I found an engagement ring!!!!!

[ThisMustBeMyDream]

After almost 7 years together and hoping that I'd get a proposal... I've just accidentally found the ring!!!!!!!! Putting his flaming underwear away, stuffed at the back of the drawer! Of course I looked... tried it on... it's exactly what I'd wanted and is my size! I'm overjoyed! But annoyed I found it too!

I can't tell anyone of course... I have to keep it all in! But... ARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! I'm just so freakin' excited!!!!!!!

I really hope he does it soon... he knows I don't do flashy, public things. So I'm hoping it's romantic and just the two of us, or just our family (we both have children from previous relationships). He knows me so well though so I'm sure it will be lovely. He's a teacher, so I'm guessing something might happen over the summer holidays 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞. Or perhaps it could be later this year near my 40th. I'm guessing it won't be for my 40th though, he wouldn't do it then. But he might do it around that time.

Sorry for all the exclamations marks! I'm a little excited as you can probably tell.

No. I cannot think for one second why a grown adult woman would share such information with randoms on the Internet.
Friends, family? Of course.

And yes, when a woman is young getting all excited about an engagement ring is fine, but a grown up woman in a 'blended' family? Sorry but it's ridiculous.

Just don't get it. All this 'I'm a princess' shit doesn't wash past youth.

People getting annoyed and posting to instruct others not to post if they're annoyed isn't the most helpful...

Felaku

Aren’t you a joy!

People can be happy for OP, when so much to be miserable about - it’s nice to hear good news.

Another one. Grown women.

Wow, @Felaku are you having a bad day already? Go back to bed and get out the other side!
OP is excited and the rest of us can't wait to hear her news, so what if she sounds like an 18 year old?
If you don't like happiness like this I suggest you scroll by and find something depressing to consume yourself!
BTW, have a NICE day!

I just don't get the trend for grown women to behave as if they're still teenagers-leave it to the young girls for goodness sake. Getting all giggly over a ring.

They're grown ups with a blended family not teenagers.

If you haven’t got anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.

@Felaku what a grump you are!!! Are grown women with families not allowed get excited about things unless it's directly to do with their children? 🙄 its not a trend! she's still a person, in a loving relationship, and being proposed to is a celebration of that. Take your grumpiness elsewhere. There's 30 pages of strangers commenting that are excited, offering insights, and want to hear about this. Makes a nice change from the usual negative "men are dickheads" threads we see. Move along if you don't want to join in the happiness.

I agree - I never know why they think the last night is the best time to do it when you have to pack and have the stress of flying back the next day!

My friend also proposed on holiday (I helped him choose the ring), and I told him to propose on the second night, which he did. His (now) wife thanked me for that when they got back home!

What's age is the cut-off for being allowed to be excited about a happy life event? Just so we all know.

Plane on the way back??

It's a bit off that he's left the ring in a bedside cabinet.
His or your DD's? It looks like children's stuff there.

Isn't he taking a risk that she finds it and brings it out in front of you asking him what it's for?

I think it’s tonight, I can feel it in me waters

OP already said earlier in the thread she thinks her SD is in on it. It’s sweet.

Have you and him talked about getting married?
Isn't it a 'given' rather than a big surprise considering your time together and the kids?

Hmm....

That's hardly romantic is it.

Not sweet.

Silly if it's even true. And bloody stupid to give a child the responsibility of keeping a secret for him like this. Especially if he's a teacher and should understand kids.

This is stretching the tale I think.

How many posts can a thread have? I don’t want to miss an update!

@ListentotheButterflies stop fishing for trouble. If you doubt the OP report to MN Towers. But no, I don’t think it’s weird. I think you’re stretching.

Im off to work now. Hoping for an update later!

30 pages of comments say random internet strangers seem to care quite a lot. Including you, given you've now commented several times. ;)

I have - reported it.

Read far too many threads on MN where the 'audience' is strung along.

And even if it IS true asking a child to keep such a secret is just ridiculous.

Don't worry I'm sure there will be a thread 2.

Aw hope it's real. A few years ago there was a thread about an op meeting her dream man and we all waited for him to call then help her find something to wear, went on for ages until we found she was just writing a romance story and the thread was pulled.

Who cares what age you are! If you're excited about something get excited. Stop pissing in other people's happiness because you have an issue with your own life. How ever much you deny it, the two negged out posters above definitely do have unhappiness going on.

When you meet someone later in life that makes you just so happy after some hard times, just block out the haters.

@ThisMustBeMyDream hope the tooth feels so much better today and could today be the day? 💍

Just because some of us are a bit sceptical doesn't mean we have an issue in our lives.

Maybe we're reading a bit more carefully and going 'Hmmm'.