Waiting for a proposal - how did you stay sane?!

mel48rose

Ah that's such a lovely story. I wish you both all the luck in the world!!

HeadAboveWater

Aw congratulations!!

And thank you for sharing

citizenkitten

congrats princess kate, hope you have your ring now or maybe it is waiting for you under the christmas tree..:)

citizenkitten

well i have made it 81 pages, you know I have cried, I have laughed and i have wanted to punch all of your OHs on behalf of all of you. But most importantly i have wanted to jump up in joy at the graduates from this thread. if only i could have joined you all from the beginning because what you have all felt is what i have and still do.

Can you believe it that we have a date to get married, got the priest booked and everything, he has told his family and we got the ring and yet I am still not engaged! LOL!

after waiting so long i need you all to help keep me sane!

FBaby

Ha ha, excellent thread, quite funny if not so funny

I'm there with you, well those who have almost agreed a date, but are still waiting for the ring to make it official.... My partner and I have been together almost 4 years and we've talked marriage from the start. This year, we have discussed it more tangibly, going over who we would invite, the type of wedding we wanted and the month (September). There is a bit of an issue around how much to spend (he's done it the full blown way, £20K or so to be cheated on and left a few years later, so understandbly not overly keen on the big due again!), but from my perspective, it seems pointless to discuss it in even more details when we are not even engaged.

There have been 1 bog opportunity for him to pop the question, my birthday last month when for the first time, both my dad and his mum were there... but it didn't happen. Then of course, Christmas coming, and this time, I bypassed the hinting part and provide the straight foward answer to 'what would you like for Christmas', but got the very unromantic response that supposedly (or read conveniently made up) Christmas is not the appropriate time for a proposal.... he is only getting away because the PERFECT opportunity is coming up right afterwards, our 4th year anniversary of our meeting begining of January... I would very much hope that he would pick this rather than Valentine, and well, that he sees that he is running out of time if he really intends for us to be married next September..

Ha men...why is it that they can be so impulsive when it comes to booking a trip away with the boys, but requires such detailed planning (or so they claim) just to pop a simple question!!!

Anyway, I shall be staying here for a while....

wiggychick

My OH came out of a messy breakup and we started dating almost straight away. He always swore that he was never going to get married again.
I had got to the point of accepting that maybe this was how it was always going to be. I'd already learned that hints and pressure have the result of pushing a guy in the opposite direction!
So glad that I didn't give up on him - it was being able to accept him as he was that kept me sane.
He was living in a shared house with a lovely lady who was also divorced, but who had no problem dreaming about getting married again. She told him that she had never given up hope in true love.

He did propose eventually, very romantic. We've now been married nearly three years and they have been the best three years of my life.

Princess_kate

I know it'll be christmas day, I can not wait now! Im bursting to tell my friends but want to be able to tell them "properly" with a ring on my finger!!

My boyfriend went & spoke to my mum last week, to ask for my hand in marriage & will do the same with my dad this week. My half brother got married last saturday so we didn't want our news to take anything way from their special time.

Its pretty surreal. Been so tempted to look for the ring but im pretty sure hes taken it to his mums house until christmas. Cant wait to try it on properly as it was far too small for me. Think i might get my nails done before christmas

Hope lots of you ladies have lovely, sparkly surprises under the tree too!!

xx

heartbreak_star

No sparkly ring-shaped surprise for me. I'm a little bit sad, but I hoped rather than expected so it's not too bad.

I did get a beautiful necklace and various other nice things, so thoroughly spoiled. Fingers crossed for 2013 eh?

HBS x

rdchick

wasn't expecting a ring... didn't get a ring but after everything that has happened the past few months I did get a message yesterday that made me happy - he said 'we have the rest of our lives to be together' yay!

hope everyone is well! xxx

heartbreak_star

Awh RD that's so sweet!

Hope you and all the other forumites had a great Christmas.

HBS x