Since when do you start counting the length or period of time of a relationship?

First date usually means the first time you went out (or hung out) together in a romantic way. Most people count from that time forward. Congrats, by the way!

From the first kiss onwards, it’s never the same again. Nineteen years & counting…....shit, if this was prison i’d have been out on good behaviour long ago :¬(

Go with the month you got connected and started dating. As you said there was something in the air, I would assume that was the time you both felt as one.

I think the first BJ is a good benchmark (just don’t tell her that).

I’m with @augustlan on this one. The first date is when you first go out as a couple, so you have been ‘together’ since then.

Yep, first date honey, until you marry and then folk usually count how long they are married. As in, “oh we’ve been married 26 years now….” and congratulations, I hope you’ll always be as happy as you are now, sending huggles xx

I think a general timeline is given from the first date…

For my husband and I, we count it from the night we met, because we both fell pretty hard that first night.

Since you started dating. That is the thing that everyone counts from. Not that hard.

Are you sure, @Ranimi23, that this is the right girl for you? Have you had her fertility checked to make sure that she can produce children for you? All the other things that have disqualified people in the past are absent?

My wife and I dated (hung out) for a few months, but we didn’t start “counting” until we decided we were going steady (or whatever you call it).

Of course, these days “dating” may have been replaced with “hooking up” and “going steady” may have gone the way of the dodo.

Congrats on finding “the one” @Ranimi23!

We counted it from the first day we decided to date, which was about a month after we met. We picked an arbitrary day on the calendar for it.

We’ve been married for 7 yrs, have had only one wedding anniversary, but always remember our “years together” anniversary in summer…this year it’ll be 14yrs.

My partner and I count from the first date. 25 years, 5 months and 9 days.

Usually people will say, “We’ve known eachother for a year, but have been dating for three months.” That pretty much takes care of “how did you meet?” as well.

My partner and I met online so we count our time together from the month we couldn’t stop talking to each other on gchat even if we didn’t think of ourselves as a couple then.

I prefer to count starting with the first date. I think pretty much everyone counts this way.