So he made the committment. Congratulations on beating the odds and may you have many, many more happy years together
Well, we didn't move in together until we were comfortable enough to both acknowledge we were moving in the direction of marriage (and no, I didn't make it an ultimatum; we both had to think seriously about "making the commitment"). I don't think either of us would have wanted it as a casual, open-ended arrangement. We moved in together in June of '85, were engaged at Thanksgiving, and married in September of '86. Thanks for your good wishes.
~They~ made the commitment John ;~D
Beyond that, I share your warm wishes for Linda's continued happy marriage.
My own situation is similar to Linda's in the basics. I too cohabitated with my husband (and still do, I guess ;~D) and we both expected marriage to come from it. I met my husband online when we lived 4 states apart. (Big western states apart, not those little NEastern states ;~D)
After getting to know each other online and then in person on expensive trips, it made more sense to us to move in together rather than have him try to move, find employment and set up another whole household. We were definately sure we would marry, and also very much needing to be sure that this relationship in person was as compatible as we thought it would be online. It was. :~D We're both mature adults, we were married the following summer, waiting that long mostly because we needed to accommodate the schedules of family for the wedding.
It's not the way everyone I know would do it. But it made sense to us. Life and love in a free country. And it doesn't usually hurt to go slow in involving the lawyers. ;~D