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My own personal milestones before dating is to get to know the person first, be friends with your crush. There were some past crushes where I was glad I did not ask them out within the first week of knowing them. There's nothing wrong with being friends first, as well as there's no such thing like "nice-guy syndrome." Meet the parents early on in the relationship, to let your partner know that you're serious about him/her before being serious enough to sleep together in bed. Again, this is my own personal milestones.


For marriage, I'm kind of iffy about living together before marriage with more or less the same opinion about it as Lugez. That seems to be a common reason for breaking-up or taking breaks from the relationship when a couple who are dating move in together. Although my parents were able to move in together after 1 year of dating and living with each other for 6 years before getting married(with only having had to break-up once, for like a day), I don't believe I'd feel comfortable doing so before marriage. You don't have to be living with someone to find out how their living habits are; as you are dating, or just a few visits to their place of stay and perhaps spending the night, or noticing how they spend their money, etc.

Sex before marriage? It would really depend on who I'm with. If I'd be having sex with someone, chances are I'm not really into dating them but rather for a fling. If I'm to date someone, I'd be pretty serious about wanting to wait until marriage.