Why You Should Date For 5 Years Before Getting Engaged
Get comfortable with friends
It’s nice to marry someone once you feel like you know their friends well and that they’ve accepted you. It’s not imperative, but it’s a really nice feeling. I know because I’m about to marry my boyfriend of seven years, and by now, I have years of memories and experiences and inside jokes with his friends. I don’t feel like an outsider coming in at all. I’m part of the inner circle now.