Your Relationship Timeline

Elle1036 · August 2012

I love hearing the stories of other couple's relationships... so share your timeline including when you met and any other significant events that got you to where you are now.

Mine:

January 2006: H joins my judo club. We meet. I promptly forget about him.
March - July 2006: Develop friendship with H. Break up with ex.
August 2006: Get drunk and make out with H at a "last bash of the summer" party.
August - October 2006: Explore FWB relationship.
Somewhere around there: I find out ex cheated on me during our relationship and freak out, drive to H's house, and demand that we be in a real relationship or nothing. Decide to be exclusive.
Summer 2007: Move in together (officially).
August 2008: Move to Houston together.
October 2008 - February 2009: Serious rough patch. Almost break up.
July 2010: Become sort-of engaged (I know, flame me) while floating in the lake during an on-the-water Brad Paisley concert.
August 2010: Start working with jeweler to design e-ring. Also, H moves to Ft. Worth for a masters program and our one-year LDR begins.
October 2010: H receives finished e-ring. Tortures me with it.
January 2011: Fully engaged in Taos, NM.
July 2011: H moves back to Houston.
August 2011: Move to MS (yay.)
June 2012: Married!

Now you?

CASK85 · August 2012

October 2008: Met at a bar, first drunken kiss, several dates throughout the month.

December 2008: First introduced him as my BF

January 2009: "I love you"

March 2009: Came home with me and met my parents

June 2009: His parents visited Chicago and I met them

September 2009: Moved in together

September 2009-2010: awesomeness

October 2010: started getting antsy about engagement . . . lame.

December 2010: Engaged!

October 2011: Married

JaniV123 · August 2012

April 2007- i added him on FB and we started talking May 27, 2007 we met inperson for the first time June 2007 I went to europe for 21 days and returned with mono and thus was homebounds for a month. July 15,2007 he asked me to be his gf July 2007 -December 2011 everything was fine, fights here and there, we both graduated HS, got into college, got jobs, started college, etc. Dec 2011 we had a huge fight almost broke up, talked it out. August 2011 we took our first trip/vacation together to DC March 2012 he called me up and we set a wedding date, thus begginng our engagement July 2012 started looking at e-rings Not much has happened other than maturing a lot since we still live with out parents and he graduates college this December godwilling

leia1979 · August 2012

May 2008 - Meet H in bowling league when my team bowled against his early in league. I sugested he would do well to get his own ball and shoes. That was about the extent of the conversation.

June 2008 - Chatted a few more times on occasion. He suggests getting together for practice. Practice was so awkward. We tend to high-five in league, and his hands were sweaty! He asked if I wanted to get food afterwards, and I said sorry, I have to go. Later on he emailed me to ask if I wanted to go out (he didn't have my phone number, just my business card). Still weirded out by the relationship with my ex, I said no.

early July 2008 - We stayed really late after league chatting. He mentioned his friend's band playing that weekend, and I said I'd come by. I went, we hung out, and went to Denny's at 2am afterwards.

July 8, 2008 - We went on our first real date (pizza and ice skating).

July 17, 2008 - I sort of got him to actually ask me to be his girlfriend.

May 1, 2009 - Moved in together. That first month was tough.

February 2010 - Went to Hawaii to meet his parents for the first time.

September 2010 - Got engaged at Disneyland.

September 2011 - Got married.

LaSak87 · August 2012

August 2005- meet in freshman chemistry lab
September-December 2005- hang out as friends/casually "date"
December 2005- decide to be exclusive shortly before winter break
March 2006- "I love you"
May 2006- meet parents
June 2006-March 2009- dating (brief rough patch summer 2008)
March 2009- engaged
August 2009- move to DE (first apartment together) and start grad school
November 2010- married

ravenray · August 2012

December 2008: Meet H for the first time at a birthday party. Discussed having sex standing up, I find out he thinks I am cute.
January 2009: Flirt over texting that leads to our first date.
August 2009: I leave for Germany and our 4 month long distance relationship starts. It was horrible.
I feel like I should have more to say in here but I don't. Life was good?
August 2011: We get engaged.
May 2012: We get married!

thejucheidea · August 2012

18 February 2008: The first anti-Scientology protest in Nashville. I'm wearing a black veil and he's wearing a Richard Nixon mask. He'd brought friends and his then girlfriend. Over the next year-ish, we see each other every month at protests.

