Would waiting 4.5 years to get engaged be too long, or am I overthinking the timeline?
My girlfriend and I have been together for just over three years. A few months after we started dating, I moved about two hours away for college. We both knew that would happen from the start, and despite the distance, we’ve been going strong.
I know I want to marry her. The part I’m struggling with is timing.
I have about a year and a half left in my program, and after graduating I plan to move back to our hometown. Practically, waiting until then to get engaged would be easier because we’d finally be living near each other.
But that also feels like a long time to wait. We’d have been together about four and a half years by then, and part of me thinks that if I already know I want to marry her, why wait that long just because I’m still in school?
I’ve been thinking about proposing next summer instead. That would leave us with around one semester of long distance before I graduate and move back home. Then, once I’m finished with school, we could get married anytime after that, whenever works best for us.
Would you wait until the long-distance part is completely over before getting engaged, or does getting engaged during that last semester seem reasonable?