Doesn't feel any different...

I've wondered about this a lot - I feel like after so much build up and anticipation of the actual wedding, coming home from the honeymoon will feel so strange. I haven't gone through it yet, but I think it probably feels a little bit different with time. Married friends of ours have told us that you start to notice things as time goes on. Just enjoy it!

It doesn't... except now, I get to say that everything is mine too since I have his last name... ha!

Only thing that changed was my last name. We were already living together and had a baby.

I'm just glad I'm not the only one. there are times I think "Holy crap we're married" and its just because nothing feels different!

It felt different a little for me. I definitely had a few *OMG I'M TRAPPED WITH THIS PERSON DO I REALLY KNOW HIM* moments. But in the end, he's exactly the same person I've dated for 7 years.

I'm not married yet but I'm pretty sure nothing will change with us. We've lived together almost our entire relationship, 5 and a half years, and once we get married I'm pretty sure that we will still be eating dinner at the coffee table and using mix-matched sheets on our bed. lol

I agree. it doesn't really feel different... but it's cool. i can now really call him my husband and he can call me his wife. and i feel like i have more pull with "this is josh's wife" when i'm talking to people on the phone about accounts that aren't in my name. lol.

we were also living together before being married and our finances were already combined.

The biggest difference for me was, since DH and I dated for ten years before getting married, I was very proud of that. Well, once we got married I felt like, unless we make it to 'till death do us part' I can't be so proud of us as a couple, and that's (hopefully) a long way off! For me that was the only big difference. Oh, and it hit me one day-- if DH got sick or died, I couldn't just expect my MIL to step in and take care of everything. I don't know if I would have while we were dating-- it never crossed my mind-- but once we were married, that would be My Job.

It didn't really feel different for me. People at work keep asking me how married life is, and my response is always, "the same as before we were married." We lived together for 5 years prior to getting married, so..... nope, no different. Except during tax season.

I was worried about it, but it hasn't been the case. You've only been married a few weeks. It may take longer for it to sink in. The meaning and significance behind your vows may take time to process. We are more deeply connected and committed then ever before.

It was very different for us (in a wonderful way), but we didn't live together before we were married and a lot changed for us.

My husband moved in with me a month before the wedding because of a few different reasons - he had actually moved away for work (pilot) for about 6 months while engaged and because of that, had moved out of him and his roommate’s place. He finished his hours down in FL about a month before we got married and honestly, after nearly seven years together and living apart that whole time, I didn’t have an issue with it. Did anything really change? No. Because we had been together so long, even living apart, we knew who each other were. The real difference is just the mindset. This is your person. You are loyal, you should tell them everything. Etc and so on.


Oh. And if you’re a gal, you have to change every single legal document you’ve ever made 🤦🏻‍♀️