April 2009: We bond over the fact that we both received cease and desist letters from Scientology's lawyers in California within a week of each other.

Late April 2009: Scientology's local security assaults a protester and threatens us at a regular protest. He drives down to meet with the rest of us and discuss strategy. Strategy continues into Skype, which we all begin to use daily to discuss Scientology and life in general.

September 2009: Horrible date with another protester; vow to never date another protester.

October 2009: Tyler messages me on Skype to ask if I'd be interested in going on a date. Long pause, think about that horrible date, think about how much more congenial than that guy Tyler is, respond with 'why the hell not'. Tyler isn't sure what to think, but we agree to go to a movie and dinner that weekend.

A couple of days later, October 2009: Good date. Very good date.

18 October 2009: Decide to make it Facebook official, to great critical acclaim.

January 2010: Tyler moves in because driving an hour and a half to see each other is lame.

May 2010: Our friend and fellow protester Zola moves in with us!

July 2010: Tyler meets my best friend, Casey. Casey approves. All's right with the world.

September 2010: We move to our house and begin the process of purchasing the house.

May 2011: I take Tyler out to California to meet Daddy's side of the family. Grandma apparently approves, as she gives us her wedding ring to use as an engagement ring.

July 2011: Zola moves back to Mississippi. I panic, as I've never lived alone with Tyler before. It turns out everything is okay.

August 2011: We buy the house! Yay!

November 2011: We open our first joint accounts.

February 2012: I have a meltdown and ask him through tears if our relationship is ever going to progress. He says that we'll be engaged by the holidays but won't say which one. He also says that he doesn't care how soon after engagement we get married because he just likes the pre-engagement trolling.

Swazzle · August 2012

2003-2007: See FI randomly at my roommate's house (he's friends with her brother). Ignore him.

June 2007: Go to roommate's graduation party. Ignore FI's attempts to talk to me. Get drunk. Make-out with FI in the bathroom. Skinny-dip with FI in the pool. I will spare you the rest of my hoe-fo-sho-iness.

August 2007: Decide we're "exclusive".

September 2007: Say "I love you" for the first time.

October 2007: I move into my new apartment. FI stays over every night. We decide he should just move in. Adopt kittenbabies.

October 2008: Move to a new apartment.

September 2009: Move to yet another new apartment.

January 2010: Adopt puppybaby.

June 2011: FI suggests we look at rings together (SQUEE!). I try a ton on and narrow it down to a few for him.

August 2011: FI proposes! We're engaged! OMG!

Present: Wedding planning

May 2013: Get married!

jemmini6 · August 2012

November 21, 2008: Met at a bar. I went up to get a drink and was waiting next to him. He told me I was short and somehow struck up a conversation (and I know you've all heard this before, but I think it's cute so I'll tell it again :-P) which somehow led to us joking that we'd get married in 3 years. He put it as an appointment in his phone for 11/21/11 as "marry that one girl from that one bar".

November 22, 2008: First date (yes, the very next day). We went to dinner and then out for a couple drinks, then back to his house to watch Spongebob (I made fun of him for liking a kids show, so he made me watch some to show that it's funny. We still watch it every weekend morning while we eat breakfast)

December 2008: Became 'official' (just before Christmas)

May 2009: Our first vacation together, he took me to Hawaii as my college graduation gift. His family decided to come as well, which was the second time I'd ever met them

June 2009: Moved in together

September 2010: Got engaged on our second trip to Hawaii together (alone this time)

November 2, 2011: Got married (about 2 weeks before our original 'appointment'). We would have chose the 21st, but it was a Monday, and too close to Thanksgiving)

GoldenPenguin · August 2012

January 2011: I move into my very own apartment.
March-April 2011: See him online, and pine over him for a few weeks. Show friends his profile, and they are convinced he is the one.
April 22, 2011: We meet for the first time, and he goes home with me that night.
April 2011 - present: Living in lovely, domestic bliss.

Thundah buddies fo life.

