Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire How long did you wait to propose to your girlfriend?

we dated about 6 months, I proposed to her with the idea we'd get married a year later once our lives settled down

found out she was pregnant the next day.


kinda took the shine off the proposal the night before.

married 1 month later.

got married by a preacher who wanted to do all this pre-marriage counseling horseshit with us. About 10 minutes into the conversation I realized where he was going, told him ...look man, she's gonna have a baby, its past time whether we're compatible or not in the eyes of the church.

He just shut his book and asked me when we planned on having the ceremony.

its all good though. Been married 19 happy years. And the math is easy. All I do is add 1 year to however old my boy is.

I knew immediately she was the one for me, but it took me a little over two years, at age 21, to ask her father, a retired Lt Col. air force Viet Nam veteran, who I greatly love and respect, for her hand in marriage. A taciturn man of outstanding moral and personal character, and me, a college student with very little wisdom at the time…it was a somewhat nervous moment that I can recall like it was yesterday. I remember thanking God after he smiled, hugged me, and said "yes son."

We are going on 31 years, with three outstanding children, ages 19, 23, and 26.

She is by far the best thing in my life. She is beautiful, even tempered, has great social skills, great sense of humor, great maternal instincts, is smarter than me, conservative, Christ-loving and adventurous…she is as close to perfection on earth that I could ever hope to find.

13 years.... been married going on 22 now.... Pick the right one and it seems to work.

Which one?

5 months. Our first date was September 17th, 1996 and I proposed on Valentines Day 1997. We were married September 6th 1997.

2 years. I haven't regretted it yet. 17 years later and 3 wonderful children 10, 13 and 16. Best decision I've ever made!

Somewhat of a love story you could say. We started dating when we were 15, got married at 22. Two beautiful girls 8 and 10. I thank the good lord everyday for what has been given to us.

Waited about 5 minutes after she came out of the doctors office with the news she was pregnant. She was 18, I was 17, been almost 36 years ago. Have 2 awesome daughters 4 grandkids and another on the way

2d date

5 months.
Marriage made it almost 12 yrs.
5 yr break......been back for about 8 yrs.
Did not remarry.
I'm older and don't give a chit if she stays or goes.
But sometimes........I kinda like having her around.
Sometimes I wish she'd take her junk and GTFO.

Rather have a big gun safe full of stuff and antlers on the wall.

I think if you would put guns and deer before the wife, then its time to get rid of her. IMHO. Sounds like you have other priorities.

6 months. Married 3 months later. That was 33+ years ago.

Untill she started having the big "O", then I popped the question. She answered, "Oh my God, yes, yes, yeassss"!!!!

After Trump won.

Six months of dating. Loved her by then and was happy to be with her all the time. We got married by eloping. There were some difficult times the first ten years or so but we stuck it out. Next year is our 50th Anniversary. I am a lucky guy.

I have no wife (evidently you missed the part where I did not remarry).

Don't need somebody for validation.
Not unless she has big t*ts and some good hunting ground.

LMAO

Very true hookeye

my first response was "not long enough", but there have been more good days than bad, and two children i could not do without, now both grown adults.

26 years ago I was working seasonally for the Forest Service and trapping coyotes in the winter. Etta and I had been dating for two months.

I normally got laid off around the last week of October due to weather in the mountains. We had a late winter so we ended up working longer but I still had to get my traplines out. I was long lining back then and had a lot of ranches to trap and a pretty tight schedule to keep to cover the ground I wanted and catch enough coyotes to make wages.

I was still working days and running traps at night and sleeping very little. Etta went with me one night and I came in with a pile of coyotes about 2330 and got ready to start skinning. She came out to the fur shed and offered to help me skin. I knew already she was the one but that sealed it. I proposed on the spot. In what can only be considered a monumental lapse in judgement, she said yes.

We celebrate 26 years this February.