[IluvLucy]

My husband and I dated 7 years before we married. He had never been married and I had just come out of 8 years of hell in a really bad marriage. We enjoyed the same things, maintained separate households, got engaged at 5 years and were married at 7 years. We were married 13 WONDERFUL years before he died. The 7 years just cemented everything we had together.

We both knew we would get married eventually, but we also communicated that fact to each other. It was just a matter of when BOTH of us were ready. I think you need to bring it up and test the waters. You're too young to tie yourself down to someone who may NEVER want to be married at all.