Peaseblossom55 · August 2012

February 2008- I go to visit my friend, her BF & some of his coworkers who are out bowling, I only stop by for a few minutes and leave. BF was there but I don't remember him, he said he remembered me and was worried I was so tiny and walking to my car alone at night.
October 2008- we were at the same Halloween party. I was dating someone else I don't remember him being there actually
June 2009- I break up w/ BF I'm bowling w/ friends and I complain to my friend ( same friend as above) that I need a new BF. She mentions she should set me up with her BF's coworker who is a really nice guy. I still remember her description of him to this day.
July 2009- Go on a group date with friends to see Avenue Q in the city
August 2009 we begin talking, at the end of August we go on our first date
October 10, 2009- we decide to be exclusive and are BF & GF. yay
November 2009- we meet each other's family at thanksgiving
march 2010 first vacation to the Bahamas
????????
The rest is unknown except that he moving in at the end of the month.

SKP82 · August 2012

January 2004: Start talking on the phone (introduced through roommate) at the beginning of the month. Middle of the month, he comes to visit.
February 2004: Then BF goes to Ranger School for 2 months. We can only communicate through letters and phone calls once a month.
May 2004: Say I love you.
August 2004: Go to PA to meet BF's family. BF moves to Germany for 4 years, being deployed to Iraq twice for 15 months and 8 months. Lots of hard times during these years. Take a break twice, but talk regularly and get back together.
August 2008: BF gets out of the Army and moves to FL to start civilian life (I lived in SC at the time).
August 2009: Move to FL with BF.
November 2009: Purchase home together.
July 2011: Get engaged.
May 2012: Get muuurrrriedd!

SKP82 · August 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_not-engaged-yet_your-relationship-timeline?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special%20Topic%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:136Discussion:ee29575d-23d6-41e0-8bfa-a05dfec12f3ePost:ac04541d-b81c-4347-8e0c-f22958998d56">Re: Your Relationship Timeline</a>:
[QUOTE]18 February 2008 : The first anti-Scientology protest in Nashville.<strong> I'm wearing a black veil and he's wearing a Richard Nixon mask.</strong> He'd brought friends and his then girlfriend. Over the next year-ish, we see each other every month at protests. April 2009 : We bond over the fact that we both received cease and desist letters from Scientology's lawyers in California within a week of each other. Late April 2009 : Scientology's local security assaults a protester and threatens us at a regular protest. He drives down to meet with the rest of us and discuss strategy. Strategy continues into Skype, which we all begin to use daily to discuss Scientology and life in general. September 2009 : Horrible date with another protester; vow to never date another protester. October 2009 : Tyler messages me on Skype to ask if I'd be interested in going on a date. Long pause, think about that horrible date, think about how much more congenial than that guy Tyler is, respond with 'why the hell not'. Tyler isn't sure what to think, but we agree to go to a movie and dinner that weekend. A couple of days later, October 2009 : Good date. Very good date. 18 October 2009 : Decide to make it Facebook official, to great critical acclaim. January 2010 : Tyler moves in because driving an hour and a half to see each other is lame. May 2010 : Our friend and fellow protester Zola moves in with us! July 2010 : Tyler meets my best friend, Casey. Casey approves. All's right with the world. September 2010 : We move to our house and begin the process of purchasing the house. May 2011 : I take Tyler out to California to meet Daddy's side of the family. Grandma apparently approves, as she gives us her wedding ring to use as an engagement ring. July 2011 : Zola moves back to Mississippi. I panic, as I've never lived alone with Tyler before. It turns out everything is okay. August 2011 : We buy the house! Yay! November 2011 : We open our first joint accounts. February 2012 : I have a meltdown and ask him through tears if our relationship is ever going to progress. He says that we'll be engaged by the holidays but won't say which one. He also says that he doesn't care how soon after engagement we get married because he just likes the pre-engagement trolling.
Posted by ahstillwell[/QUOTE]

I love this story and you. Hilarious.

