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I don't understand how people don't move in before they get married. You expect to live the rest of your life with this person and there are so many things you don't know about a person or experience if you don't live together beforehand.

Personally, I'd move in when I felt it was right, there's no specific time, it varies depending on the relationship.

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I completely agree.  I would much prefer to move in and figure out how things really were in that setting.  But well, that just doesn't work in my family.  My sister was engaged to someone she had been dating for over 5 years, and his lease was about to expire, so there was no point in renewing it because the wedding was in like 1-2 months.  My dad only accepted because he sent my mom there to stay with them for that while...  And... the day before the wedding, he wasn't allowed to sleep in our house, he had to get a hotel (for which my dad paid for, but he has his own set of standards).

In my opinion, it's rather stupid... but well, I'd rather not create any drama in the family.  I wish my parents had lived together before getting married, maybe they would have realized BEFORE having kids that it wasn't going to work -__-'.

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A year and a half, so we'd be past the honeymoon phase and would be on the working-around-our-issues phase.

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Not every relationship has a honeymoon phase and many have phases last years.  There is no set time.  My current relationship never had a honeymoon phase and we are going strong.

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