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Now, today's first story comes from Blue Ams and says boyfriend doesn't want to propose after

eight years, but says he will go to the courthouse tomorrow.

I am a 30 female, and I've been with my 39 male boyfriend for eight years.

I do not want kids and he supports this, but I would

like to be married soon. We've been open with each other about wanting to get married since day one

and we've lived together for four and a half years. At the four year mark, I brought up getting

engaged and he said it wasn't the right time because once engaged

he wants us to be married within a year. However, he felt like things were too busy with work,

etc. Then the next year I brought it up again and same thing. Year after that we were talking

about rings and I showed him the $1,500 ring I wanted on Etsy. He liked the design and I sent him the link, but I didn't send the timeline or anything.

But he seemed hesitant and said he wanted a perfect proposal.

I told him it didn't need to be an extravagant proposal and could be very simple.

Last year I brought up this topic again, and he said the proposal was too much pressure

and would rather skip ahead to the wedding. So even though I didn't completely understand his hang-up,

he's a very confident and non-anxious man. I started looking at wedding venues and getting excited.

Then he shut it down and said it was too much and to ask him in six months.

I waited 12 months because he got injured around the sixth month mark. Lately, he's been having

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