SKP82 · August 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_not-engaged-yet_your-relationship-timeline?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special%20Topic%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:136Discussion:ee29575d-23d6-41e0-8bfa-a05dfec12f3ePost:0d48522c-391b-4b35-939d-6575b17cc951">Re: Your Relationship Timeline</a>:
[QUOTE]2003-2007 : See FI randomly at my roommate's house (he's friends with her brother). Ignore him. June 2007 : Go to roommate's graduation party<strong>. Ignore FI's attempts to talk to me. Get drunk. Make-out with FI in the bathroom. Skinny-dip with FI in the pool. I will spare you the rest of my hoe-fo-sho-iness. </strong> August 2007 : Decide we're "exclusive". September 2007: Say "I love you" for the first time. October 2007: I move into my new apartment. FI stays over every night. We decide he should just move in. Adopt kittenbabies. October 2008: Move to a new apartment. September 2009 : Move to yet another new apartment. January 2010 : Adopt puppybaby. June 2011: FI suggests we look at rings together (SQUEE!). I try a ton on and narrow it down to a few for him. August 2011 : FI proposes! We're engaged! OMG! Present: Wedding planning May 2013 : Get married!
Posted by rdr716[/QUOTE]

LMAO! I love how you ignore him for 4 years and then slut him up. I would expect nothing less! <img src="http://cdn.cl9.vanillaforums.com/downloaded/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-kiss.gif" border="0" alt="Kiss" title="Kiss" />

SKP82 · August 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_not-engaged-yet_your-relationship-timeline?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special%20Topic%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:136Discussion:ee29575d-23d6-41e0-8bfa-a05dfec12f3ePost:b8d1587d-2e1c-4f22-91d2-14a75bc2c97b">Re: Your Relationship Timeline</a>:
[QUOTE]January 2011: I move into my very own apartment. March-April 2011: See him online, and pine over him for a few weeks. Show friends his profile, and they are convinced he is the one. April 22, 2011: We meet for the first time, and he goes home with me that night. April 2011 - present: Living in lovely, domestic bliss. Thundah buddies fo life.
Posted by BriSox81[/QUOTE]

I think you should make a FUTURE relationship timeline.

Like:

Tomorrow: Randomly meet hunky dude at Dunkin' Donuts. Exchange numbers.
Day after tomorrow: First date and luuuurve.

Etc.

peekaboo2011 · August 2012

Spring 2004: Join Model UN in HS, BF is an active member.

Spring 2004: BF (and the rest of the bus) give me and someone else a TON of shiiit for making out on the bus on the way home from a conference.

Summer 2004: I move away.

(fast forward 7 years)

May 2011: I meet up with BF, his two roommates, and some other friends for drinks. We have a lovely catch up.

July 2011: I end up slammered on the floor of BF's apartment after a very rough night of drinking.

September 2011: I break off engagement with ex. Explore FWB with BF's roommate.

November 7, 2011: We all get super drunk at their apartment during a party. I ask BF if he'd ever kiss me. He says he'd love to, but it will never happen. I leave for SC the next day.

Thanksgiving 2011: I show up at BF's apartment to pick up my toothbrush on a caffeine high. We now have each other's phone numbers. Lots of texting ensues.

Post Thanksgiving-Early December 2011: BF and I are talking and skyping for like 3 hours a day. And texting. BF asks if he can take me out on an actual date when I come up for mom's retirement. Date set for Dec 15. He threatens to drive to SC after a run in with roommate's drunk friend who seems intent on forcing his way into my room to have sex with me. We arbitrarily decide on Dec 8 for our official anniversary - my birthday is the 14th, and then we have Christmas.

New Years - I met his parents

March 2012 - He met my parents

July 31, 2012 - I helped him move to a new apartment.

-----To be continued?

minskat30 · August 2012

March 2011: I join Match.

Late April 2011: SO winks at me on Match, which I think is a lazy way of showing interest. I tell my friend the same but she says I should wink back so I do. He then proceeds to email me and asks to go out.

April 30, 2011 (I had all my dates in my Outlook because I went out on a LOT of first dates): SO and I meet up at a wine bar. I was early (as always), he was a little late (as always)...I saw him walk in and my stomach dropped and I thought "This is going to be trouble"...never felt that way before.

May 3, 2011: Second date...he tried to get invited to my place. I said no.

May 7 and 14th, 2011: Third and fourth date.

Mid-late May 2011: We make it exclusive.

