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Aww
I love cute couples. Even being single I still love them.
Yep I agree with GWST and SCC - My best friend's parents got engaged after knowing each other for three weeks and were married for 30 years (it only ended because my friend's mum died) My friends Dad had been with a different woman for three years but had never thought to propose to her.
I was so young when I started that I didn't really know how else to be but with him so I always went back. Even though I eventually knew how bad everything was, I was too scared of what else to do so I just went back every time.
But I know thats hardly the way things work so I cant/wont condemn it. However i am very skeptical of the only being together 5 months thing. Engagement isn't just something you do for shits and giggles. Its a big step and it comes with bigger responsibilities and needs maturity, imo.
ok, maybe saying 'everyone' was a bit of an exaggeration, but i still think it takes time to be sure that someone's right. i had an ex who i was SO sure was the right one. i was totally positive - no doubts at all. but still after a few years it all went pear shaped. and it wasn't anyone's fault, it just happened that when all the intitial breathlessness and positivity wore off, there just wasn't enough there. and i know lots of people who have had that experience.
now that's just me, and if other people want to, great, and i hope it works out for them, i really do. i just personally would not make that kind of commitment that early in the relationship.
i don't think you can ever be sure that you'll really be with someone forever. that's true.
but i think you can be sure that you've really got something, you've passed through the honeymoon period, all the initial fantasticness has gone and you're still crazy about them and that you work, as a couple and as a potential family.
that's what i'd want to hold on for.
if you're sure sure sure about someone after 5 months then i'm guessing you'd still be sure sure sure after 5 years, and i guess i just don't see any disadvantages of waiting. maybe when you're a bit older it is different, but when you're 16/17/18 like the original subjects, then i think rushing into a lifetime of commitment is a bad idea. even if it does work out for the best (which i know it does sometimes).
We don't really have that over in the UK. I don't think it would mean much to other people.
I just get sick of people trying to split us up, and thinking that our relationship is there to be disrespected. *shrugs*
or slap them and cut their hair off :P
Engagement these days is far more about taking the relationship onto the next stage of commitment than it is about getting married ASAP. We got engaged quite young because we wanted to commit and we knew it was right, but we didn't get married for years afterwards.
Sure, engagement might not work out, it might fail. But that doesn't make it wrong to want to make an outward sign of commitment.
I know someone who had three relationships and got engaged to every girl. I think its ok if you realy feel its right but sometimes people do it when they dont *mean* it. Its like when people say I love you without meaning it. I cant stand it. Or have sex with someone without meaning it. Or marrying someone without meaning it. Im probably just a bit annoyed by it though. Marriage is about a lifetime commitment to one person.
But anyway. Just a rant, not directed at you kermit
But in the subject they are not really rushing into a lifetime commitment are they? As I said before marriage is a lifetime commitment and here the subject is engagement, not marriage... They are getting engaged, so what, did they say they were to get marriednext month?
And at the end, isn't saying "I love you forever" a life commitment, it's not because an engagement got a deeper meaning that it necessary mean more than "I love you forever"...
There is no good way of doing anything in life, you just have to do what feels right for you and know that in life there is NO guarantee to ANYTHING...
Works for love and anything elset...
Nah, I agree. That's the only reason I'd get engaged, it's almost like an appointment to marry the person (how sterile-sounding, but hopefully it makes sense
I don't think it's to do with places, more that the feeling, sentiment and motivation attached to engagement varies from person to person/couple to couple/relationship to relationship.