My Prosperous World

As a single girl, I saw many of my friends getting married as I hit my mid 20s. I was with my boyfriend so it wasn’t as if I was all alone, but I still envied them for the stages of their lives they were getting ready to enter.

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.

It had been two years and he still hadn’t proposed. It seemed like this was the time where it was supposed to happen, and I really had no idea when it would be. I didn’t want to waste my time.

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 just several weeks later when it asked me to marry him. It was a warm Saturday afternoon and I can honestly say that I was totally shocked. I didn’t see it coming whatsoever.

This begs the question, when should he propose? Was 2 years and a few months too long, or should people wait this long to really figure things out? Does age play any kind of a hand in determining the answer to that question?

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.

Skip ahead three years later. I’m now happily married with a child, and write about the little tikes kitchen and the little tikes cookin fun interactive kitchen.