July 4th 2011 weekend: First trip together (San Fran and Napa).

Mid-July 2011: He meets my family.

Late-July (I think): First "I love yous"

September 2011: Trip to Vegas (had a conference so he kept me company).

November, 17, 2011: Trip to Cancun for my 30th where the whole "I want to spend the rest of my life with you" talk came up.

Mid-January 2012: Trip to India to meet his mom and brother.

End of April 2012: Trip to Austin for his 35th.

June 27, 2012: 99.99% positive SO bought the ring this day.

August 18, 2012: SO moves in.

August 22, 2012: SO's mom and brother come from India/England to meet my family.

Blue & White · August 2012

2003: BF dates my BFF

2003-2007: we go off to college. BF & BFF break up. And get back together. And break up. And this cycle continues for like...well, a while.

2007: I move up north.

Nov 2007: BF & I decide it's a good idea to date. He lives down south, so this is super long distance. Oh yes, and BFF gave me permission to steal her ex. She's awesome.

Nov 2007 - Dec 2010: LDR. Awesomeness, obviously.

Dec 2010: I get my butt outta school with a degree and move in with the newly employed BF

Mar 2011: I finally get a job. It took forever, seemingly.

Oct 2011: We get scuba certified! I have my 2nd (of many) panic attacks - he's since learned to basically ignore them.

Yesterday: I woke up screaming and scared the crap outta him. I'm reading a Dean Koontz book - that is my only excuse. I'm not normally this psychotic.

Today: I'm not sure - I haven't seen him yet

But I KNOW we're watching the OLYMPICS!

fizzylemonade · August 2012

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[QUOTE]Yesterday: I woke up screaming and scared the crap outta him. I'm reading a Dean Koontz book - that is my only excuse. I'm not normally this psychotic. Posted by Blue & White[/QUOTE]

I don't blame you. His books are so scary! But un-put-down-able too. The last one of his I read made me unable to walk in front of windows at night for weeks. So I'm not reading any more!

Stina51286 · August 2012

September 2007 break up with exbf, start to hang out with bff at the time a lot more and FI hung out with bff's bf
October 2007 actually met FI but we hated each other
March 2008 we started hanging out with the same group of people all the time
April 2008 I got the nerve to finally tell him I liked him
May 2008 it became offical
November 2009 FI buys house and we move in together
January 2010 we get our furbaby Maggie
August 2010 we talk marriage (FI said within one year we'll be engaged).
March 2011 FI buys E ring
Aug 2011 FI proposes.

lovelyheather · August 2012

August 2004: Move into same college dorm as FI. Meet him randomly in the hall. He accidentally tripped himself and I laughed.
Labor day weekend 2004: everyone else in our dorm goes home for weekend. We bonded over Super Smash Bros and doing laundry.
All of our freshman year: we date other people, but end up being best friends.
May 2005: Move out of dorms and I break down crying when it came time to say good bye.
July 2005: we both are single and I convince him to drive 6 hours across Michigan to come visit me. We use alcohol to break through the friendship barrier and start dating.
All of our sophomore year: happily dating and essentially living together in my dorm room because my roommate was never there. We can still share a twin bed if needed.
May 2006: I transfer to a different university. Long distance relationship begins.
October 2007: FI gets a transfer at work and moves into my studio apartment
May 2008: we get our first real apartment together
December 2008: I graduate from college, yay!
2010-2011: my sister, cousins and friends all seem to be getting married. I get a little bit BSC. FI and I have a long talk about where our relationship is going and when. This timeline had us getting married in 2014.
July 7, 2012: FI proposes a "year ahead of schedule" and I am shocked!

Hopefully August 2013: married

CASK85 · August 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_not-engaged-yet_your-relationship-timeline?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special%20Topic%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:136Discussion:ee29575d-23d6-41e0-8bfa-a05dfec12f3ePost:e6a5e014-7da8-4f0c-80e4-a482cf081c5e">Re: Your Relationship Timeline</a>:
[QUOTE] July 7, 2012: FI proposes a "year ahead of schedule" and I am shocked! Hopefully August 2013: married
Posted by lovelyheather[/QUOTE]
Heather, I feel like I missed your proposal story. . . can you link me to it if you made a post or tell me nowwwww! :)

mookow86 · August 2012

2004-2008- H and I are majoring in the same thing and have all the same classes; we talk in classes but that's about it.

