Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast. I'm your co-host, Christina Dodson. This is an Ask

Dr. Kim segment where people submit their questions for Dr. Kim Kim, and he answers them.

Thanks for listening. Well, today is our very first Ask Dr. Kim podcast, where we're going to be doing

a series of just people coming and asking questions to Dr. Kim, and we're going to be diving into answering their questions. So if you're going to be doing a series of just people coming and asking questions to

Dr. Kim and we're going to be diving into answering their questions. So if you have a question

and you want Dr. Kim to answer it on one of these podcasts, you can email us at info at awesome

marriage.com with Ask Dr. Kim in the subject. And if it's a sensitive question, we will certainly

keep your name and all that anonymous. So just let us know if you want it to be public that it's a sensitive question, we will certainly keep your name and all that

anonymous. So just let us know if you want it to be public that it's you or if you want it to be

anonymous, we're fine with that. So Dr. Kim, the first question that we got in from someone was

how long should engagement be? What a fun question. That is a fun question. You know,

I was thinking about that question. A lot of things

kind of go into that. How long have you been dating, you know, engagements I don't think should be

very long, actually. A lot of times I tell couples, if you've really been dating a couple of years or

close to a couple of years, you know, just how much time is it going to take you to do the things that you want to do before you get married. So maybe six months,

eight months, you know, that would kind of depend on the person. But I think the total time

from someone begins dating to the time they're married, I mean, I've had so much more

positive feedback from couples that do a couple of years, that date, their dating and engagement,

which is pretty much what Nancy and I did.

We dated a year and a half and we're engaged for about six months, and that's worked pretty

well.

So, I mean, I think that timeframe is pretty good.

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