Groovy story, dude.
Met my boyfriend on match.com. Emailed back and forth for a week or two. Met for coffee one Friday afternoon. Met for lunch Sunday of the following week. Went out to dinner that following Friday, which turned into Saturday and Sunday. He asked that Sunday evening if he could change his facebook status. Awww. Moved in together 5 months later.
Total time elapsed from meeting in person to “in a relationship” facebook status: 2 weeks.
You guys are interpreting “serious” as “boyfriend/girlfriend”? That isn’t how I interpreted it at all.
I interpret serious as exclusive and holding yourself out to the world as partners, i.e: boyfriend/girlfriend. Only place left to go from there is engagement/marriage.
Met Ms Hook in November and asked her to marry me on New Years.
Come July 1 it will be 42 years.
Then I change my answer to one day. Also, I’ve been in a bunch of “serious” relationships.
How do you define a “serious” relationship AClockWorkMelon?
At the point when, if your friends ask “is it serious?” you respond “yeah.” 
But seriously, my definition hinges on the emotional aspect, I guess. I’ve been in a bunch of relationships, but only in one where I had a serious (hence “serious relationship”) emotional connection to the person I was with.
With my wife we told each other we loved each other after about 2 weeks, were essentially living together after about 3 weeks, officially living together after 3 months, engaged after 1 year and married a little over a year after that, our first child was born a little over a year after that. I think that covers you for almost all variations on “serious” you might want to think of.
But, if you want just boyfriend/girlfriend status. I have an ex that became my exclusive girlfriend somewhere during the course of our first (72 hour long it would turn out) date. That one only lasted about 4 months though and the data is a bit skewed because we were both coming off of recent breakups from very long term relationships.
I guess I can see that. I was looking at it in a more linear way, breaking it down into specific stages.
Flirting
Casual Dating
Exclusive Dating/Relationship
Cohabitating
Engaged
Married
Since you can be in a serious relationship before cohabitation, I stuck it in the “exclusive dating/relationship” category.
I see your point, though.
Flirting
Casual Dating
Exclusive Dating
Serious Relationship
Cohabitating
Engaged
Married
Divorced
Glad I didn’t skew the curve; I just am not attracted to that many men, much the less having them attracted back, so…by the time there’s flirting, it’s already probably serious.
Well I had him planned as a one night stand, he called two days later and came over. Then two days after that. Then pretty much every night after that for the next two weeks he was in town, then he left. Since I had just dodged a bullet and an engagement ring, I was glad for a no-strings spring-fling. We said goodbye, see you in a few months.
Then he called me the first night he was away. And every night after that for a whole week, until he decided just to quit his travelling job and move here. He’s been here three years.
Total time from meet to move-in planned was about 24 days. (He finished his last contract so it ended up 6 weeks until he moved in) So I voted for less than a month but more than a week. If you ask him though, it was less than a week.
Things would have moved much more quickly, I think, if we’d been living in the same time zone when we first met. (I’m counting first in-person meeting here; we’d known each other online for years before that, and I had a hunch I would have a honking huge crush on him in person, but at least for me, I don’t think it’s possible to know whether the attraction will stick in person until that point.)
First in-person meeting to the first thing that one might really call a “date” - about a month (stupid time zones!)
We pretty much knew right away that it was going to be serious - from first “date” until he moved cross-country in with me was about 2 months (and planned on a week’s notice). In the middle, we racked up more than a thousand minutes a month on the phone to each other, plus e-mails, etc.
We got married last September, and this Memorial Day weekend will be the third anniversary of that first in-person meeting. 
From first ‘romantic’ encounter on a Tuesday at 5pm, until a monogamous relationship was determined, 24 hours. I was supposed to be at work at 5am, but somehow didn’t leave until 5pm Wednesday (and I was SOOOOORE).
As I was about to leave, she said, “we need to do this again”, and then as I was about to walk out the door “you know I don’t do sloppy seconds, right?”. Instant relationship, but I’d known her for years, just never in “that” way.
Quickest move in from actually meeting for the first time ever to moving in together, 6 weeks, biggest mistake of my life.
Current girlfriend, and probably future wife, (not 1st wife, only wife), after about 4 weeks asked me the dumbest question I’ve ever heard in my life. “Can I tell people that you’re my boyfriend?”. :smack:
I met my current partner on the Saturday of Memorial Day Weekend 19 years ago. By July 4th we had rented a house together; we had spent almost all the time together in between. I had my reservations at first, but I was just finishing up 2 years in therapy and I was very receptive to new experiences, and I thought to myself “what’s the worst that can happen? It won’t work out, and we’ll break up. It won’t be the first time.” I don’t know if it would have happened that way at any other time in my life. Did I mention that we’re still together and very happy 19 years later?
Roddy
My ex - we met on a Saturday at about lunchtime, went out on Saturday night, I was slightly astonished but very happy to hear “I love you” on the phone the next day, and we were instantly in a serious relationship, with the proposal coming IIRC about two weeks later. We remained so for about three years (cohabiting, wearing the rings etc), and are still very good friends more than a decade later. In contrast my current partner and I had known each other for more than two years before I finally managed to make myself irresistible! And we’ll be at ten years in two weeks’ time.
My partner and I both have identical recollections of the moment we met. It can be summed up as “Oh god, I hope he feels the same way I do.” We spent that entire weekend together, without leaving the apartment. And 22 years later we both still feel the same way.
We met up and stayed out talking until the coffee shop closed at 4 am. Then we moved to IHOP and stayed there until 9 am. He was getting his furniture delivered to his apartment, where he’d just arrived a week earlier, so we went to meet the movers. We both skipped work the next day, and have been around eachother pretty much 24/7 since then. It’s been great!