January 2008- I ask H if he wants to work with me on a semester-long group project. He says yes and we find another group member. We start talking online, at first about project stuff which transitions to non-project stuff. I realize he is very funny and he makes me laugh. A lot.

May 2008- We graduate and I move to PA while he stays in OH to work on his master's degree. We continue to talk online and occasionally flirt, but I tell myself there is no point in taking it any further since we live so far apart.

Fall/Winter of 2008/2009- We make plans to hang out whenever I return to OH to visit my family. He gives me a cow magnet (I collect cows) from his trip to Switzerland/Europe. We continue flirting online.

March 2009: One time when I return to OH we get Thai food and he pays, which is a first. We go see a movie and talk for an hour in the parking lot afterwards. We share an awkward first kiss and bemoan that we didn't realize we liked each other when we were living in the same state.

March 28th, 2009: We're talking online and I ask him what he would think about making it facebook official. He says he would like that so the 28th becomes our arbitrary anniversary.

April 2009: He comes to visit me for the first time in PA and we have a really great time.

March 2009- August 2010: LDR. We see each other once or twice a month. Suckiness.

August 2010: H leaves for his four month trip in Asia. LDR suckiness continues.

December 2010: I fly to meet H in Thailand and we spend two weeks there. H proposes!!!! And he returns to the U.S. with me :-D

February 2011: H moves in with me.

August 2011: We move to a bigger apartment.

May 2012: Murried!

audrewuh · August 2012

July 2009 - Dad diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer. Scary shiiit.

August 2009 - decide I need to stop sleeping with dude who is sleeping with 5 other girls, I need new friends, join student organization where FI is president

Swear off dating for at least 1 year.

September 2009 - hang out with student org and make friends with all the officers, flirt with FI's BFF because FI is waaaay out of my league. Plus, flirting is fun.

October 2009 - Go to NOLA, get druuuuunk, but not as drunk as FI's BFF, have a night of confessions, fall head over heels for FI, but am already semi commited to FI's BFF. Date BFF for 11 days.

October 29, 2009 - Get slammered, FI's BFF (then my BF) gets so trashed, he's pucking blood, I freak, I've already made up my mind to break up with him, FI's other BFF sees me topless.

October 30, 2009 - Break up with FI's BFF right before football game. Tell him we have a chance, but I need to focus on myself. Horribly awkward football game ensues

First week of November - Tell FI I have had feelings for him since day one, but it wasn't fair to his BFF, so I wasn't going to persue anything. At friend's dorm, FI holds my hand, we go on road trip the next day, flirt, snuggle, etc. Come home, fall asleep in his room watching South Park, a few weeks later, first kiss.

December 5, 2009 - snows for the first time in years, first date in park. I slip and almost bust my a$$, but FI saves me.

January 1, 2010 - "I love you" on my BFF's bed while sobering up

Summer 2010 - long distance from Waco, drove a lot

Fall 2010 - decide we'll get married, just not sure when. I move off campus and into house with my BFF

Spring 2011 - start looking at rings in late Spring, realize we have NO money. FI works 50 hrs a week, barely makes rent, he adopts a kitteh bebeh, he moves into his own apartment

Summer 2011 - I get full time job 1.5 hours away from his apartment, move up north into my own apartment. Drive sucks. He's working 60 hrs a week, still struggling to make rent, loses two jobs

Fall 2011 - I adopt puppy bebeh. We live happily together forever. Frustrated with no progress financially towards ring.

