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.

Best be deleting your browser history if you've been constantly clicking on that ring, just in case! 😂

Very exciting OP!

Sounds lovely - green amethyst is so uncommon and such a gorgeous colour. Congrats in advance!

Cheating bastard! You must have been devastated! x

It was the absolute worst day of my life. I still get nausea thinking about it all and remembering the pain I went through.

Congratulations in advance OP. Don't forget to post a picture of the 💍 when he presents it.
PS. To all the negative posters on this thread, bore off and stop trying to bring the OP down.

Come on now OP. This is MN, you must know you can’t just make a throwaway comment like that and expect to get away with it !! Come on. Spill. With diagrams !! Congrats for the forthcoming proposal by the way.

Good point, and one which could apply to quite a few posters here !!

This 100%

Congratulations OP I’m excited for you!

Try reading even the OP's posts. That might be illuminating for you.

Sorry OP, just caught up. That must have been devastating for you - so glad things turned out well for you.

I wish you every happiness x

So any dissenting voice about about waiting for a proposal must of necessity mean a) 'no man would have you!' and b) 'you're bitter!' Not forgetting, of course, the nice little ableist, not to mention sexist protestation that feminists are 'insane!'

And no, the above observations are not a comment on OP's situation; nor does the way other women choose to conduct their relationships affect my life one iota. It's merely a response to the specific posts quoted above (which are like a game of 'how many bingo cards is it possible to tick off on one page.') You've properly gone through the patriarchal looking glass, haven't you?

OP, your relationship sounds happy and so do you. Misery is too much in abundance in this life so it's great when we can revel in all the good times that come our way. Congratulations!

Ah come on, I'm definitely on the side of women shouldn't be waiting around for men to propose, but I also understand that many many women love that and I'm happy if they are. Exciting OP!

Ok MN, brace yourselves.....

There's a communal laundry room where I live. Sometimes people will remove your washing from the dryer and fold it. Yes, people fold strangers' clothes. I have folded strangers' clothes as well.

Here's the next level.

If there's underwear in the load from the dryer I cover it over with a larger item and leave it on the work top. I've no idea who's knickers or pants I'm protecting from prying eyes, but I do it anyway.

Why do people have to be so horrible and negative on a happy post?

Argh. This thread is annoying me (not due to you OP).

I got engaged 3 months in by mutual agreement (in a pub 😅). My sisters both got engaged around five years in, I don't think there was any proposal but more a discussion. My brother's wife (who I adore) only got engaged after 10 years when my brother finally did the big proposal as that was her expectation. Doesn't make her a bad person.

People have different lives with all kinds of complications and expectations. It's not for any of you to judge.

Just to repeat OP, congrats and I hope you continue to have a beautiful life together

Sounds like you have completely rebuilt your life. You sound happy and excited. Best wishes to you both and your family

Oh be quiet! How do you live with being so judgemental?! Let her be happy!

Why are people so bloody horrible?

Liripipe Assuming chores are shared, then of course Op would be putting everyone's washing away at the same time. Or should she be so petty as to only take her own things off the clothes horse? For all you know, Op's partner is currently cooking dinner.

If you and your partner nit pick, to make sure that you only do things for your own selves, because heaven forbid you do anything to help each other, then I think that says quite a bit about your own relationship, tbh. It doesn't sound good.

Passive? Passenger in her own life?

You sound so bitter.

Exactly this. I’m not from the UK though, but to me it is just baffling.

Edit to say I’ve read your updates and can see there were reasons behind it.

Absolutely amazing isn’t it. Among all the doom and gloom we get an OP who posts something happy and optimistic for the future, and yet there are some who are so dissatisfied with their own lives that they line up to drag her down.

I remember moving some furniture to vacuum and there was an envelope underneath which was odd. I decided to leave it and not look. I knew I could be spoiling a surprise. I found it later it was the receipt for my engagement ring.

I really hope he asks soon and it all goes well. Kudos for ditching your cheating ex. Many women would have stayed having just married him.

Same thing happened to me. Took him 9 months more to propose!!

"The ring is lily green amethyst and pink sapphire with a white gold band "

Jesus fucking Christ, that sounds stonkingly stunning, you lucky woman!! As a previous jeweller I can just picture it now, I bet it's utterly beautiful