February (tentative) Upload Schedule 📌

Loves Bitca

Most people I've known, including myself, planned to between themselves to get married but didn't call themselves "engaged/fiance" until the did the official proposal/announcement and made (at least tentative) plans for the date, venue, etc.

Lia Garcia

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Stewart Denew

Congratulations on forthcoming auntiehood :)

x_Rhi_x

Well jeez...way to dampen poor alleys happiness in her relationship! Lol. You do you, alley! My sister got married at 18 and is still with my brother-in-law and happily married. theyre in their 40s now :)

You're 'engaged' the moment you want to be. As you said, it has no legal status, therefore it's entirely cultural and therefore absolutely none of your business. It's up to individuals how they define their relationships. Plenty of people know/assume they'll one day marry, but don't consider themselves engaged until a proposal, or until they have a set date. It's common all over the world (I'm in the UK).

Koz

He's a lucky sonuvagun. 👍🏻

SpikesEcho

Well a word of caution - I've been there....madly in love, whirlwind romance, the time of our lives, unlike what anyone else around us had, never fought, together for years, promise ring given, talks of the future/marrying/kids, interwoven lives. And it all ended in a firey mess, leaving only a ruined life (at the time) and complex PTSD. Ya gotta not trust in your perceived reality nor rely too hard on expectations you have that belyingly seem natural/a given, as hard as that is.

Alley Box

not an engagement yet haha, but we are basically engaged, just not officially yet 😂 but yes i feel the same, which is why we r gonna wait to have our wedding

SpikesEcho

Future sister in law.....did I miss that you were engaged? I think I remember a promise ring, but not an engagement. Eeek you're so young 😭 (I'm a sorta-anti-marriage person, so don't mind me lol)

Esther Boogie

You're outside your jurisdiction on this one, Sheriff. It's nunya biz.

Michael Matthews

Your close to the end of Buffy you should watch the Buffy unaired pilot

Tim St. Croix

In March it will be interesting to see the bags under your eyes getting more and more pronounced with each upload. When the hallucinations start it will be time to visit the 'rents for a few nights.

Stargazer1682

I feel like that's pretty common. There's the mutual understanding and conclusion that you'll eventually be engaged, and ultimately married; and then there's the moment of making the first (and subsequently second) step official. I'm not even sure it's necessarily a new convention; courting has often had the objective of getting engaged and then married. Some of those traditions have changed, where the lines between those steps has blurred; and others don't even care about the formality.

Sheriff Uchiha

Maybe it's a cultural thing. We don't have 'promises rings" over here. To me, you two are engaged, and those are engagement rings you are wearing. It sounds to me like he already proposed. 'engagement" has no legal status as marriage or in-laws do; so you are engaged the moment you agree to marry each other.

Alley Box

lol well we have talked about it. he has said he wants to be married, i just want to wait a little longer bc having a wedding rn would be kinda crazy. but in every sense besides a proposal, we r pretty much engaged, i wear a promise ring and so does he 😂

Sheriff Uchiha

Wait, he doesn't know 😄 ? As soon as two people agree to get married, be it on a set date or just "someday", they are engaged.

Alley Box

lol not engaged yet! but i just call her my future sister in law 😂

Sheriff Uchiha

If you are engaged to your boyfriend, why not just call him your fiancee? I just think "fiancee's sister" seems easier to say than "future sister-in-law."