Christmas 2011 - go to FL to meet his family. They think we're already engaged. That was awkward. Come home, mom offers great gma's wedding ring to us, as well as a plethora of diamonds to chose from

January 2012 - I'm OOT, FI picks up completed e ring, tells me all about it

February 20, 2012 - FI proposes, dad's there, everyone's super happy

Present - engaged, having struggles about what to do education/vocation wise in the next 5 years, but struggling together

April 13, 2013 - we'll get married!

melmac86 · August 2012

2000-2004 - Attend same high school/same class, but don't really talk much.
March 2007 - become FB friends and talk through FB messaging for a while.
April 15th, 2007 - first date. Bowling, pizza/movie, I spent the night and did things out of character for a first date, but real sexy times did not happen.
May 2007 - spend a weekend in WI Dells together. Begin staying over at each other's houses more often and call it official, though we can't remember the exact date so we use 4/15/07 as our dateaverssary.
October 2008 - we take a break for a month and he decides before Thanksgiving that he wants to come back. I let him.
June 2009 - first "real" vacation together in Orlando, Fl.
September 2009 - move in together.
2010 - more vacations to Ohio and St Louis.
2011 - adopt kitties together and go to California.
Present - trying to decide if we are right for each other forever and me questioning if our relationship is really ever going anywhere. Told him maybe we should live as roommates, but feeling really conflicted about what I actually want.

What a depressing end to my post

PrincessJas · August 2012

Oooh, this is a fun one!

March 2009: BF joins my research team while I am away at school, and we attend the same conference. Being more familiar with the conference center neighborhood, and him not knowing anyone, I invite him to lunch <15 minutes after we meet. Have a great conversation over lunch, and I'm struck by what similar histories, hobbies and interests we share.

May-August 2009: I come home from school and spend the summer training BF on the software used by our research team.

August 2009: I invite BF to bake an amazing cake with me and watch a movie while it's in the oven. Seriously uncomfortable with him in the room watching Data and the Borg Queen's kiss (yes, we're both Trekkies).

March 2010: We attend same conference - I throw a glass of ice on current BF when he offends me at dinner...maybe too comfortable with the co-worker?

May 2010: We start playing golf together just for kicks. We almost always invite my dad.

July 2010: Our advisor sends us to Flagstaff for a week to work with a research group there. We walk into town to get coffee every morning and have dinner together ever night. We find places to hike together, and walk around the town in ever spare moment, pointing out which houses we like, how we envision our futures, the families we want to have. We share our histories with each other extensively. Man, I'm in love with this one.

August 2010: I get up the balls to ask him to go to tea tastings with me. He loves it! I ask him what our relationship is, and he thinks for a long time before he says, "Just friends". I am heartbroken.

September 2010: Our research team goes to Pasadena for a week. He and I spend every spare moment walking around the city, sometimes in silence, sometimes talking about ourselves.

December, 10 2010: I am about to go back to school half a country away, and then to grad school who knows where. We have a backpacking trip to Big Bend planned for January, and just before that, a week in San Fransisco for a conference. We are up late working on our presentations - I'm at the office and he's at his house. We have a steamy, multi-hour email exchange replete with inuendos and euphamisms (I still have the exchange). He tells me he wants us to be together. I go to his house, and we decide that with me going away, it's just not possible.

December 11, 2010: We have dinner at his place (a weekly routine), get drunk (not so routine), and uh...

December 13-20, 2010: We're in SF for the week at a meeting. We spend every moment together.

December 23: He asks me to be his GF (long distance - he stays in Cali to visit family for the holidays). I say yes (of course!)

April, 2012: He tells me to find an engagement ring I like.

July, 2012: He makes sure he knows what style of ring I like, and asks me my size. He complains he can't talk to my dad because father is spending the summer out of country...

bgrjourney · August 2012

August 2010 = Met FI in a mutual friends bowling league. he usually a ladies man cant sum up the balls to make a move. me usually the one whod rather be chased am pulling out all the stops to get him to open up.
September 2010 = we become officially exclusive
November 2010 = i make a move id been planning on for a while that conviently places me in his area
March 2011 = we start our official first joint accounts
May 2011 = he officially moves in with me
September 2011 = I start to get the wedding itch
October 2011 = we send out our first christmas cards
December 2011 - January 2012 = we have real rough times
March 2012 = we break up and I move from ny to nc to be closer to my family
April 2012 = we decide that we don't want to live our lives without each other
May 2012 = FI proposes
August 2012 = FI is making plans to move to NC with me

our wedding is August 2014

Beads921 · August 2012

Fall 2006: FI and I met at some point in here for the first time. I don't remember how or when, but it would have been at school. I kinda liked him, but also wasn't too concerned about him since I had lots of other things going on in my life and didn't really know him.

