It's About Time

It seems to be every woman's dream to someday have her big wedding day. And in hopes of making that day become a reality, we look for a husband in almost every man we date.

Once the search proves to be overwhelming, we start to settle on someone who is at least able to keep us from feeling lonely, while we take a "break". Then, we get rid of him, and continue dating men who really have a chance of owning our hearts.

I think it's funny how we feel as if we're so in love that we could marry every man we're in a relationship with. I know I'm guilty of saying that I would marry someone who clearly wasn't everything I'd always wanted and fantasized about.

When we meet the ONE, we realize, finally, what people were talking about, when they said, "when you meet him, you'll know", and we wish that everything would take on a fairytale form and happen suddenly...

And when it doesn't, we are left so disappointed. You're so in love; he's so in love; you seem to have fun effortlessly, but your wedding seems so far off. He reassures you that he's committed to you, and that he knows you're the one for him. But where's the solid, diamond proof?

Are we always first to think of marriage? Does he think of marriage at all?

I don't know what it is, but my time has finally come.

My boyfriend of two years has been talking about marriage for a while now, and he took me ring shopping. EXCITING! I fell in love with one, and he purchased it. However, that doesn't mean that we're engaged just yet.

He wants to make it an official engagement so he's still holding onto the ring. Knowing this doesn't help me at all, because I don't know when it's going to happen. And I find myself dressing up, whenever we go out, and making sure that I look nice, sitting around the house.

There is a reason that this is supposed to be a surprise. I also find myself thinking up the perfect times for a proposal. And I get a little disappointed, whenever he doesn't do it at those moments. It also makes me wonder what he has planned and if he has anything planned at all.

I know that patience is a virtue, but I can hardly wait!