After Dating for 6 Months, Is it too Early to give your significant other THE key to your house?

[corbe]

   She gave me a rare Japanese cut of my Favorite Artist, Todd Snider.  I was dumbstruck (and stoned), so I reached into my empty pocket and lo and behold all I had was my house key. 

 
   I'm glad my pockets are too small to carry drawers and closet space for all 'her' accessories.

@Texas Robin

[roamer_1]

It's a moot point @corbe ...

If you're like me, she's been doing the step and fetch with your wallet in hand, and the laundry (cleaning out your pockets), not to mention cleaning up the place... She has had ample opportunity to get keys made since early on. So your giving her a key is more symbolic than anything else.

If she's been there 6 months your belly won't let you give her up anyhow.

But I DID check the doggie door option, because it is an important attribute in case y'all get locked out... Lord knows I ain't fitting through the dog door, which leaves but one option. 

Congratulations. 

[roamer_1]

Which brings another subject to mind... Any woman can walk in anywhere with any man's credit card and have her way with it. But it don't work the other way around. Figgers.

[libertybele]

I didn't vote for either one. If she can't fit through the doggie door there's always the bathroom window.

[roamer_1]

I didn't vote for either one. If she can't fit through the doggie door there's always the bathroom window.

The last time I got locked out I had to kick the door in. There goes three hundred bucks.
Then I remembered I could pick the lock... and my picks were in the truck.
Then I remembered there's a master set of keys for my place down at the ranch.
Sh*t. That's what happens when you ain't got a woman.

[corbe]

    I never gave my last one a key and she lived here off/on for 10 years.  Granted when she was doing meth she could fit through my Doggie door.  Robin is much more financially off as I am.
    Besides, it's one of those locks that are easy to rekey anyway, if things go sideways, which I doubt.
    Robin has a lot to do with keeping me grounded, Good Women.


    Yes, I voted the prostitution thing, too.

[libertybele]

The last time I got locked out I had to kick the door in. There goes three hundred bucks.
Then I remembered I could pick the lock... and my picks were in the truck.
Then I remembered there's a master set of keys for my place down at the ranch.
Sh*t. That's what happens when you ain't got a woman.

My best friend and I went out to the bar and when we left the bar I discovered that I locked my keys in the car...so...I had to call my boyfriend (now husband) that I just started dating at 2 a.m. in the morning to come rescue me....I knew he was handy with picks.  It was a tad tricky as there was a cop sitting across the street. All ended well though. We laugh now but it wasn't funny then.

[roamer_1]

My best friend and I went out to the bar and when we left the bar I discovered that I locked my keys in the car...so...I had to call my boyfriend (now husband) that I just started dating at 2 a.m. in the morning to come rescue me....I knew he was handy with picks.  It was a tad tricky as there was a cop sitting across the street. All ended well though. We laugh now but it wasn't funny then.

Locks only keep honest people honest... Really. 

[roamer_1]

Kinda like passwords... 

[thackney]

My girlfriend (now wife) and I had been on about 10 dates when I gave her a cashier's check and power of attorney to buy a house for cash.  I had been trying to get the deal closed before I returned to working overseas and they could not make it happen fast enough.

Granted, a couple of those dates lasted nearly a week each.

We had been friends for a couple of years but our courtship was mostly by mail the preceding 9 months or so.

[libertybele]

My girlfriend (now wife) and I had been on about 10 dates when I gave her a cashier's check and power of attorney to buy a house for cash.  I had been trying to get the deal closed before I returned to working overseas and they could not make it happen fast enough.

Granted, a couple of those dates lasted nearly a week each.

We had been friends for a couple of years but our courtship was mostly by mail the preceding 9 months or so.

I say you more or less gave her the keys to the whole kingdom. Glad it worked out for you.

[roamer_1]

My girlfriend (now wife) and I had been on about 10 dates when I gave her a cashier's check and power of attorney to buy a house for cash.  I had been trying to get the deal closed before I returned to working overseas and they could not make it happen fast enough.

Granted, a couple of those dates lasted nearly a week each.

We had been friends for a couple of years but our courtship was mostly by mail the preceding 9 months or so.

If she's the sort to calmly move into the traces and start pulling some load, you're more or less obliged to let her. It is just a matter of efficiency. She cannot represent you, or your household, without the tools to do so... so at least with me, that normalization comes quickly.

[thackney]

If she's the sort to calmly move into the traces and start pulling some load, you're more or less obliged to let her. It is just a matter of efficiency. She cannot represent you, or your household, without the tools to do so... so at least with me, that normalization comes quickly.

 

[libertybele]

Locks only keep honest people honest... Really. 

This is very true.  No illegal activity anyways; always to aid and assist.   

[Wingnut]

Cash, Grass, or Ass ,no one gets a key for free.

[libertybele]

Cash, Grass, or Ass ,no one gets a key for free.

Definitely no love in the air?

[Wingnut]

Definitely no love in the air?

"What's Love Got to do with it?"

-Ike Turner

 

[Cyber Liberty]

"What's Love Got to do with it?"

-Ike Turner

 

Was that before or after he kicked Tina's azz?

[libertybele]

Was that before or after he kicked Tina's azz?

I saw a documentary on the brutality he inflicted upon her.

After living through Ike's “torture” for 16 years (as she described it to People in '81), Turner (then 37) divorced the musician in 1976. Their divorce was finalized in 1978, but she got close to nothing from it. All she got was two cars and the rights to her stage name.

She made it on her own; she didn't need a key.  Her estimated net worth is $250 million!  They were both inducted into the Hall of Fame but Ike was serving 18 mos for drug possession and couldn't attend. Later,  she did not attend his funeral; good for her.                                                       

[Hoodat]

I didn't vote for either one. If she can't fit through the doggie door there's always the bathroom window.

Protected by a silver-spoon
But now she sucks her thumb and wanders
By the banks of her own lagoon

[jmyrlefuller]

Your guess is as good as mine, if not better.

[roamer_1]

This is very true.  No illegal activity anyways; always to aid and assist.   

That is kinda my normal, though I do admit to having a bit of trouble staying inside the lines from time to time... 

[libertybele]

Protected by a silver-spoon
But now she sucks her thumb and wanders
By the banks of her own lagoon

Didn't anybody tell her?
Didn't anybody see?
Sunday's on the phone to Monday
Tuesday's on the phone to me

[corbe]

   Crap, I'm stoned.  I actually had to look that up.

[GtHawk]

Really a tough one for me to answer, never reached a six month level of dating per say. I got engaged to my wife of 45 years after four months of dating and she was only the third girl I ever dated  not sure that even counts because I told her I was going to put a ring on her finger first time we went out. That's what happens from being 19 and stupid.