# Married Dopers - how long did you know your spouse before marriage?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/married-dopers-how-long-did-you-know-your-spouse-before-marriage/774108>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 7, 2016, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/married-dopers-how-long-did-you-know-your-spouse-before-marriage/774108 "2016-12-07T13:57:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Elemenopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5e925/32.png) [@Elemenopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elemenopy)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/married-dopers-how-long-did-you-know-your-spouse-before-marriage/774108/101 "2016-12-14T05:11:35Z")

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> [@Daffyd](#):
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> We met on New Year’s Eve, 1988, moved in together 6 weeks later, got married in 2003 as soon as it was legal in Canada, and just realized we’re coming up on 28 years… and they said it wouldn’t last!

So you weren’t the only gay in the village, after all? 😃

(Sorry, I love Little Britain, Daffyd…) Much happiness to you and yours!

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**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/married-dopers-how-long-did-you-know-your-spouse-before-marriage/774108/102 "2016-12-14T16:30:26Z")

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> [@DaphneBlack](#):
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> I selected 5-10 years – it was 6 years (almost exactly) before we got married, 5 til engagement. But we started _dating_ pretty much immediately after we met.

Same here. We started dating the day after we met, and we got married six years (to the day!) after we met.

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