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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, 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 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 say that I'm going to walk out the door. So you have a mental line in the

saying 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 don't propose by X date, I'm walking out that door.

Which I had a friend do, 17 years later they're still happily

married with three kids. Is that right? Yes, she talked. 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 1157?

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, eight years, 25 to 32 years old,

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