I've been with my new man nearly 6 months and we're deeply in love and feel that we've both found someone really special. At the moment we live 200 miles apart so only see eachother fortnightly but he's said this is only short-term and wants us to be together within a year or so when he should be able to move.
We're in our early 50s and divorced (me for 2 years, him for 12). I'd love to get married again and I wasn't sure about how he felt but the other day he told me that he'd told his work colleagues that "he felt he could marry this girl" (meaning me). I didn't really respond but wondered if he was looking for encouragement from me. I was wondering if I could bring this up with him and say something along the lines of: "well why don't you ask me then?" because I do feel this is the man I could marry. We can't rush anything because it would be at least a year before he could move, but having a longish engagement would be fine by me and give us a chance to really get to know eachother. We both find the distance really hard to cope with but knowing there's a firm commitment would make it so much easier for me. Or would bringing this up at this stage be rushing things?