I (23M) wonder if I am too young to ask my (24F) girlfriend if 4 years for her hand in marriage?
I (23M) have been with my girlfriend (24F) for a little over 4 years, both graduating from college within the last calendar year. We have had marriage/future conversations routinely throughout that time, down to the cut of the stone for the engagement ring and agreement we don’t need a traditional wedding (content with eloping + celebration).
I have a great relationship with her family, as she does with mine, and we get along nicely with one another’s friends. Despite it all seeming on the up and up there are still a couple unknowns - living together for an elongated time, as it stands the longest we’ve consecutively stayed with one another is maybe a week and half for vacations and such (She lives with her parents, as do I still, east coast is expensive :P) Never have had the experience of living alone together. Another large piece is our age, still budding in our careers and further maturing, our lack of real world experience (and I’m framing this in the lense of full independence not in the naive sense) leads me to thinking, “does this make sense.” I love her to bits and I know I want to spend the rest of my days with her, I just don’t know when too soon is too soon, or if this is too young to be making a decision with such brevity. Anything helps, cheers.