She Left Her Boyfriend Because He Wouldn’t Marry Her After Already Being Together For Eight Years
This 25-year-old woman began dating her 29-year-old boyfriend, Rick, when she was just 18.
And since then, they have obviously grown and matured a lot as individuals. They also started to plan for a future together and even intended to have kids sometime within the next couple of years.
But she had one firm boundary– they needed to get married before eight years of being together.
“Why? Because if you don’t want to marry someone after being together for that long, then why stay together at all?” she reasoned.
According to her, she and Rick had built a solid life together. Her boyfriend made six figures working in the tech industry and also currently owns a consulting company.
At the same time, she works in marketing and also owns a drop shipping business.
So, in her mind, everything had been going wonderfully.
“But despite being financially-stable, emotionally-developed people, Rick would not marry me,” she revealed.
She asked him about the topic for months on end, wondering if she had done something to make him not want to tie the knot with her. She also questioned whether Rick found her unattractive all of a sudden.
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Still, Rick did not give her a good answer. He just claimed that she had done nothing wrong and that he wasn’t ready to get married just yet.
During those conversations, she made sure to remind Rick about her boundary. And he claimed that he was well aware.
Nonetheless, last month was her birthday, and she turned 25. But she still was not married.
That’s why she made the difficult decision of just leaving her boyfriend– because apparently, Rick just tried to “pretend” that her birthday was a happy day.
“And pretended to be confused on why I was upset,” she added.
She has since started going to therapy to better understand this whole situation. But, she is still trying to figure out how to move forward and get over this guy– who she believes just strung her along and wasted some of the prime years of her life.
Can you understand why she wanted to get married after being together for so long? At the same time, do you agree that the “best years of her life” have been wasted? Or has her life still barely begun? Would you have chosen to break up with your partner also if you were in her shoes?
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