Impatient to get engaged!!

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Dp and I have been together nearly 2.5 years, own a house together, have a baby together and he has/is a wonderful stepdad to my dd1 since she was 19months. We talk about getting married all the time, I know he wants to, I've jokingly "proposed" saying he wants to be traditional and ask me. So why hasn't he?! I know we're very happy as we are and marriage isn't the be all or end all but it's important to me. I'm 26, he's 33. I also know this is non-issue compared to all other mn relationship issues, but it's really bugging me. Wwyd?

really? depends how romantic he is. My DH made a massive big gesture and had it all planned. Said it wouldn't feel 'proper' if he didn't.
Different men think about the whole thing differently, and to some it is a massive big deal where they are in the spotlight and they want to get it right. I don't know the OP's partner so i have no idea if he is one of them, but it certainly 'could' be the case.
He also might want to wait because he has just had a child and it's about all his brain can cope with right now.

It doesn't seem particularly romantic to me to keep the person you love in a sort of limbo until some arbitrary date when you know-because she told you- that the waiting is making her unhappy.

If you already jointly own a house together and have a baby together, even just for legal reasons marriage is a practical idea.
Yet you have achieved quite a lot in a small space of time to have all this after only 2.5 years together, so it isn't surprising that the final life commitment of marriage is being delayed I suppose.

Being a parent is a life long commitment but he seems to have coped with that okay.