Ellejay Posted June 14, 2015 Posted June 14, 2015 I've read somewhere that if your significant other & you have lasted 8 months of the relationship without breaking up, you will end up marrying this person... Those who are married, is this quote applicable to you?
Babs22 Posted June 14, 2015 Posted June 14, 2015 I've read somewhere that if your significant other & you have lasted 8 months of the relationship without breaking up, you will end up marrying this person... Those who are married, is this quote applicable to you? LOL. Obviously everyone here who is married lasted at least 8 months with our spouses or we wouldn't be married. LOL. I did date a guy in high school for 4 years. I broke up with him when I was 18 and so glad that I did. I dated my husband for 8 years (we lived together for 5 of those years). Got married, been married for 20 years, but not sure I married the right one. There are no guarantees. Dating 8 months does not mean that he/she is a keeper and its going to last forever, anymore than dating for 8 years is an indication you have found Mr./Mrs. Right.
Art_Critic Posted June 14, 2015 Posted June 14, 2015 not even close... I'll bet I had 5-6 relationships make it to the one-two year mark and never got married.. 2 were even my fiancés at one point.
OldRover Posted June 14, 2015 Posted June 14, 2015 Nope... 8 months is nothing.... like mentioned, it could be 8 months or 8 years. I've never had the "perfect" mate... some pretty close however. And I've had a few that I could spend my life with. However, you never really know until you have a LOT of time with them... and 8 months or 8 years is not enough. 1
Arieswoman Posted June 14, 2015 Posted June 14, 2015 I've read somewhere that if your significant other & you have lasted 8 months of the relationship without breaking up, you will end up marrying this person... No. 2
MJJean Posted June 14, 2015 Posted June 14, 2015 I've read somewhere that if your significant other & you have lasted 8 months of the relationship without breaking up, you will end up marrying this person... Those who are married, is this quote applicable to you? Good grief, who writes that claptrap? My ex and I did marry after 8 months of no major fights or break-ups. We were both seeing other people (probably why we could stand each other in the first place...we had people we actually liked on the side) and we divorced after 5 years of marriage. Would have divorced much earlier, but there were 2 kids (one being the reason we got married in the first place and the other being the reason I stayed the last 2 years...both birth control fails ) My DH and I probably fought and "broke up" weekly/bi-weekly/monthly for a while there. Then we'd make up in a day or three. I don't think we went 8 months at a stretch without a "break-up" fight before we got married. Been married 12 years, together for 15. I'm absolutely sure he was and still is "The One" and we've come a very long way from our rather tempestuous beginnings. Statistically, we should have split long ago. I'm the child of a divorced parent, I am divorced, myself, and my DH was my exit affair partner, so stats say this marriage has a very high chance of failure. Yet we've been happy with each other and are still very much in love. Whatever voodoo some blogger or PhD prints, whatever stats say, the truth is that it's all about finding someone who is the right match and being truly committed to each other. 1
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