Love is trust, it is knowing your partner. Love is building days, hours, weeks, months and years on top of each other until you can look upon your relationship and feel truly appreciated, validated, and treasured.

There are listeners, and then there are speakers.

He can start by opening the bottle, from which liquid happiness shall then pour into his cheery plump gut.

As long as it takes to form that kind of relationship. You can't just say "well, we've been together for 6 months, now's the time to be serious".

My personal "relationship flowchart" looks something like this:

Friends -> Dating -> Love/Romance -> Partners -> Relationship -> Engaged -> Marriage.

And it ranges from person to person. It's entirely possible to skip one of those steps, or to have love/romance before friends or dating. Most of the time (obviously) a relationship stops somewhere in the first two steps.

But really, the simple answer for you is to find out if you're both interested in that level of commitment. It could be 2 dates it could be 6 months!

Good luck!