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My Fiance Didn't Mention He's Engaged when Talking to His Ex

This post was submitted anonymously. My fiance's ex contacted him recently out of the blue, after nearly 2 years of having no contact after their breakup. Their relationship was about five to six months long and even th…
Is It Too Young/Early to Get Engaged?

I'm 20 and he's 21. We have been dating for 3 years this coming May. We have been talking a lot about our future lately, and we know we want to get married. Is it too young/early to get engaged sometime at the end of th…
A Broken Engagement After 4 Years! Why Keep a Failing Relationship?

A little less than four years ago when my husband and I first got together, one of his good friends had just gotten engaged to his long-time love. He did this on the eve of New Years, so as we all gathered around the d…
Did I Ruin Your Engagement or Did You Ruin My Trip?

Recently, I planned a trip for my friends to join me out of town for Halloween. I had job training so I was going to be there anyways. One of my friends couldn't make the trip so it was left to me and another couple. Th…
Does a Ring Truly Define a Relationship?

Lately, it seems like everyone is getting the "Oh my gosh, let's get married!" fever. I don't know if it's due to the fact that the holiday season is starting to roll in or what, but for some reason a majority of the gi…
A Change of Heart Perhaps

Well, as my personal blog, I feel the need to tell you about my past Saturday night. My brother and his long time girlfriend of eight years are finally getting married on September 24th. A couple weekends ago I was supp…
Engagement Ring Shopping

I admit it! I have some standards when it comes to engagement rings. I've been called materialistic directly and indirectly so many times because of my opinion on the matter. I think that next to a wedding ring, it is t…
Your Place Or... Mine?

I previously had an article that I had posted on Datingish that involved the outcome and consequences for getting married too soon and what people, overall, thought was "too soon." In this article, I included a "sequenc…
Watching Your Proposal Makes Me Dream of My Own

I have seen two proposals happen in person. The first one was in a pretty popular location. It was sometime during high school. I was in New York City, walking out of Radio City Music Center after watching The Rockettes…
Just a Quickie: How Long Should You Wait to Pop the Question?

After seeing the responses from "Promise Rings are Immature" it got me thinking: what is considered the average amount of time a people are in a relationship when marriage should be expected? Some people I know they ex…