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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
When are you not a newlywed anymore?
So I'm an old hag now... almost at 3 1/2 years into this "marriage" thing. I'm not a BRAND SPANKING NEW bride, but still think my marriage is pretty new.
Maybe cause DH and I lived together before marriage? I mean, we still have bumps in the road, but we've got friends that have been married less than us and working on their first divorce. I'm kinda sad for them. And it's awkward too since we all run in the same social circles. ...got off topic there, but had to vent.
Re: When are you not a newlywed anymore?
We're about a year and a half in. I don't feel like a newlywed at all. But our first year of marriage just flew by. We got KU two months after our wedding and then bought a new house seven months after the wedding. We were just so busy all the time, we never really had a "newlywed" period.
Although, we did move in together 2 years before we got married and I remember feeling like a newlywed then.
I'm with tawillers -- it was way more exciting when we first moved in together than after the wedding. DH and I are going on our 6th year together (in May!) and while we've only been married for 2.5, we've been living together 5 so it didn't really seem "new".
We also had a lot of other firsts in our first year that kind of took away from focusing on just the two of us -- I was still in college when we got married so we didn't even take a honeymoon. It was supposed to just be put on hold, but then we got pregnant, bought a house, etc and the plan just kept getting pushed further down the priority list.
Meh - for me the newlywed period seems to reference a period when you're so blissfully happy you overlook the realities of your marriage -- I'm a realist so it doesn't really suprise me that we never spent too much time in that state of mind.
omg I agree. We moved in together in November 2006, married in June 2008, and didn't get a bigger bed until November 2008. It was rough. I love our new bed.