How long have you been with your current "significant other"?

monster · 04-10-2009, 09:56 PM

some of us are young have have been with their SOs for a year and it feels like a lifetime, and some are old and their three years still qualifies as a new relationship. Some have been maried forever, some are almost professionally single..... So regardless of how long it feels (although please feel free to post and explain) how long have you been together? ...and I'll leave the definition of "significant other" to you too. If they're significant to you, they count, even if it's your mother

dar512 · 04-10-2009, 10:02 PM

Mrs. dar and I have been together 23.5 years (22 years of marriage plus 1.5 years dating). Seems like just yesterday...

monster · 04-10-2009, 10:03 PM

beest and I have been together for longer that we haven't been together -we met just before I turned 19 and this year I will turn 39. Wow, I still don't even feel 20, never mind feeling like we've been together that long!

glatt · 04-10-2009, 10:04 PM

Been with her for over 17 years, married for 15 and a half of them.

Crimson Ghost · 04-10-2009, 10:55 PM

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Originally Posted by glatt

Been with her for over 17 years, married for 15 and a half of them.

Same here.

Just out of curiosity, what day were you married?

October 23, 1993.
I wanted October 31, but the pastor refused.

glatt · 04-11-2009, 12:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Crimson Ghost

Same here.

Just out of curiosity, what day were you married?

a month before you. Sept 25th

monster · 04-10-2009, 10:06 PM

did Mrs Dar take your last name, Dar? and Glatt?

dar512 · 04-11-2009, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by monster

did Mrs Dar take your last name, Dar? and Glatt?

Yes. I was comfortable with it either way. It was her choice.

kerosene · 04-11-2009, 05:16 PM

I hadn't taken my husband's last name until just about a month ago. I finally grew tired of spelling that long German maiden name.

richlevy · 04-11-2009, 05:35 PM

I'm really on the cusp here. Our 26th anniversary is this summer. Counting our engagement and dating, we're really close to 30. It depends on the definition of 'been with'.

richlevy · 04-11-2009, 05:38 PM

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Originally Posted by case

I hadn't taken my husband's last name until just about a month ago. I finally grew tired of spelling that long German maiden name.

I once went to school with a girl who had a really long German last name. She was class secretary and once misspelled her own name on the meeting minutes.

kerosene · 04-11-2009, 09:33 PM

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Originally Posted by richlevy

I once went to school with a girl who had a really long German last name. She was class secretary and once misspelled her own name on the meeting minutes.

I have done that...signing a company email!

SteveDallas · 04-11-2009, 05:38 PM

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Originally Posted by case

I hadn't taken my husband's last name until just about a month ago. I finally grew tired of spelling that long German maiden name.

A while back I heard Kevin Smith's podcast (of Clerks, Mallrats, Dogmas, etc. fame). His wife Jennifer was on it with him, and she mentioned she could never figure out whether it was better to keep her maiden name, Schwalbach, which nobody could spell... or change it, and be one of thousands of "Jennifer Smith"s.

kerosene · 04-11-2009, 09:37 PM

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Originally Posted by SteveDallas

A while back I heard Kevin Smith's podcast (of Clerks, Mallrats, Dogmas, etc. fame). His wife Jennifer was on it with him, and she mentioned she could never figure out whether it was better to keep her maiden name, Schwalbach, which nobody could spell... or change it, and be one of thousands of "Jennifer Smith"s.

This was exactly my predicament. I now appear to be of Irish descent (instead of German) and there are likely 2 million of me in the state of Colorado. Before, I had not been able to locate another person with the same name as mine. Still, not having to remember military style spelling for phone companies and like for giving my name over the phone is worth it.

monster · 04-10-2009, 10:08 PM

I took beest's last name because we wanted the same name, hated mine, didn't mind his and couldn;t find anything original we liked. In UK at the time, it was still prety much the norm for women to change their name, but frowned on in academic circles if you had already been published.

View Poll Results: How long have you been with your Significant Other?
Single all the way, baby	3	4.84%
Single at the moment	6	9.68%
Less than 3 months	0	0%
3-6 months	0	0%
6 monthe - 1 year	1	1.61%
1-3 years	7	11.29%
3-5 years	4	6.45%
5-10 years	11	17.74%
10-20 years	21	33.87%
20-30 years	7	11.29%
>30 years	2	3.23%
Voters: 62. You may not vote on this poll

04-10-2009, 09:56 PM	#1
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	How long have you been with your current "significant other"? some of us are young have have been with their SOs for a year and it feels like a lifetime, and some are old and their three years still qualifies as a new relationship. Some have been maried forever, some are almost professionally single..... So regardless of how long it feels (although please feel free to post and explain) how long have you been together? ...and I'll leave the definition of "significant other" to you too. If they're significant to you, they count, even if it's your mother __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

04-10-2009, 10:02 PM	#2
dar512 dar512 is now Pete Zicato Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago suburb Posts: 4,968	Mrs. dar and I have been together 23.5 years (22 years of marriage plus 1.5 years dating). Seems like just yesterday... __________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich Schiller

04-10-2009, 10:03 PM	#3
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	beest and I have been together for longer that we haven't been together -we met just before I turned 19 and this year I will turn 39. Wow, I still don't even feel 20, never mind feeling like we've been together that long! __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

04-10-2009, 10:06 PM	#7
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	did Mrs Dar take your last name, Dar? and Glatt? __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

04-10-2009, 10:04 PM	#4
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Been with her for over 17 years, married for 15 and a half of them.

04-11-2009, 05:16 PM	#9
kerosene Touring the facilities Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: The plains of Colorado Posts: 3,476	I hadn't taken my husband's last name until just about a month ago. I finally grew tired of spelling that long German maiden name.

04-11-2009, 05:35 PM	#10
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	I'm really on the cusp here. Our 26th anniversary is this summer. Counting our engagement and dating, we're really close to 30. It depends on the definition of 'been with'. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

04-10-2009, 10:08 PM	#15
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	I took beest's last name because we wanted the same name, hated mine, didn't mind his and couldn;t find anything original we liked. In UK at the time, it was still prety much the norm for women to change their name, but frowned on in academic circles if you had already been published. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

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