When Scott asked me to be his
girlfriend, I surprised him by saying, "No." We were on the phone, as
we were every night. I could tell he was hurt, but since we were on the phone
and not together in person, we had to talk, and that was a good thing.
I explained, "I'm 30 years
old. I've already had the last boyfriend I am ever going to have. In the
future, I am going to have a husband, not a boyfriend."
He surprised me by taking this
in stride. "I understand," he said. "You do realize I am in the
Navy and all that entails?"
"I was born in the
Navy!" This was true. My dad was in the Navy.
Four months later, he took me
on a date to the top of the Space Needle in Seattle.
He passed me a little black
velvet box under the table, and whispered:
"Babe, will you marry
me?"
"Do you mean it?"
Yes, that's what I said. Not
very romantic, was I?
ABOUT THE BOOK
He likes it. Now get him to put
a ring on it!
Learn from these 50 stories of
women who have been there!
Sandy's boyfriend Jack wouldn't
even bring up the 'm word'. She started leaving her things in his apartment,
including some tampons in his bathroom. It worked! Too off guard to make
excuses like "Living together is just as good as being married," Jack
said, "People will start to think you're my wife!" "Well, how
about it?" Sandy asked Jack.
Crystal got Paul to skip just
living together by refusing to move across the country until she had a marriage
license, signed and dated.
Read these full stories plus 48
more, ranging from the heartwarming to the hilarious!
You don't have to interview 50
married women to find out how they managed to get that ring on their finger.
The author has done that for you. All 50 were married after 1990, so this is
modern information for our changing times. Read and find out how you can get
him to marry you and not just live together!
AN EXCERPT
"He was smart, too: a
mechanical engineering major who got straight A's almost effortlessly. But what
really attracted me to him was his sweet personality. You haven't lived until a
boy a year older than you constantly refers to you as "Ma'am." The
poor country boy was so nervous around women; he had no idea what a prize
specimen he was.
Anyway, I never thought that
this shy, sweet hunk would ever ask me out. But that certainly wasn't going to
prevent me from flirting with him. What can I say? I was seventeen and single,
and he was eighteen and hot. I always arrived early to our first-period English
class just so we would have a few minutes to talk.
Unbeknownst to me, he thought I
was a nice, sweet girl and wanted to ask me to go with him to a college event.
But by midterms, he still hadn't mustered up the courage.
There was nothing I could do to
make him ask me out. I was old-fashioned, and if we were meant to be, I wanted
the man to be the one to ask. Since I am married to the man, you know that he
eventually did. Three weeks before the end of the semester, he practically
knocked me off my chair by asking me to go with him to the Thanksgiving play
that the school put on every year.
Our relationship moved pretty
slow for the next few years. We were still young, and in college, so neither of
us was in a big hurry.
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