When is the right time to get engaged with my girlfriend? We’ve been together for over 2 years...

If you’re poor, go ahead and het married. If you make decent money, never ever do it

Seems like a fantastic time OP. Take her to a nice restaurant with a great view, buy a big but fake diamond ring, and propose.

no idea what 'the equivalent to a month' even means, but definitely live together for a long time before getting married, I'd honestly say no less than half a year.
In my mind moving in together is the one step before proposing.no idea what 'the equivalent to a month' even means, but definitely live together for a long time before getting married, I'd honestly say no less than half a year.
In my mind moving in together is the one step before proposing.

You /thread a post, idiot.
You ended your post with /thread, which is absolute cringe. You only reply to other people's post with /thread.

Now unironically go back to red dit, faggot.

Relax, buddy. I’m not dating a dumb roastie who’s gonna suck me dry. She has integrity and doesn’t play dirty like that. Also, I’ve already Assumed the dominant role in the relationship. (as it should be) judging by her mother, she’ll age like fine wine.

I’m not asking IF I should marry her, I’m asking when would typically be an appropriate time

I would never date a liberal feminist. That’s how you lose everything in a marriage.
Fair advice, but it really doesn’t get much better than this. She has a perfect amount of all attributes that I need in a woman. To this day I haven’t met anybody else that I would consider dating. All in all, very fair advice and I’ll consider it.
Why?
>living with a girl and receiving sex without marrying
Why even get married at that point?
Fair advice though

>Fair advice, but it really doesn’t get much better than this.
I'm a few years older than you and I might be a little jaded about this due to my personal experiences, but I had a man I really loved who I dated for several years through my late teens and early 20s. Thought he was the man of my dreams, perfect man for me, yadda yadda.
Then I grew up and changed, and by the time I was 25 I didn't like him as much and he didn't like me as much, and we wanted different things in life. Had an honest conversation, broke up, which sucked because we lived together and all, but I was really glad we didn't get married at 22 like we wanted to.
I'm just telling you to wait till you're a little bit older because life is weird and your early 20s are a time where shit changes a lot. Both you, and her, and what you want out of life and out of relationship might change so much and your soulmate might turn into someone who is just not quite good enough for you anymore. And while breaking up is a pain in the ass, divorce is worse especially if you get kids involved.

This is really great insight. I appreciate it. Something I’ll definitely keep in mind. What ways did you Guys change and split apart?

I wanted to settle down and have kids, he wanted to move abroad and further his career without having kids. This was the thing that made us sit down and talk about breaking up.
At that point, tho, we realised that we had been falling apart for years without really realising it.
My emotional needs grew more complex as I grew older because I went through a lot of really rough shit in my early 20s and he was just not there for me as much as I needed. I noticed I grew super detached from him emotionally, I stopped confiding in him.
I changed a lot in my appearance and I noticed he liked me less and less: I used to be someone who really cared about fashion, make up and hair and over time I just realised I was mostly doing to fit in with a bunch of stupid cunts that I didn't even like much, so at the end I just stopped doing it and changed friends circle. He stopped liking me as much, too.
He got more focused about status and money when he started focusing on his career, which I always found appalling.
He started being pretty prone to anger due to stress, while I started becoming more and more introverted and quiet.
I started cultivating some kind of masculine/nerdy hobbies I always wanted to get into and he was pretty turned off by it because he liked how feminine and "classy" I was when we met. He started hanging out with people I disliked due to his job. He started drinking more, etc.

We never even argued much, we just liked each other less. I was very young and tried really hard to fit in when we met, he got older and started working really hard on his career when we got older, and at the end we just weren't compatible anymore.

Fuck me sideways.
this was meant for you, obviously.

Nah she’s not the one, you’ve had sex before marriage, and you haven’t lived with her long enough, you’ve done my first point, which makes my second one irrelevant because that marriage won’t be made in its purest form, seek another woman

Honestly sounds like a pretty shitty situation to have been in. Sorry to hear that, and I hope you’re doing better now. Did you guys ever discuss having kids and future aspirations before marriage. My gf and I eventually want a kid (I want a son, she wants a daughter) and we also both discuss possible future projects/business ventures that would involve collaboration between us

>Nah she’s not the one
Why? And who is the one? How would you even know unless you’re me?

Yeah I am. Married, have a kid, waiting for my second. Very happy. Thanks user.

Anyway. Yes, we talked about the future and when we started dating we were on the same page. But then as time went by he changed his plans, and I changed mine (I wanted more kids, he wanted no kids). We grew apart emotionally, changed interests, changed appearance, changed habits, was just not the case to keep dating anymore really.
Shit happens, and I'm just telling you because if you told me when I was 20 "when you turn 25 you're going to dislike your boyfriend and you're going to contemplate suicide because breaking up will be too hard" I would have laughed at you. And I got fucked over pretty hard.

>You /thread a post, idiot.
No, you /thread a thread in a post, dumb dumb.

Some context to help your tiny brain understand:
Somebody asks a question
That question got answered in a post and said post concluded the thread shut ("/thread") as it was the only answer needed.

You don't do it in your own post, you fucking brainlet.
No one who has been on Jow Forums for more than 40 minutes would ever unironically end his own post with /thread. You might answer to someone else's post and say "/thread" if you think that their post gave the only answer needed, but you don't say it at the end of your own post.

Go away. Or at least lurk moar.

Any time is the right time if that's how you feel. You don't have to get married immediately after you propose anyway, you can take a year or two.