Now 28 years later I find out her first name is Always.
LOL!!!!!
Hubby and I dated for almost two years before he popped the question (and no, we didn't live together first--yuck.....)
I mentally had had the "two year rule" in mind: If the guy you're seriously dating can't commit to marriage after two years, that IS your answer--he ISN'T "The One".) I had read a great book called "Call It Love or Call It Quits" and was determined to not be "engaged" (without a ring or a date) for five years, etc.
After proper coaching by hubby's two sisters on the "perfect engagement ring," he proposed. He barely made it under the wire on the "two year rule"--LOL. We've been happy as hogs in mud for seven years now.
What took so long?