Is it important (to you) to know how long exactly you've been together with your partner?

No, couldn’t tell you. Think our first date was sometime in April, 1990, but not too sure on exact date or even month.

It’s not important to me but I know the exact date that I met my wife. It was the same date as the San Francisco Bay to Breakers 12K race (May 20, 1990). I even remember her first words to me, “You don’t look like your picture (from a dating club)”. I replied, “Yeah I’m uglier”. HA! We got married on February 14, 1991. We’re still madly in love. Exactly how low we’ve been together? You do the arithmetic.

My girlfriend and I know exactly when we started dating when we got back together. And we know when we first went out 28 years before that, and what our second date was before she started dating the man she was married to for 25 years.

Hell no. I barely remember how many years.

It’s a female thing!!! The first of anything is important to us; & IF you are important to us, that makes EVERYTHING we do together important to us!!! @gondwanalon‘s response clearly shows the male perspective. IF it can be related to a sports event then it might be remembered. The guy that I dated for 15 years could tell me the date EVERY football player joined his team, his wife’s name as well as the names & ages of all the children, yet he couldn’t remember our anniversary. All that told me was that he was more important to me than I was to him & he couldn’t understand WHY I didn’t want to get married!!!

@gondwanalon Just to score (pun intended) some brownie points with the love of your life. Today is March 13. So as of tomorrow you will have been married 31 years and 1 month. Don’t forget to get her some of her favorite flowers to say “thank you for making me so happy”. Your thought will happen on a most unexpected day & it will make her feel all warm and fuzzy inside

Oh yes, Feb 14, 1991, occurred on a Thursday

I just asked my husband a couple of weeks ago if our anniversary was 28 or 29 years. I know the date, but could g be bothered doing the math.

I don’t care about the exact number of years, I don’t care about doing anything special on our anniversary, but it’s nice to remember the date more or less.

My dad can never remember if his anniversary with my mom is the 30th or 31st of May, but I helped him figure it out for their 50th anniversary, he knew the year and we could figure it out by looking up the day of the week, because I pointed out to him it would not have been a Saturday (too late at night) had to be a Sunday. The 50th came and went, and last time I asked him, he couldn’t remember 30th or 31st, and I didn’t commit to memory either.

My 30th anniversary is in a few weeks. My husband asked me last night what I’d like to do for the occasion. I’ve been busy planning summer camping trips and completely forgot to plan something for our anniversary!

I never remember the wedding date haha! So no.

I like to remember the dates we started dating, bought our house, got married, and adopted our daughter. Plus, of course, birthdays. I think these sign posts along the journey are important.

Not really. I just concentrate on her birthday and our anniversary.

@Nomore_Tantrums Those are usually the 2 most important ones

Yup! @SEKA

I’m terrible with dates. But I remember our anniversary because it was a holiday we made up while we were dating.

(We chose a random date to have our own Valentines Day without the crowds and craziness.)

But how many years? I’d have to do the math, otherwise I don’t really keep track. Same with birthdays. Sometimes I forget how old I am. :P

It’s important to me in that I like to celebrate that day. Tomorrow would have been 17 years since I first met Jeff. I am already getting weepy. We always acknowledged it every year.

I don’t remember when we first met. I know it was in 1987. And it was shortly after that when we got our first apartment together. Strictly platonic at first. We were friends first. When we made the decision to explore our romantic feelings for each other we agreed that we would always be friends however the romance went.

After I proposed to her, I heard some advice “guru” on TV say that if it would be impressive if I remembered the date of our engagement. I used it as a 4-digit security code for our apartment. That’s how I remembered our engagement anniversary. I had no problem remembering the wedding date.