I found this article on MSN by Karen Salmonsohn and it was funny and thought provoking at the same time.
I swear to god I never noticed anything about weddings or relationships before and now there are just signs hanging everywhere as if everyone freaking knows I'm getting married and a little freaked out about it. I've never lived with anyone, well 2 years with my brother but that doesn't count and H and I are actually doing the old fashioned thing, moving in together after we get married so I'm petrified to say the least about what it's going to be like.
This article was interesting and I tried to answer some of the questions myself. Some answers were clear, others not so much.
Throughout the ages, there’s been one question that has consistently stumped even the wisest of prophets and gurus: “How do you know when it’s love... and how do you know when you should dump the chump?” I say: Don’t waste precious time-ticking-time with the wrong partner!
Here’s a list of relationship-clarifying questions to better serve daters who are newly head-over-heels... so you can suss out sooner versus later if you’ve found the love of your life—or if you should run for your life!
1. Good looks fade. But a bad personality is forever. If you took away the physical attraction and hot sex, would you still want to be friends with this person?
I think above and beyond all the things that bind us H and I have strong core values. We want the same things out of life, the same outlook about money, family, politics (well ok maybe not so much 
) but we have a base in common, something that I've never had with anyone else. Our foundation is solid and to me that is more attractive than the hot sex or anything else.
2. Does your new partner tell you outright that he or she is not ready to be in a serious relationship? If so, listen up! What you hear is what you get!
Actually H was the first guy who told me right away that he wanted to get serious. In fact I knew right away but was a little gunshy in the beginning. He wanted to be with me forever right from the get go and not once did he say he needed to think about something or needed space or any such gag inducing man rejections.
3. You need at least one VERY to fall in love. For example, it helps if your honey is VERY smart, or VERY good-looking, VERY caring or VERY funny, etc. Basically, you need to see at least one magical, heart-fluttering quality about this person that makes him or her stand out for true love to spring forth. Does your partner have at least one VERY special thing which makes you all a-flutter?
He's very good to me. Plain and simple. I have never been with someone that made me feel this way. I'm not talking about romance or making my heart flutter but the way he makes me feel when we are together, whether we are alone or in a crowd is something I can't compare to anything else. He truly makes me feel loved and secure and above and beyond everything, important.
4. Although finding one VERY in your partner is VERY GOOD, finding two VERY aspects can be VERY BAD. For example, if your partner is VERY, VERY GOOD-LOOKING... or VERY, VERY RICH or VERY, VERY FUNNY, this person might be trouble—might have a super-huge ego or be super-annoying due to an extra dosage of that quality. Does your partner have any doubly VERY aspects that you see as being potential relationship-zappers?
OK H is neither very very good looking or very very rich or very very funny but I can't tell what else he's very very of. He can be very very nice sometimes and get on my nerves when he bends over backwards for any Tom Dick and Harry because its something that comes naturally to him. He always always helps people and sometimes it's not always a very good thing.
5. It’s good for your new partner to have a lot of get up and go—but not directly after sex. After NC-17 encounters, does your partner disappear ASAP? If so, your sweetie might have anxiety around intimacy—so be forewarned!
Negatory there. No issues with intimacy with us never had ever.
6. It’s a positive if your “newbie partner” wants to talk after sex—but not if he or she winds up talking about an ex. In fact, too much talk about an ex in general is a negative sign that your partner still has his or her feet stuck in the sticky-icky past, and might thereby have a hard time moving forward!
Negatory there as well. No issues with exes. In fact we are friends with our ex's and with each other's ex's and their spouses.
7. Lust and love are as different as night and day. If your partner only wants to see you in the wee hours of night, it’s lust. If this person wants to spend the more precious daylight hours on weekends with you, you’re heading towards the real-deal love, baby!
Obviously I'm marrying the boy 
I knew it was special when I could be sans makeup sans hair done and sans sexy clothing around him and still get that "look" in his eye and manage to distract him.
8. If your new partner complains about how all exes have been CRAZY, you should wonder what your honey did to make them crazy—or if your amour is a Drama Queen or Drama King.
Actually he has one crazy ex hehehe but it's all good, I had one insanely crazy ex too. I mean thank god we didn't end up with them, doh!
9. Does your newbie partner comment on your tales of woe (and the world’s awful news stories) with a sense of empathy and awareness—or is he or she missing, as Jennifer Aniston so pithily called it, “the sensitivity chip”?
I think I have to say that this is one thing H is truly good about and not just with me because I'm his significant other but he's truly empathic and kind towards anyone with a tale of woe. He'll always listen and always be understanding and always say all the right things to make me feel like he's listening (even if he's not)
10. Does being with your sweetie bring out your favorite self, or your most bummed-out self, or most insecure/neurotic/truly CRAZY-in-love self? Because before you get on the road to wedding-ville, you want to make sure the person you’re hooking up with gives you that extra lift... that’s the way you want to be heading into your forever future!
I've been told he brings out my mellow. I'm not sure who I am around him but I'm calm and not my usual insane self and apparently everyone likes the new me. He has a very calming effect on me and anyone that knows me personally can vouch for how massive that quality alone is.
Of course it's barely been 7 months since we've been together and we are still getting to know each other and there are things about him that I find out every day and I'm sure he'll say the same. All I can say is that I'm insanely in love with him and looking forward to getting married (and scared at the same time) and our life together.
13 days and counting!!
