AIBU or is this the most romantic proposal ever! (Not)

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Background: we've discussed marriage and all that. Dp had a proposal planned but we've been struggling a bit with adapting to life as parents so I said for him not to ask.

Cue today. Ds isn't well, he's been feeding on and off all day and hasn't slept at all. Dp came home early from work to take over and managed to get him to take some expressed milk and fall asleep, yay

I got a bath while Dp was settling Ds and when I got out he said he'd go get us a McD's, so we could eat and rest before Ds woke again. Not really sure what came over me but I burst into tears and in the midst of comforting me he said "god I love you so fucking much, please marry me". Stood in the kitchen, me with wet hair and wearing one of his t-shirts and not in a cute rom com way, I look a mess.
I mean it's romance novel stuff right? (If I say yes).

Aww congratulations that sounds like the perfect proposal to me. You definitely have a keeper there.
Dh proposed to me the day after my friends 21st birthday. I was hung over, we'd spent all day snuggled on the sofa watching films and chilling, mum popped round to drop something off, we were sat chatting when DH came in and got on my knee and asked me to marry him. Apparently he was going to do it the night before but it didn't feel right. He told me it just felt right doing it right then and with the one other person (at that time in my life) who meant the most to me. We've been together 14 years and married 11.
Romance comes in alsorts of shapes and sizes and isn't always about the 'big' gestures, it's about the moments in life x

That's about the best type of proposal. In the moment, from the heart. Not some kind of social media driven grand gesture done for the likes.

Congratulations!

That is far, far more romantic than red roses/champagne/cliche stuff! Congratulations! 🍔🍟

I think that's actually an extremely romantic proposal. He wants you when you're crying and had a shit day and you're in the trenches of parenting together. Congratulations!

He's a keeper! Snap him up.

That is VERY romantic!
He meant it. It wasn’t a floor show, it was real.

So so lovely. Congratulations. Xx

Well, I would marry him!
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(If I wasn’t already married to lovely, similar DH)

Feel all warm and fuzzy OP! How lovely

Also...what a GREAT proposal story for future retelling!

Mine is “I asked your Dad to marry me in the middle of the night in a field under a hedge, he said yes”

Aww that's so sweet!

But what do you mean 'Before I decide'?

Do you not want to marry him?

I think it is absolutely beautiful. Congratulations

What a lovely heartwarming thread!! :-)

Oh for God's sake, that's the best sort of proposal.

Get on with it and marry him soon. It's about a marriage, not a wedding.

My proposal was similar, we had an argument earlier in the day, I was a bit overwhelmed later that night and started crying about how I couldn't have kids, he promised I'd have everything I want, I said no I won't how can I, he came back with a ring and asked me to marry him. And I did end up having my baby in the end too

So he asks you while you are in a natural, at home, comfortable state? Yes actually that is romantic.

I think it's a perfect, utterly romantic proposal.
I can't bear all the rehearsed, heavily staged proposals that pop up on my Facebook. Nothing romantic about taking a zillion photos and obsessing about it being 'perfect'
Congratulations

I think it’s lovely, congratulations!! It’s real and he asked you in the moment that he felt it was right. It is actually far more romantic than some contrived, overplanned, stilted proposal in a public place. I hope you said yes once you’d eaten?!

A staged proposal at the top of the Eiffel Tower is all very well, but a man who can ask when his child is sick, his STBwife is at the end of her tether and looking like she just fell out of a skip is in it for the long haul and should be snapped up pronto!

I think its probably the most romantic proposal I have ever heard of and it has made me sweaty at the eyes!

Congratulations :) xxx

DH was always asking me to marry him. but I already had one disasterous marriage behind me so was more than a little cautious.
Anyway I made my mind up that it wasn't such a bad idea so one evening we were sitting in the car and I said "I've decided we should get married" to which he replied " Well I've changed my mind and decided against it"
I really lost my shit and shouted and screamed at him, we had a really loud full and frank exchange of views!. We stopped shouting when we had both run out of steam and he said very calmly "Okay then when shall we get married?"
We celebrated our 41st anniversary last year.
Congratulations OP

My dh proposed to me after we'd been arguing earlier in the day (we'd sorted it all out and things were fine though). We were sat listening to music in the early hours of the morning, in comfy indoor clothes. And he just asked me, just us, no fancy gesture or long speech, a simple question, exactly how I wanted it to be. It was perfect. (Followed by a walk to Asda at 2am to get a bottle of champagne as we couldn't not have a bottle of fizz to celebrate. The assistant was the first person we told, we couldn't contain the excitement and just came out with "we got engaged half an hour ago and wanted champagne to celebrate". I wouldn't change anything about it, and he knew I didn't want a big fuss and I certainly didn't want anyone else around.

Awww this is lovely 🤩🤩🤩

Congratulations!! Very natural proposal - the best kind!

Congratulations - thats so sweet and shows true love!

I genuinely think that's adorable.

This is sooooo cute. Lovely post. Enjoy your McDonald's!

Genuine and perfect. Mine proposed eating takeaway drunk at 3am on the steps of a derelict church. 90s romcoms have nothing on me.