Your family already considers him family.
They already refer to him as your fiance or even your husband.
Whenever others find out how long you have been together, they are clearly surprised.
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2.By now, you are completely comfortable in your relationship.
You dont feel pressured to get married in order toprovehow much you love each other.
You dont care if anyone else knows how happy you are together.
All that matters is the two of you know.
You spend almost every waking moment together.
You arent married, but you know each other as well as any other married couple.
You are proud of how far you have come as a team.
5.Whenever you see your families at holidays, they ask about marriages and proposals and rings.
They take a stab at figure out what is taking you two so long to make your relationship official.
6.People make old fashioned assumptions about why you arent engaged.
They assume you are waiting around for him to propose but he just wont make the move.
You are on the same page.
Thats why your relationship has worked for so long.
7.Your family already considers him family.
They know he is here to stay.
8.Instead of wearing wedding rings, you wear promise rings.
Or carry matching keychains.
Or have complementary tattoos.
No one else realizes this, but that doesnt matter, because you arent trying to impress anyone.
9.You have been together so long that some people genuinely forget you arent married.
You get holiday cards with his last name paired with your first name.
You get asked about how your husband is doing at the hair salon and dentist office.
You have stopped correcting people about your relationship status because you basicallyaremarried by now.
10.Maybe you are planning on waiting a few more years until marriage.
Or maybe youneverintend on getting married.
You are going to stay together forever.
You are going to last a lifetime.
