Her Boyfriend Gave Her The Engagement Ring She Wanted As A Birthday Gift, But When She Asked Him If He Was Proposing, He Said He’s Not Ready For Marriage
This 25-year-old woman has a boyfriend who is 30, and they have been dating for the last 4 years after originally meeting through their college.
She says their relationship is great overall, and they both have completed school recently. She just graduated with her bachelor’s degree, and he just completed grad school.
Since school is behind them, she really has been adamant about them getting married sometime soon.
Whenever she does try to discuss marriage with her boyfriend, he replies that he needs some “more time” before thinking of proposing to her.
She initially began talking about getting married about a year ago, and she currently is growing more and more agitated with her boyfriend over this topic.
“2 months ago, I sent him a link to an engagement ring I thought was very pretty and asked him what he thought,” she explained.
“It was a link to an Etsy jewelry shop and had engagement ring in the title, so it clearly was an engagement ring.”
“He said it was nice and then messaged me about something else, which upset me, but I figured I’d just bring it up some other time.”
A week ago, she celebrated her birthday, and her boyfriend purchased a present for her. As she opened it, it dawned on her that it was the exact engagement ring she had shown to her boyfriend earlier.
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She then asked her boyfriend if he was proposing to her, and he just said that he wasn’t before questioning her about why she figured he was asking her to marry him.
He pointed out that the ring was simply her birthday gift because she had mentioned liking that specific ring.
She reminded her boyfriend that it wasn’t just any ring, it was an engagement ring, and she had shown it to him with the hopes of him prosing to her with it.
Her boyfriend insisted she should have made that clear to him before revealing that he would never buy her a ring “that cheap” if he planned on proposing.
The worst part was he concluded their conversation by expressing that he simply was not ready to get married anytime soon.
“We ended up getting into a huge fight over this, which resulted in him leaving our apartment for a few days to stay with friends,” she said.
“I’ve been alone at our apartment and don’t know what to do. I just don’t understand what I’m doing wrong here. I thought the engagement ring was a pretty clear sign of what I wanted. Like, how do you look at that and think I would want it as a birthday gift?”
“Do I have a right to be upset? Should I keep pushing the proposal to him? What do I do with a ring that I wanted for a proposal, not as a birthday gift?”
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