September 2007: We wound up at the same party. We got to talking, and agreed to go to another party the next night. He stood me up the following night. And the following Friday. We finally got together and went to a carnival on the Sunday. About 3 weeks later we made it official.

May 2009: FI tried to break up with me. This was the best thing that ever could have happened in our relationship.

August 2009: Our first weekend away together.

August 2010: FI moved into my apartment.

April 2011: We took our first real vacation together.

May 2011: We adopted our furbabies.

July-August 2011: We bought and moved into our house.

November 2011: FI proposed.

July 2013: We're getting married! And then taking another vacation.

Elle1036 · August 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_not-engaged-yet_your-relationship-timeline?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special Topic Wedding BoardsForum:136Discussion:ee29575d-23d6-41e0-8bfa-a05dfec12f3ePost:8985df90-3ba2-4c88-ae81-a5570b5094c3">Re: Your Relationship Timeline</a>:
[QUOTE] December 5, 2009 - snows for the first time in years, first date in park. I slip and almost bust my a$$, but FI saves me.
Posted by audrewuh[/QUOTE]

Hey, I had a job interview the day you had your first date. I remember because of the snow.

beanbot2002 · August 2012

Sometime early 90's: we meet, in passing, at the school my mom taught at. It is a one time thing and we only exchange forced "hellos" at the urging of our mothers who are talking.

September 1994: Meet in choir. Become fast friends.

1994-1998: Become the best of friends. Spend tons of time at each others houses. Donald spends the time wanting to murder each and every one of my shitty ass HS boyfriends. Oh, and we both are picked for show choir and spend a couple years singing and dancing our hearts out. We were gleeks before it was cool.

1998: Donald joins army right out of HS and leaves for boot camp.

1999: He is stationed in Germany. I spend time with his mom and family during his few and far between allowed calls home.

December 2001: I get knocked up by some other dude. Donald is there for me.

September 2002: The Bean destroys my vag on his entry into the world.

2002-2004: Donald does 3 tours, including Iraq. We write frequently.

2004: He comes home in one piece but traumatized by his experiences.

2004-2009: We continue to date other people, all the while remaining best friends and never quite approving of either's choices in the opposite sex. He moves to North Carolina, but has re-inlisted in the Reserves in VA, so he crashes on my couch during duty weekends/weeks.

September 2009: Donald comes to VA for Elijah's bday party. We get drunk and do the dirty deed. He moves to Atlanta.

September 2009-July 2010: Shiz gets awkward and we barely talk.

July 2010: He comes for a short visit. Nothing happens.

September 2010: He comes for Elijah's bday. We bone some more.

February 2011: I travel to Atlanta to visit for the weekend. We spend the weekend boning and go to see George Lopez live and to an awesome dinner. First real date. It was amazing.

May 22, 2011: He texts me and says "It's getting harder, every day, to be away from you and Bean." I call, we talk, he confesses his love for me and says he can't bear to be apart. We begin a LDR.

May-December 2011: Continue LDR with trips back and forth.

December 29, 2011: He moves back to VA and moves in with me.

June 1, 2012: We find out we are expecting, but unfortnately lose our little one a few weeks later.

August 1, 2012 @ 3:39pm: I compete in a one woman, wet t-shirt contest, at my desk.

audrewuh · August 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_not-engaged-yet_your-relationship-timeline?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special%20Topic%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:136Discussion:ee29575d-23d6-41e0-8bfa-a05dfec12f3ePost:71a8055b-21a5-46f9-87eb-3c42c5d2c41d">Re: Your Relationship Timeline</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Your Relationship Timeline : Hey, I had a job interview the day you had your first date. I remember because of the snow.
Posted by Elle1036[/QUOTE]

<div>Haha! That's awesome. My mom called me pannicking because I was going to be out driving in the snow. I had to go buy gloves and a wool coat. I had NOTHING appropriate to wear on our outdoors date. I ended up wearing a tank dress and tights because that was all I had. </div><div>
</div><div>Then I slipped on the frozen over "boardwalk" in Discovery Green. He caught me in mid air.</div>

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