The Bert Show.

Some of you guys really hate this idea.

I brought it up a decade ago of a line in the sand day.

Some of you just hate this, that if you're with a dude or you're with a woman and you guys have been with each other for a certain amount of time, you have made it clear that marriage is a priority for you.

That is a major part of this whole thing, that I want to be

married to you. It's important to be in the institution of marriage. And they drag their feet,

and they drag their feet, and they drag their feet. And here you are frustrated and frustrated,

rather than give them a verbal ultimatum, which really messes you up, because then you wonder,

would he ever have

proposed to me if I wouldn't have said that I'm going to walk out the door? So you have a mental

line in the sand day, whatever that day is for you. Look, if he doesn't propose by March 5th, I am

absolutely out of here and you can't go back on it. Which is different than an ultimatum because an

ultimatum, you have to verbalize. Like you actually tell them, hey, if you can't go back on it. Which is different than an ultimatum because an ultimatum you have to verbalize.

Like you actually tell them, hey, if you don't propose by X date, I'm walking out that door,

which I had a friend do and 17 years later, they're still happily married with three kids.

Is that right?

Really?

I will never forget.

She was like, if you don't propose by the end of the year, I'm out. He proposed.

They got married. Three kids later. They're still very happy. Was it December 31st at 11.57?

All right. Fine. He snuck it in under the wire, baby.

And my motivation for this is I've known too many women in my life that date guys six, seven,

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