I can remember waiting for what seemed like forever. I had been dating my boyfriend for about 2 years. I was 27.
Not exactly old, but I wasn’t getting younger and I wanted to move on with my life and start a family. I knew he was the one, and I was simply waiting for him to finally come out and pop the big question one day.
We had been together for a long time at this point. I didn’t know what was holding him back and I honestly started to wonder if he was having doubts about it all.
At this point, I started to bother him about it here and there, dropping hints wherever I could. This was completely unnecessary, as he was just about ready to drop the question on me anyway. I didn’t know this though.
It was still a surprise nonetheless. We ended up getting engaged very shortly after this all, as he popped the big question while we were away for a weekend together. I was thrilled.
What if he hadn’t proposed to me then? Would waiting another six months or a year or two have been too long? When is it all enough when it comes to patiently waiting it out?
There’s no real answer to this question, as much as I’d like to say that there is one. It really varies by couple and you’ll have to take a good hard look at your relationship to determine the answer to that.
Still, you definitely have a right to ask. You’re not involved with him just for the sake of wasting your time, and you want to make sure that you’re both of the same mindset when it comes to these things.
Fast forward three years later now. I’m now happily married with a child, and blog about the Little Tikes kitchen and the Little Tikes Cookin’ Fun Interactive Kitchen.