I have just celebrated 12 years of marriage to my present husband on August the 4th, we lived together only a few months before we married, and to be honest our first year was the hardest, we were both older 34, and set in our way's, but as each year rolled on we were still getting to know one another, even now there are always new things to learn about one another.

I don't think living together takes the excitement out of it completely, and well for me personally I would rather know a little about that person's good and bad habits before I tied the knot.

Just speaking from personal experience here, but let's face it there are no guarantees with marriage either way.

This is my second go at it ,so I wanted to get it right this time.