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.

Delighted for you op !!

it will still be a surprise when he asks and the ring is super pretty 🍾🥂

I think people assume that the way they live their life is the right way.
They clearly forget that we are all different and no one rule applies to all of us!
Just because I've wanted to be engaged for years, it doesn't mean we've been able to. We've been doing the right thing for the children. I mean he could have proposed sooner, sure. But we still couldn't have married. So what is the point? I suppose technically we've been engaged for years as we've talked about it many times and both clear that we want to be married. This is the bit where the marriage is actually going to happen!

Really pleased for you, OP. Come back and tell us when it happens!

I found mine. I was putting some towels away in his airing cupboard. Thought he was going to do it on my birthday as he dropped me off and had left a CD to play, When a Man Loves a Woman by Bryan Adams. He didn't come back that evening as he bottled out, but proposed to me the following week when we were away. He was literally the boy next door (as owned flat above me) and we're still together 29 years later.

Oh ignore them OP. Boring arseholes with their 'yah you wouldn't find me waiting for a man' is just a load shite and their ability to try at every turn to ruin other peoples joy because they think they're striking a blow against the patriarchy instead makes them come across as joyless, totalitarian eejits who just clamber through life sucking happiness from every angle.

Whatever you do don't take his surname - for every woman who does that a Feminist Fairy dies....

I hope you get the proposal you want and I'm sure it will be worth it. ❤️

Why do you put his underwear away and go through his drawer?

DH puts away my pants, I put away his. It just depends on whose turn it is to empty the washing machine 🤷‍♀️ It’s called being in a normal, loving, partnership.

Oh another one.

@protectoroftherealm I'm double barrelling! I already have my exs surname. I hated mine! When I married him and left him after 4 hours... (yeah, long story) I kept it.
My kids have my name, so I'm double barrelling 😊.

Well, actually I don't always put them away. Sometimes I get fucked off with cleaning and tidying so I dump them next to his bed to put away. But I was in a good mood dancing with my headphones in whilst emptying a basket of drying. So I put them away. That okay hun?
He left the h.samuel bag at the top of his drawer. Dipshit!

Good! But yes, absolutely no pictures to anyone would be my advice as well.

enjoy the surprise (now) but try to keep it out of your mind. And if you don’t look at the ring again, the joy and surprise when you actually get to wear it will be greater as well! 😀

😇🤭

As for upcoming occasions... we have 3 child free days in the summer holidays, as yet unplanned so it could be one of those. We are going to Teneriefe in early August although my dad will be there and I don't think he'd do it in front of my dad for fear of offending my mum (another long bloody story!). Our 7 year anniversary is early September, but I don't think he'd wait til then, I really think it will be at some point in the school hols. And I reckon it might involve the kids in some way!

So sad that some women feel the need to be bitches and try to ruin other women's happiness.

Congratulations OP!

Lovely ring.
Will he be able to tell you've been in the drawer?

How sour.

Call me nosey but the 4 hour marriage has intrigued me??

OP don't say you're cleaning for him as well....... 😮

I'm surprised the ''don't do anything nice for your partner - ever'' crew haven't picked up on that. It should be 'when I finish MY cleaning'. Do you hoover no more than half of each room, wash your own cup and only change your own pillowcase? In that case, crack on😂

I wish you all a long and happy family life together ❤

(You do realise that we'll all be stalking the thread for an update 😁)

No. It looks like a bomb went off in there. He is the most unobservant person I've ever known. On the other hand, I'm m like a detective. I'd know if it was a mm out of place!

Couldn't agree more

I'm a good updater. Don't worry! There will be a ending to the story!

Who pissed in your cornflakes!

I'm sure they have talked about it - the OP would like a traditional proposal. That's not unusual. WTF is wrong with "hitting" 40? How deeply begrudging. You are coming across as very bitter.

Didn’t take long did it ?

Couldn't disagree more.

Congratulations OP!

Turned out he was a cheating shit. I posted on MN at the time. 10 years have passed... I married him on my 30th birthday. Pregnant with my 3rd child. 4 hours later the announcement I'd made (got married with just 2 witnesses) was met with a message that he'd been cheating on me with her just 8 weeks prior.
It was over there and then. Fucking disaster. He walked away from the kids too.

Why do you sit there typing silly questions?