Well, my answer is going to be a little convoluted.
I actually met my husband on a (different) online venue, and we began a correspondence that lasted for a year. We were intrigued by and emotionally involved in each other, but had never met as we lived in different states.
Finally we met in person when I was going to be in the area anyway, and things snowballed from there. Six months of torrid long-distance romance, flying back and forth constantly, taking too much time off work, racking up phone bills and flight miles.
After six months of long-distance dating I left the situation I had made for myself and moved in with him. Right away it was a lot like a marriage because we were raising his daughter and (part-time) my goddaughters together and we got joint bank accounts and insurance etc.
We'd been living together a little over one year when we started talking about marriage and coincidentally realized we were expecting. We didn't get formally engaged with a ring until the Christmas Eve after the baby was born, but we'd talked about that being the plan.
We got married about ten months later, just this last October. So we had been emotionally involved for over four years, but we actually got married on the third anniversary of our first date, which is when we first physically met. But we'd already been living together for 2.5 years and raising kids together by the time we got officially married, and depending on which one of us you ask, we'd been engaged for almost 2 years (him) or about 10 months (me).
BTW, TBF, congrats. I didn't know it had happened already. I wonder if we got married on the same day.
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