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View Poll Results: How long till you moved in together?
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0-6 months
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30 |
40.00% |
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6-12 months
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8 |
10.67% |
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12-18 months
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16 |
21.33% |
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18-24 months
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5 |
6.67% |
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24-36 months
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2 |
2.67% |
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36 months +
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7 |
9.33% |
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Waiting/waited until married
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7 |
9.33% |
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22-04-2004, 03:17 PM
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Valentine Smuggie/New Mum
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Glossop
Posts: 9,896
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How long were you together before moving in?
When did you feel was the right time to move in together and was it purely to be together or were there other factors involved?
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Laurie
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I hope that my child, looking back on today
Will remember a mother who had time to play;
Because children grow up while you're not looking,
There are years ahead for cleaning and cooking.
So, quiet now cobwebs go to sleep.
I'm nursing my baby, and babies don't keep.
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22-04-2004, 03:45 PM
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Mark and I got together on 24th January 2001 and moved in to our house on 6th December 2002 so it was almost 2 years.
In all honesty, the reason we moved in together was because Mark bought this place as a project but we fell in love with it. Although I wasnt really keen on leaving home, I loved him and wanted to be with him so decided to go for it. Id have been happy to still be at home with mum and dad now but its all worked out perfect and it was the right thing to do.
I think its something youve got to really think about though and no one can say when its going to be right.
Even now, I know that the only reason im here is because mum knew id be ok - if she hadnt, shed have told me and id have stayed at home!
P xxx
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22-04-2004, 04:07 PM
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Ryans proud mummy
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Middlesbrough
Posts: 10,656
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I moved in with Jonathan roughly after 8 months. This being because we were only seeing each other at weekends because of us living an our apart, and he was doing so much driving back and forth. I don't drive you see...
Also, we just wanted to be together, it felt so right.
It came at the right time, because while we were considering it, my work asked me if I would like to re-locate in a different branch which luckily was exactly where Jonathan was living.
It meant more money, and also us being together...
It was the best thing I've done, it pulled us closer together then I ever thought was possible.
On the downside, it has made me more domesticated! LOL
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22-04-2004, 04:19 PM
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Soon to be mummy of two!
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Back home in the shire of Aberdeen
Posts: 14,145
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Er, a month?
Our parents thought we were lunatics, esp as I had only just broken up from a long term (6 years) relationship but it has worked! It was purely to be together, I reckon you always know when the time is right.
Rachael
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22-04-2004, 05:21 PM
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I am the Bron and only
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 11,172
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hmm difficult question. We shared a house after a year but it was as house mates and we lived with my best mate. about 8 months later we bought a house but I still had my own room to escape to which was wonderful then i 'moved' downstairs about a month before we got married. Odd I know but it worked for us
B
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22-04-2004, 05:33 PM
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Proud Mummy of 3 xxx
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 2,084
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We met in the january, went to Iceland on holiday 2 weeks later, and he moved in at the beginning of may. Prior to that he had only been spending 4 or 5 nights a week at mine!!! I did have a sneaky felling that we were rushing things a bit, but it felt right, and still does 2 years later.
Louise xxx
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22-04-2004, 06:23 PM
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Getting on with real life
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: somwhere out there
Posts: 12,522
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Didn't move in together until we were married, which was 16 months after getting together ...... Army life means no house until marriage, well, unless you want to rent privately!!
Dating to engagement = 4/7 months (unofficial/official)
Enagagement to Marriage (and move to house) = 9 months
H 
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 The day I married my best friend
 September 21st 2002, Brecon
  &  - March 22nd 2006 Our family is now complete.
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23-04-2004, 04:03 AM
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Super(tired)mum
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Posts: 6,131
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We got together November 1999. I bought my own flat June 2000. Mark got a job 200 miles away August 2000. We bought this house August 2001. During the year apart Mark did a lot of driving up and down the country and I was just waiting for him to realise that he wanted me to live with him, as soon as he realised it was a good idea, I put my flat on the market and started house hunting. Of course I then had to wait another five months for him to propose, but we are now exactly where I want to be.
Nicola
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23-04-2004, 04:58 AM
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Happily married Mrs B!
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Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Cambridgeshire, UK
Posts: 1,665
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Well, Jamie and I got together when we were 19, so still living at home. I think we could have lived together after a couple of years, but we both wanted to go to University first, so it wasn't until we had been together for 5 years that we moved in. The rest, as they say, is history! 
Jessx
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Did the Deed on
Saturday 15th June 2002
Farringford Hotel, IOW
Amelia Kathryn born 1st September 2005!!!
Olivia Mae born 17th March 2008!!!
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23-04-2004, 05:59 AM
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Smug Mrs
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Dorset
Posts: 11,177
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We moved intogether after 7 months. I was at uni and sharing a house with friends while Paul was working and had his own flat. Our landlord decided to sell up and so we all had to move out. We started looking for another shared house but Paul just said "oh you can move in with me if you like" so I did. It was a bit quick but we've been really happy and it has worked out really well. If it wasn't for me having to find somewhere to live then I don't think we would have moved in together so quickly.
