Getting married after dating for 6 months

I splurge on new sneakers sometimes because I want to. One of those moments was saying I love you, romantically, for the first time. After I said it, I felt like I was surrounded by warmth, like I was precisely where I was supposed to be. Out of respect for the preciousness of such a wholehearted decision, I am working on being less judgmental when I see someone following their heart — no matter how skeptical I might be about the rationality of their decision-making. The same goes for Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson: when I first heard that the couple had only dated for a few weeks before Davidson popped the question, my first instinct was to roll my eyes to infinity and beyond. That said, who ever called caution the spice of life?

I have been with my boyfriend 4 months and he is saving for a ring. We plan to get engaged in the next 2 months. Can you tell me your quick engagement stories? He interviewed my mother for an organic synthesis lab job when he was 31 and she was

Three relationship experts weigh in on how long you should be in a relationship before you pop the question. According to Shilpa Gandhi, as long as your core beliefs align a quick engagement doesn't equal a doomed relationship. Yet the certified matchmaker and director of Amare Exclusive , said that before deciding to get engaged, you should have talked at length about your future and taken age, career stage and financial stability into consideration.

Hey, different strokes for different folks. Needless to say, I disagree with that. But are they making the wise decision? Another reader — who was attempting to shoot down my assertion that you should ideally wait years before getting engaged — sent me a link to a super-informative article. In it, Professor Ted Huston studies couples for ten years.