How long should you be together before getting engaged? At what age is the right age to get married?
Female. It depends. You need to make sure that you know each other very well before you get engaged, to see how you cope when things go wrong, right, get difficult and all the rest of it. You need to know each other’s view of the future, and on important issues like whether you will have kids, how you will bring them up, what your attitude to financial matters is and so on as these are things that can put a lot of pressure on the relationship if you have very different views. I don’t think there’s any “right” age to get married – it should be to the right person, and you can’t say when you are going to meet them! Better to be older and marry the right person that jump into something that’s not right because you think you should be married by a certain age. It’s worth bearing in mind that people change a lot during their twenties in particular though – some people will grow together and some people will unfortunately grow apart, so it’s always worth giving it long enough to make sure yo
