She Came Home To Her Front Door Wide Open And Called The Cops, Destroying Her Boyfriend’s Proposal
After only two weeks of dating, this 27-year-old woman and her 29-year-old boyfriend moved in together.
From there, they adopted some cats and a dog, got a joint bank account, smushed their friends together into one group, and got to meet one another’s families.
It’s been seven years since they got together, and she says their time together has been incredible. She’s truly elated to be with her boyfriend.
She’s never been the kind of girl who dreamed of a wedding. She never wanted an engagement ring, or a fancy wedding, or anything like that.
She already feels deeply connected to her boyfriend in a way that doesn’t need to be validated through some paperwork saying they’re married.
“That isn’t to say I’m against marriage because I’m not,” she explained. “But getting a ring on my finger is not a priority for me.”
“When I have thought about it, I imagine a small wedding with our parents, maybe our siblings, and the officiant. Barefoot on the beach.”
“No fuss, nothing elaborate, something simple that we could throw together ourselves. Then off to a place we could relax, eat, and drink without the formalities. If I had a dream wedding, it would be that or something similar.”
Let’s rewind to July: her boyfriend was acting completely strange, and she could tell that he was trying to keep a secret from her, which he’s terrible at.
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She wasn’t concerned, though, as she figured he was planning something like a getaway for the weekend or something along those lines.
Then, one evening recently, she came home from work and didn’t see her boyfriend’s car in the driveway.
Their house had no lights on, and her front door was open. For the next couple of minutes, she stood there watching what was going on.
She couldn’t see any movement going on in her home, so she called her boyfriend four times in a row, but he didn’t pick up.
“That wasn’t like him. One missed call? Sure. Four missed calls? No. So I called the cops,” she added.
“I was still on the phone with emergency services when they arrived. They came over to me, I gave them a run down on what I knew, which was nothing, and they went into the house. A few minutes later, one of them came out and asked me to go in with them.”
“They lead me through the house to the back patio. I had flipped the lights on as I entered and saw that a trail of rose petals took us right out the back, where my boyfriend, wearing a tux and handcuffs, was sitting at our patio table that was set beautifully for dinner.”
Needless to say, her boyfriend’s proposal was destroyed. Seven weeks have elapsed since, and things between them are hardly going well.
She truly thought that perhaps she was in danger, but her boyfriend maintains she phoned up the police in order to get out of the proposal.
Her boyfriend genuinely believes that she has no interest in marrying him and created a scenario to ensure she would never have to say yes.
They have only ever talked about getting married once in the past, and it was a brief conversation. She’s not sure how that means she should have known six years later her boyfriend would be willing to pop the question.
“I know I hurt him, and I’ve apologized for doing so,” she continued. “He refuses to see how it came about that I called the cops. He went to his parents that night because he was upset, then came home an hour later because they thought it was hilarious.”
“Everyone he tells thinks it’s funny. He is the one telling people. Before this post, I had not said anything to anyone because I know it upsets him. I don’t know what else to do. He doesn’t believe me that it was a huge misunderstanding. Am I missing something?”
“Did I break trust or harm him in some way that I’m just not getting? How do I approach this so I can fix it? At this point, I’m thinking of proposing to him so we can move on from this.”
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