Quote From: jenc225I find myself sailing in this same boat!! Glad to know that I am not alone -- my boyfriend/fiance and I have been together for 13 years and he cannot take the next step to marry me either! I have been given beautiful diamonds and asked but he just can't do it. And now it is like a forbidden topic of conversation it has driven a wedge between us to the point that I am now in the process of trying to get my life together to leave him for good. I mean I have supported him for 13 years in the things he has wanted to do career wise and when I want this one thing it just doesn't fall in his radar screen. So, without his knowledge I am preparing to leave - some may say that that isn't fair but neither is stringing me along for 13 years! It's time for me to stand up for me and take care of what I want and to heck with this, I guess if he truly loved me it probably wouldn't be an issue would it?!
Think about this before you respond to social pressure. Do you know that he loves you?
You may be throwing away a good thing. Everyone on here isn't really thinking, they're just reacting...don't do the same. I posted some responses, (I don't know what page they landed on), that I think you should read before "exiting stage right".
