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.

But I might miss that one too 😂 I won’t get a notification and I am too busy to sit on mumsnet all day. (But I probably will anyway)

Have you got the lottery numbers?

@ListentotheButterflies being a bit sceptical is normal, downing "grown" women for being excited is just negging everyone out. (I hate that word 😒)

Why have you bothered to post and report? 😂

Have you not seen the photos of them at the resort…?

I fear Rufus Hound has arrived on this thread 😂

Yes. Anyone could add any photos either from stock photos or old photos. It doesn't prove a thing.

I would be losing patience by now and tempted to just say (after a couple of gins of course!) "Oh, for fuck's sake, of course I'll marry you" whether the ring appears or not!

I'm crap at pretending / faking / lying, DH would know immediately if I had something this big on my mind.

In response to a poster who suggested I did.

Okay?

I've seen too many threads like this- Mills&Boom romance tales- on MN where loads of posters get drawn in, really excessively, then the thread gets pulled or the OP just goes AWOL.

Obviously, I hope the OP gets what she wants, but I'm allowed to have some ???? in my head . If that offends people, it says more about their own investment in a thread.

I didn't say 'grown' women.

That was another poster today.

Just propose yourself

What happens if it’s not tonight I wonder. I’m not invested in the thread, I’ve dipped in and out (think it’s my first post on it). This proposal does seem to be taking the length of a War & Peace novel though. Still, I am curious about the ring as it sounds unique and interesting.

You can just advance search surely if you think there is anything dodgy 🤣. I've been on MN for over 15 years. I've been under this username for at least 5 years, maybe longer! Those who have been to the hotel can vouch that the photo is from within the rooms. In fact, you can probably find a photo of the room yourself which will show that the photo of the ring box is definitely in that hotel room. And yes, it's the Bahia Principe Fantasia!

@ListentotheButterflies

Sensible to quickly advance search a posters username before reporting them to Mumsnet if you think there is something dodgy going on.

OP has been on here for years. Do you think she's been playing the long game for years just to have her moment on a proposal thread?

And even if it had been a fake thread, it wouldn't exactly be a harmful one would it?

Life is short, lighten up a little!

Why bother reading the thread then! Yet another Fun Sponge

oh how exciting!! fingers crossed its tonight!

I am so invested in this thread! 😂 So excited for you OP, awaiting news!

That poster has posted previously to defend the fun sponges and trying to stop any calling out. 🤷‍♀️

OP, perhaps your DP thinks you've had enough on your plate being in pain and having to have dental surgery without him springing his big 'surprise' while you might not be feeling great. Just try to enjoy your holiday now without checking the ring box, who knows if you stop thinking about it you might suddenly have a genuine surprise moment!

It won’t be a bump back to normal life as you’ll be on a high from being ENGAGED 😃😃

He needs to get a move on. I am on tenterhooks. He may do it when you least expect. My now DH and I were on a long holiday in Australia and New Zealand. We went to some incredible places and every time I was bracing myself for him to ask. One day we travelled by boat to an island and all our friends went off somewhere else to give him space to ask. We had a lovely walk along a deserted sandy beach and nothing. Everyone looking at me with happy questioning faces when we re-met up. But nothing. Then out of the blue as I was sorting laundry in a friend's guest room he suddenly asked. I think I was pairing socks at the time. He had/ has no sense of occasion. 😂

Do you think he wants you to find the ring as part of the proposal plan?!

You're not enjoying the holiday because you're waiting for a proposal.

He's probably not enjoying the holiday either.

Just say to him you've found the fucking ring and move on

I think I'd try and remind myself that he's choosing this - he's clearly planned it. He's got the ring you love, he's bought it on holiday, he has a plan.

The way that you seem to want this to go, you don't get a say in this bit. It's a shame that you know, in a way, because you'd just be enjoying your holiday otherwise.

Try to do that anyway, and just know that this might be the cherry on the cake for you at some point. It is hard, but you genuinely don't want your memories of this holiday to be that you were waiting around. I found it super tough to begin with but you can train yourself not to be constantly thinking about it/waiting for it, if you try.

If he pops the question over a lovely meal on your last night, that was exactly how it was supposed to go ❤️

@ListentotheButterflies why report a nice happy thread - is your life really so miserable? If you don’t like the thread then don’t read it

LMAO at the poster who has reported this thread because everyone is being strung along lol it's hardly an outlandish story is it? Asking a child to keep a secret in this context is not concerning either ffs. Fucking ridiculous on here and as for the poster who thinks only young girls get excited and giggly and it's pathetic for a grown woman pfttt what a miserable existence you must lead. I'm a 43 year old woman and there are hints that my favourite band might be getting back together (it's Oasis so probably won't lol) and I'm quite excited about that and if it happens I might actually piss myself with excitement and I won't apologise for it. Grumpy twats everywhere