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Teresa and Paul - 2nd October 2004
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23-04-2004, 06:57 AM
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Oy, watch it, Spaceman!
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: The heart of the Ribble Valley - the safest place to live in Lancashire!
Posts: 20,840
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We thought about moving in together the first year we were together then changed our minds - we kind of liked having this lifestyle where we had weekends together and the weekdays on our own!
After we got engaed and seta wedidng date we thought we'd better find a house to live in together - otherwise people would think we were a bit odd, being married and living a few miles apart. So I sold my house, and we found the house we are in now and bought it. Moved in in May, got wed in December.
Took Nick anohter two months to finally move all his stuff out of his house into our 'new' one though!
N xxx
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Nikki and Nick married 14/12/02
George Nicholas Smith born 23.9.03
Leo Philip Smith born 20.3.05
"Help!" said Eddy
"I'm scared already.
I want my bed
I want my teddy"
http://www.myspace.com/nikki_i_like_shoes
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23-04-2004, 07:38 AM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: London
Posts: 3,082
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I have lived with 2 blokes previously to Mikey, here are the stats...
1st one was 18 months (7 year relationship) convenience mostly.
2nd one was 3 months (2 year relationship) cost & convenience.
& Mikey was just over a year - we wanted to be together! He only lived a mile or two down the road so it was daft not to |
23-04-2004, 08:51 AM
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Can't touch this
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Under the stars
Posts: 8,800
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4 months!! Stayed for the weekend but never left 
Couldn't fight a good thing (stayed together house sitting for his sister after 2 months!)
Lo x
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Lo & Mark - 15th September 2001 
My gorgeous  James, arrived 03/10/05 
and  Olivia completes our family, 29th March 2008
Hammertime!
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23-04-2004, 09:00 AM
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....ish
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Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Scarborough, N Yorks, UK
Posts: 5,057
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awwwwwwwwwww. Lived with chris after a year and 2 months. Actually just realised i moved out of home 4 years ago next month - wow!
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23-04-2004, 09:40 AM
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Ey Up Me Duck!
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: No fixed abode..
Posts: 3,506
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Matt & I Bought our first house after 5 years of being together. I was only 16 when I met Matt so I was not going to buy a house with him until I was a lot older.
We weren't particually looking for a house but we saw it and it was a good deal. so we took it.
Also our relationship was going a bit stale of just seeing eachother a couple of hours a night.
Karen
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Karen
Live your life until Love is found Or Loves gonna get you down Mika
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23-04-2004, 10:09 AM
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Should have mentioned that Mark actually moved into my parents with me 9 weeks after we got together! He came up one Saturday night to stay and hes never spent another night in his parents again as we went straight from mum and dads to our place.
Cant believe I forgot that
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23-04-2004, 11:09 AM
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Mummy to my gorgeous son
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Berkshire
Posts: 769
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Well...........3 days!
No, i met Dave 3 days before i went travelling to Australia, and after 2 months i came home to be with him, and he literally picked me up from Heathrow and we have lived together ever since!!!!
Everyone said we were completely mad, and when i think about it, it could have all gone very horribly wrong, but we are now married, and have been together for over 4 years!!!
Libby
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at Wentworth Golf Club, Virginia Water
Mummy to Tom
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25-04-2004, 03:10 PM
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Lady G, that's me!
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Sunny Stourbridge
Posts: 10,072
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We moved in after about a year I think, we lived together at Uni in a shared house and I had my own room, but that was only for my stuff really, I never slept in there. (there were four other blokes in the house hehe) We lived all over then and bought our house last August....
Wow, that means we have lived together for about five years now...I can't imagine NOT living with him actually, when we were at uni and living apart, we used to be on the phone for about two hours and then one of us would end up getting in a taxi to the other persons at all hours because we wanted to be together so much....pass the sick bucket hehe
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 Lady Rools
Vivacity, Playfulness, Honesty, Strength
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25-04-2004, 03:16 PM
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Ryans proud mummy
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Middlesbrough
Posts: 10,656
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You softy you Rools!!!
No seriously, how romantic! <swoon>
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25-04-2004, 04:00 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Yorkshire
Posts: 17,256
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Officially Brian moved in 10 months after we started seeing each other. 6 months before that though he'd got a flat of his own but spent most of his time staying here that really he may as well have just moved straight in. I think he only really got the flat so we didn't feel we'd rushed into things but it was a waste of time him having it because we just wanted to be together.
From first meeting though we actually moved in together after 26 years!!!!!
Ang xxx
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My beautiful son Ryan arrived 6th August 2006 at 7.10pm weighing 7lb 6oz 
It is true that we don't know what we have till we lose it, but its also true that we dont know what we have been missing till it arrives 
