My husband and I started dating 12 years ago!  How long was your longest relationship?
I courted my ex for six years. During courtship we got to know each other but did not reach an engagement.
Oh I'm sorry that it didn't work out.  Were you in a long distant relationship?
him and her receptiveness to a marriage proposal.
Duration.
The average duration of courtship varies considerably throughout the world. Furthermore, there is vast individual variation between couples. Courtship may be completely omitted, as in cases of some arranged marriages where the couple do not meet before the wedding.
In the United Kingdom, a poll of 3,000 engaged or married couples resulted in an average duration between first meeting and accepted proposal of marriage of 2 years and 11 months, with the women feeling ready to accept at an
song came about, Monica stated in an interview with "Billboard" in August 2008, that the record was about "me being in a relationship years ago and somebody just disrespected to the fullest." During the process, she told Tank about a situation where an ex of hers "blatantly, openly cheated - as if people didn't know who his girlfriend was! And just the sound of her name would make my flesh crawl. So he was like, 'Well what did you call her?' I said