He has learned Hindi for me and loves living with me in India. We visit the US once a year to meet his family and Dubai to meet my friends. We have been married for almost five years. He doesn’t speak Hindi and my parents don’t speak English - it was really funny. On our first date in India, we were picking out his outfit for our wedding. Nobody was in favour of this arrangement because it was so bizarre! He is American and I am Indian, but I lived most of my life in Dubai. We talked over Skype and chats and we told our parents we wanted to get married. “I got married to my husband without meeting him. People said we were crazy, but we just knew it was right.”

We are now happily married almost four years! We actually met on a Ryanair plane on the way to Malta from Manchester, where I was studying abroad at the time. “Me and my husband got engaged after dating ten months at the ages of 22 and 21. I’m from San Francisco and he’s English - I now live in the UK! We combined our last names I was AbiNader, he was Dyer. Sounds crazy, but we just knew and lived super far apart. “I got married after seeing my now-husband of two years for only eighteen days in person.

We’re celebrating our fifth anniversary this year and (this is actually a secret) expecting our first child.” I told everybody and surprisingly everyone said they were NOT surprised. I thought about keeping it a secret for a couple months until it was more sensible to say, but in the end I was super excited and couldn’t resist. I felt a bit embarrassed to tell my parents and friends because I knew they were going to think I was crazy. We set the wedding date for a year after but still, it was pretty crazy. “I got engaged after only three months of dating. Still want to spend the rest of my life with him.” Three years later, I am still very happy and so glad we rushed into things. Sometimes not dwelling on decisions for too long is healthy and having a baby and getting married when you’re still in the giddy phase makes it extra special. Still not married and in no rush as the baby became priority, but have never looked back. “I got pregnant before our one year anniversary. I didn’t have to pay rent anymore and 15 years later, he has not had to give me back my deposit.” “I married my landlord three months after moving into my apartment. As they say, when you know, you know.Ĭontinue below to learn about couples who quickly fell into love and stayed there. There’s something undeniably special about a person trusting their gut and trusting in their partner. But after perusing (via Instagram DM) the whirlwind romances of some MR community members, I’m starting realize that when it comes to love, sentiment often trumps statistics. That said, who ever called caution the spice of life? Yes, marriage is a high stake union, both emotionally and financially. Granted, the odds aren’t great for couples who opt for a shotgun wedding for example, people who date longer before they get married report higher marital satisfaction and lower risk of divorce, according to a study cited by The Cut. The same goes for Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson: when I first heard that the couple had only dated for a few weeks before Davidson popped the question, my first instinct was to roll my eyes to infinity and beyond. Take, for example, the recent engagement of Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin they’re both under the age of 25 and they haven’t been consistently together for even a year, so their decision to get married has made many people (myself included) a bit wary. Out of respect for the preciousness of such a wholehearted decision, I am working on being less judgmental when I see someone following their heart - no matter how skeptical I might be about the rationality of their decision-making. After I said it, I felt like I was surrounded by warmth, like I was precisely where I was supposed to be. One of those moments was saying I love you, romantically, for the first time. But I’m quite certain I can count on one hand the times I’ve done something because it felt overwhelmingly right. I splurge on new sneakers sometimes because I want to. Sure, I exercise at least three times a week because I feel like I’m supposed to. I can’t remember the last time I did something because it felt right.

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