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FH and I have been living together for 3 years in his parents house, so we have been throwing around the idea to move out and either rent or buy. Buying scares me because we are getting married in less then a year now but if we have the money it's a good investment. So not sure what to do, just know we are ready to move out soon.

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We've been living in an apartment together for about 3 years

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We live together. We lived in apartment before but once we go engaged we moved into my parent's house to save some money but we have our own section. I say stick it out to save some money to get your own place together. It'll be worth it!

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FH and I have lived in our house for almost a year now. We lived in an apartment for about a year there too. We pretty much started looking for apartments about 6 months after we dated.

I've lived out in Las Vegas and California, miles away from my family, so I was used to being on my own. I was homesick for about a week when I was out there, but it was all good after that. My FH hadn't lived on his own ever and he took a little adjusting (I know his parents did), but it was alright. I know their relationship is better because of it.

I had lived with my sister when I moved back here for about 4 years and when I first moved out to live with my FH, it was actually tough for 2 nights, but it was okay after that.

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FH and I don't live together yet. I have an apartment in my parents house and he lives at home. We are planning on buying a house next year alittle bit before we get married. We are trying to save money for the wedding and for the house so it's hard :/

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Posted by NurseCollz

FH and I don't live together yet. I have an apartment in my parents house and he lives at home. We are planning on buying a house next year alittle bit before we get married. We are trying to save money for the wedding and for the house so it's hard :/

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It's so hard saving for both!! We currently live apart, both with our parents. We want to buy a house, and we think it might be best to do that after the wedding. But I hate not living with him! We decided the compromise would be to find an apartment three months before the wedding, and use the nine months of the lease after the wedding for house shopping.

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that sounds like a good plan kfriytsz. it is definitely hard not living together and planning for a wedding and a house. we are hoping to start looking for houses in January
and move in together a few months before. I definitely feel your pain though! its very hard!

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Posted by Brittney22

I was in a long distance relationship with FH for 5 years! I lived on Long Island and him in Connecticut. So finally I decided to make the leap and move to Connecticut which was extremely difficult since I'm very close to my family and my mom is my best friend. At first it was hard moving out of my parents house but living alone with FH is honestly so much better. Now we have had our own place for 5 months :)

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FH and I have been in a similar situation! I've been living in CT for years now and he lives on LI. I'm now moving back to LI but have really grown to love CT and am really sad to be leaving.

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We have been living together for just over 2 years now. He was in the process of buying a condo when we first started seeing each other so I lucked out! We moved in together after 2 years of dating.

It has been difficult to think about spending so much money on a wedding when we have a mortgage and all of the other bills that come with living on our own but we will manage. Any sacrifices we have to make will be worth it in the long run!

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My in laws have been nice enough to let us live rent free for the past 4-5 years. We do pay for a lot in the house but it's still cheaper than rent on our own apartment. My DH has over $80,000 in school loans that we're starting to pay back and I'm a nursing student starting to accumulate some of my own. We are young parents (I'm 21 and my DH will be 24 soon) to a four year old, so living with my in laws has really helped us. We are currently saving and should be able to buy our first home in two years.

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We both lived with our parents and saved money. A little over a year ago we bought a house and moved in together. It is a big adjustment moving in together especially when you are used to being around your family all the time but it will be good for you guys. If you get a reasonably priced apartment you can def still keep saving $.

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We live separately now in our respective mother's homes. We're planning on finding an apartment 4 or so months before the wedding. We figure thats the happy medium between saving money for as long as possible, but also having time to adjust to living with each other before the wedding. The hope is to save up for a house and only be in an apartment for a year. Fingers super crossed on that one!

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We've lived in an apartment together for the last 4 years, wouldn't have it any other way!

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We've lived together for 8 years! We moved into our first apartment, teeny upstairs apt in his uncle's house, in 2006. I found out a week later that I was pregnant. So a lot of things got put on hold, getting married, a bigger place, etc. We've made it work all this time, first getting a bigger apartment and we were finally able to buy a house two years ago. But his mom and two sisters lived with us for the last three years, so it's been trying on us, our relationship, to say the least. They just moved out this weekend. I'm so excited it's just the three of us again!

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FH and I have lived with each other for about 3 years - the first 9 months was in an apt. his parents built for us in their home but after Sandy we had to find a place elsewhere so we have been renting an apt in Queens for about 2 years. Once our lease is up we are going to move back to Long Beach in our own apartment and then start saving for a house after the wedding.

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Posted by rcotter90

Right now fh and I don't live together at all. We both live at home with our parents about 2.7 minutes away from each other lol. We plan to move into our own place before the wedding probably a month or two before. We definitely don't want to come back to one of our parents houses after were married but we also want to save as long as possible. Hopefully it'll be a house we bought, but more likely an apartment we rent lol

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Same with us! FH & I live between 1 and 3 minutes apart (Depending on if you hit the traffic light to cross the street-LOL!) both at our parents homes to save money before the wedding.. we spend half or more of the nights during the week/weekend together at either house.. which only really works since we live so close and both are lucky enough to work in the same towns that we live.
We plan on looking for a place to live toward the very end of the year/beginning of next year to move in a month or two before the wedding to get settled.. not looking forward to wasting any money on rent, but think that it will be a little too stressful going through the home-buying process before we're married. Hoping to find an apartment to rent that doesn't have a yearly contract so that we can start searching for our forever home by next summer

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We've been living together for 2.5 years out of our 4 years together. The last year and a half we've been living in Rhode Island because of a job I was offered (I told FH he didn't have to move with me because we weren't sure if his company could transfer him, but of course he wouldn't even consider that as an option). We have no plans to look for a house any time soon for a lot of reasons -- we don't make enough to cover rent, bills, save for a wedding AND save for a house, plus we're not sure if we want to stay in Rhode Island or move back to Long Island (I love where we live and would gladly stay there forever but every member of our family and all of our friends in Long Island). FH is 'ready' for a house, but I'm not ready to settle down in one place just yet, haha!

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FH and I have been living together for just about 4 years. It was such a huge adjustment for the two of us, so I'm so glad that it was done before we got married (or engaged for that matter). Right now we're focusing on paying down our debt before thinking about houses. We're planning on moving down to NC next summer, so a house is not in the near future anyway.

Everyone's situation is different - ya gotta do what works best for you!

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FH and I don't live together currently. We did four years of long distance while we both went away to college and have been living at home with our parents for the last 3 years. Luckily my FH's mother rents the entire downstairs of her house to a tenant. The tenant will be moving out in the next few months and we're planning to move in a few months before the wedding. I'm a little stressed about the living situation being at his mother's and a lack of privacy but considering its a regular apartment that a stranger finds comfortable to live in it can't be too bad! I also can't deny a rent-free living situation! Savings are going to the wedding now, once we're married it's house saving time!

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I live in an apartment upstairs from my parents and FH lives in his parents house but in a separate area with his own door from the outside. He was going to move in January to me but now we moved it sooner in November because he works so much in the winter and we don't see each other as much. We figured that would make it easier. Big adjustment for him, its a big apartment but now there is 4 of us, I have two kids and he has none. I give him a lot of credit lol..We are hoping to buy my parents house sooner then later, If I get pregnant quick, Theres no way 5 of us can fit up there(plus were getting a dog when he moves in). Can you say to close for comfort lol...