.5 years before getting engaged and got married 9 months later. To me, that was kind of quick. I don’t like to make any big decisions quickly. I can’t even committ to a couch for my living room (so its empty). I knew I loved my husband while we were dating, but I also know how serious marriage is and I wanted to make sure that everything could work out. We talked about a lot of things over the course of our relationship and there is no way I would have felt comfortable discussing certain things in the first FEW WEEKS of dating. Add to the fact that we were both still in college, we had to wait no matter what. Neither of us come from rich families who can support us.

Point being, everyone has to take things at their own pace and do what is right for them.