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To say Mr French Bulldog has had some bad roommates would be a gross understatement. I could write a post on each one of them, but that isn’t the point, so I’ll just run by a few of the highlights…
Previous Roommate #1 - Crazy lady who was okay when she took her meds, but when she didn’t, she would have conversations with her cats and couldn’t be trusted with knives. Obviously she was on her meds when he went to look at the place.
Previous Roommate #2 - While Mr Frenchie’s BFF was visiting, and his roommate was at “work”, the repo-man came to repossess RM#2’s stuff.
Previous Roommate #3 - This roommate got jealous of all the time Mr Frenchie was spending with me, and as things between them started to go bad, RM#3 thought it would be a good idea to buy a TUBA and practice it at all hours of the day and night.
Previous Roommate #4 - Completely forgot a conversation about the rent they had had 30 minutes prior. Mr Frenchie had to have the entire conversation again. RM#4 didn’t remember it AT ALL. We’re also fairly certain he was in jail when he said he went to Hawaii for a few weeks. (These are just the highlights, people.)
Previous Roommate #5 - (Or RM#5’s mother) RM#5’s mother subletted her room to Mr Frenchie when she moved in with her boyfriend. Even though she no longer lived in the apartment, she still though it was alright to host dinner parties and Sunday brunches without even warning Mr Frenchie.
Current Roommate (#6) - To be fair, RM#6 is the most normal of the bunch; it was his ex-fiance that was the problem. She’s out of the picture now, hence the “ex”, but that was after the night he came home to find 3 cop cars, 1 fire truck and 1 EMT vehicle parked out front.
Every time I hear a new story about a previous roommate or current roommate (at the time) I tell him, “I promise I won’t do that when we live together.” Some people ask us why we don’t just move in together now, and some of you are probably wondering the same thing as you read this. That is something we both agreed, from the get go, we didn’t want to do until we were married. After all the emergency vehicles and with the wedding getting closer, it is tempting to just move in together, but we’re sticking to our guns. We have nothing against people that live together before they are married; in fact, most of our friends have done it. We just want to leave something for when we’re married.
Have you decided to hold off living together until after you’re married? What are your reasons?
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Whoa. That’s a whole lotta crazy. Has Mr. Frenchie stayed in the same apartment the whole time, and just changed roomies tons?
Wow. I have had 2 crazy roommates in the past, but he seems to have a string of them!!! We didnt wait - we moved in together sooner, though I admire you for having the willpower to wait!
We’re waiting to live together until after the wedding, too. No crazy roomie stories. We’re just a little old-fashioned like that! :o)
That’s a whole ot of crazy?! Where’d he find his roomies?
We’ve practically lived together since our first date. seriously. It works for us though. I’d rather know about my fiances bad/annoying habits prior to marrying him just so I know I can still put up with him 
Since we’ve lived together for about 5 years I like to think the living situation is smooth sailing by now!
Have you guys decided whose place you’re going to designate “ours” as opposed to “mine” yet?
@Miss Bruschetta: No he’s moved a bunch of times. He’s really looking forward to have a place that is “his”(ours).
@MissCamera: I live w/ my parents and Mr Frenchie is renting from someone else, so we’re both moving into a new apt 
We’re not living together until a few months after we get married.
Only because of the Army. And 830 miles between us. Kinda makes it hard to share a place =]
My hubby and I moved in together after the wedding. We started our lease beforehand, in an effort to get stuff moved in, but our first night there was our first night as husband and wife! It was special to share that first night together there, and it’s been fun and exciting to really have our wedding be a life change for us! You’ll love living together, and he’ll greatly appreciate having a “normal” roommate!
(Also, one of my favorite pictures from our wedding was a “roommate” shot of my college roommate and I. We lived together all four years, and when she put the picture on Facebook, she captioned it “One last roommate shot before I pass her along to her new roommate.”)
I am not married nor dating anyone, but that is something I feel strongly about. I just think if you do everything prior to marriage….then what is the point. As a single woman reading these posting are so xciting!
Roomie #5 sounds great! All of those examples is why I never had a roommate and paid a little more just to live alone.
We actually just moved in together after ohhhh 7 years even though I had always stated I would never ever live with my boyfriend before I was married but here I am living in sin with my man. (shacking up as Dr. Laura would say)…I am okay with it all now. I think once I stopped caring about the judgment I might receive from my mother, I realized it wasn’t really a big deal to live with him before marriage. After all we were already having sex (no mom I’m not a virgin after all!). Yes my mom still thinks at age 30 that I’m a virgin.
We’ve been together 8 years and just moved in a couple months ago, right after we got back from honeymoon. Worth the wait! Every night is like a sleepover. We are so grateful now to be able to live together.
We’re waiting to live together primarily for moral reasons–we just dont think it’s right to live together before there is a binding commitment that this is it!
Also the logistics…I work and live in the Chicago area, and he attends school and lives in SoCal. I wasn’t about to pick up and move there, leaving my friends and family behind unless I knew this guy was serious.
Even after over a year of long-distance, and all the struggles that go along with that, I don’t think we’d trade it for living together before marriage for anything! I can’t wait for our first few months of married life and getting used to spending all sorts of time together!
Good for you for waiting!
We’re also waiting to get married before he moves in with me. To be fair, we don’t live in the same city (I’m in NYC, he’s in Baltimore), but he is almost done with his research and could theoretically move up to NYC while he writes his doctoral thesis, but 1) we don’t want to live together before getting married, and 2) he would totally NOT focus on his work if he moved here, so down in Baltimore he stays until our wedding!
We’re also not living together because of the Army - also because we’re both still in college. So I guess it’s really a place in our lives kind of thing. Marriage is coming at a big transition point so it’s just natural to start living together then!
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Mrs. French Bulldog, Orange County
Age and Occupation: 28, Administrative Assistant & Interior Design Student
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 28, Purchasing Analyst
Engagement Date: November 8, 2008
Wedding Date: August 2009
Venue: Bernardo Winery
About Me: I've lived in Atlanta, Dallas and Laguna Niguel; although I've lived in Orange County, CA most my life, I'm a Southerner at heart. I work full time for a Commercial General Contractor (aka my father) and I go to school for Interior Design at night. I love modern design, music, wine, crafting, DMailing, my family, my Westies, and of course, Mr Frenchie! Mr Frenchie and I met 3 years ago on Match.com and have been best friends ever since. I love his "old soul" and how he laughs with his whole body, among many other things. We are planning our summer wedding at the winery near his hometown, just 45 minutes south of Orange County.
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