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"Getting engaged"

I am getting engaged within the next 3 weeks, I haven't decided when I should do it or how I should do it. I have two ways in my mind that I can propose to my girlfriend, the first one is to propose to her on our 6th month anniversary as we are going to a nice restaurant that night to celebrate six months of being together, the restauarant would be a nice place to propose, a more traditional (and boring) way of proposing, then again I'm not exactly a traditional and boring guy. So my other way of proposing was to do it at the anime convention we are going to, do it at the karaoke which is being held there, you know, change the words of a song so that it comes out as 'will you marry me' I just don't know what way I should propose, I think that if I did it at the convention that it would make our first anime convention much more memorable, either way I know that my girlfriend will be very pleased but I'm unsure of the best way, any thoughts?

FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> I've been engaged 27 times.

Yes, but we're not talking about toilets...

I've been engaged 27 times.

Why wait? Because no matter what you think, 6 months is hardly anything. It's these kind of marriage that usually end in divorce, because guess what, people discover they aren't actually "meant for each other" at all.

What's the hurry? So what, you both want to do it now, but what are you scared of? that you won't want to do it in a few years? That's you won't love each other anymore? If that happens, then you won't want to get married anyway/wish you hadn't.

Colourless wrote:
> Engaged after only six months eh...?
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> I'm gonna be a mother for one second: Are you sure you're ready?
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> Done.

Your tag is Que sera sera, correct? Whatever will be will be? Why ask am I ready? If your tag is true? Surely everything will be ok ? It all happens for a reason, eh?

I think 18 is fine for getting engaged to be married if you're both aware of what you're doing, and you certainly appear to be someone with enough brains for that.

What I don't understand is people who get engaged with no plans to marry or at least to marry in the few years afterwards. Why get 'engaged to be married' - which is, after all, what it is supposed to be - at all if you're not going to go through with it all?

Best of luck to you on getting it sorted out, it's one of the most nail biting experiences if you're planning it without her knowing!

But 6 months?

I was with someone for 18 months and after 6 months i was sure he was the one. Over time we wanted different things and discovered we wasn't right for each other..

Engaged after only six months eh...?

I'm gonna be a mother for one second: Are you sure you're ready?

Done.

I am going to Uni this year, she's going next year because she needs another A-level to get in to her Archaeology course.

What I said before, English Bloke, was'nt off a crappy yankee tv show, its just something which came out, it's true though, why wait till we are older if we want to do it now? If we feel that now is the right time? I don't see any problem with it, it doesn't mean that our lives are gone now, quite the opposite in fact.

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