I must admit, i've always thought that if everything in the relationship was balanced, both partners were obviously happy, and everything was going very well in-terms of both partners being able to respect one another and give and take, then a proposal at 2 1/2-3 years is acceptable.
If you're like me in relationships (lolll
) you've seen, heard, done it all with an individual by the 2 1/2-3 year marker. You know him well enough by then, and, if he doesn't propose by now, he just might not.... I was with my SO for nearly 2 years before he proposed (although we never married, and he's a zainy idiot!
) lol so i'd wait at least 2 years before deciding...only because you need ample time to "suss" out any behaviors/ideologies/thoughts/mannerisms that will by that mark be blatantly apparent. From the marriages i've seen around me (like ones that lasted decades and decades) these people married only knowing each other for a year and maybe less and now they are crumbling....
I must say i'm glad my SO didn't go through with the proposal...
I've realized there was SO MUCH MORE that I didn't know about him and to accept it would've been premature given all the knowledge I have on him now.....now i'd be MUCH less likely to marry...
Wait until you feel you know him- because 9 times out of 10 you don't know him as well as you think within the first year or so....