I will leave this here, I cannot wait to be a father. I believe it takes knowing each other for at least 12-14 months to have a successful marriage, so I can wait, and I am fervently skeptical of everything up until that point, but I am excited for the opportunity of marriage if God grants it to me.
I have a cat who I affectionately call son, he is the best behaved cat I have ever seen, and I love him so much. I can't wait to see what it'll be like when I have my own sons. My daughters, sticking to the topic of the post, I love so much that they will never see the dim interior lights of a post-secondary school ever. Yay, I can send my daughter to school so she can learn to program. That is backwards, she will be in the kitchen with her mother learning from her, and in the garden caring for flowers. Children are incredible, I can talk about children all day.
I think courtship should be 1 year MAX. My parents got married within 2 months but their marriage is only successful in the worldly sense as only my father became traditional in recent years and their children... NO or no religion.
It really doesn't take long to know someone, just discuss important topics and see how they behave.