The INSIDER Summary:
- Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth are engaged, but that doesn't mean they're planning a wedding.
- Cyrus said she's too young to plan a wedding, but she and Hemsworth are happy.
- She said that their separation helped them grow stronger.
- Her ideas about a long engagement make total sense.
Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth have done a pretty good job at keeping us guessing about their relationship status over the years.
They've gotten engaged, broken up several times, spent years apart, only to reveal that they're engaged again. But just because Cyrus,24, is rocking her engagement ring that Hemsworth, 27, gave her in 2012 does not mean that she's in wedding planning mode.
She told The Sun on Sunday newspaper in the UK that she just doesn't see herself getting married anytime soon.
'I don't envision marriage," she told them, according to the Daily Mail. "I'm 24. I hope I get to live a little bit more. I have too much living to do [before I get married]."
Cyrus and Hemsworth have both been open about how they feel like their years-long breakup allowed them to have a healthy relationship now. She told the paper that getting back together with Hemsworth helped her find who she truly is.
'I'm just riding this out," she told them. "In some relationships, you lose yourself by being with someone else. Actually, it made me find myself more."
But that doesn't mean she's not surprised at times by their reconciliation.
"Three years ago, if you'd asked me if I'd be here, this happy with this man, I'd have been stunned," she told The Sun.
Because of their rocky history and their ages, their decision to hold off wedding planning makes sense. They live together and are clearly committed to each other, so if marriage isn't something that they want right now, it's smart to wait.
Long engagements get a bad rap as some people may see it as trouble in paradise, lack of certainty or disorganization. There's this idea that the second couples get engaged they have to jump to start planning their wedding.
While the average engagement is about 14.5 months, according to The Knot, many couples choose to hold off for a myriad of reasons. For some, a wedding is something they'll have to save up for. For others, an engagement ring is a commitment in itself and they aren't in any rush to go further. And sometimes, life just gets in the way and that wedding planning gets shelved for kids or work or life.
Every couple is different, which means engagement length is going to be different for everyone involved. The more couples like Cyrus and Hemsworth make the decisions that are right for them, the happier they'll be. But that doesn't mean that Cyrus is ruling a wedding out completely.
"I have no idea what the next three years will bring, but if it's possible to get even happier, I'll take it," she said.
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