‘I won’t marry you’: Woman Breaks Up With Boyfriend After He Unromantically Proposes to Her At a Walmart

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Mar 8, 2024 3:00 PM EST

Welcome back ladies and gentleladies. The topic for today: marriage proposal. Women are like fruits, we come in many different forms, we have different bodies, and we all have different preferences that we desire for our romantic life. We all want different things in the bedroom, how we're touched, felt, loved, and we all have a different version of our 'happily ever after.' 

Some women want to get married on a yacht, or garden, with all their friends and family and have a huge celebration, and feel like the queens of their kingdom. Some want a quiet, calm wedding with only a few close friends around them. And when it comes to the proposal, it's no different. Getting down on one knee doesn't necessarily cut it anymore, and how you propose and with what ring could make or break the relationship. So much pressure on just a few words! See for yourself how hilarious the proposal can be in this Reddit thread.

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    r/AITAH Dramatic Ad8157 17 hr. ago Am I the for breaking up with my boyfriend after a failed marriage proposal
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    I am 44 have been dating my boyfriend m 38, for a little over a year. Background, we discussed what we both wanted in life before we got serious. I've been married twice both ended badly and I told him I had no intention of ever getting married again. He's been married once before and it ended badly for him. I have 3 kid, 2 of them are grown adults
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    and live on their own with their partners. I still have a 16 year old at home, but this allows me more freedom then him to do what I want. He has 2 kids a boy age 11 a girl age 9. Now I had no problem meeting his kids and being a friend to them. But he started referring to me as their mom. I told him he shouldn't say things like that. And he kept
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    saying he was going to marry me and referring to me as his fiance. Again I told him not to say this. In all the time we have been together he has only been to my house about 4 times. He always has an excuse as to why he can't come over and stay (I don't have any one to take care of the kids) he lives with his mother.... So I would go to his house which is
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    about 40 minutes away. Any time we went anywhere we always took my car because he would say he doesn't have enough gas. This man makes more money than I do.... So last week we were shopping in Walmart for a few things I needed for my house. When he pullse over to the jewelry counter, he pins me up against the counter and tells me
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    to pick one. I tell him no, I don't want a ring. We go back and forth and I finally get free. I finished getting what I needed check out and leave. When we get to his house I tell him I have to leave. The whole thing just brings up all the abuse from previous relationships, that he knows about. Later that night I tell him I can't do this anymore I'm done.
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    He threatened to come to my house but of he didn't because he never comes over. So I flat out tell him I can not marry you. He replied why not and that he can hold off on it. so I remind him that I told him in the beginning I didn't not have any intentions of ever getting married again. He claims he doesn't remember this and say he can wait, like I'm going
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    to change my mind. All the whole say how much I'm hurting him and hard this is on him. So again I remind him I don't want to get married and after the stunt he pulled in the store in front of his daughter, I have nothing more to say to him. Am I the ?
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    Laiko_Kairen • 16h ago Yeah, he is looking for a mother to his kids. Who you are and what you want is a distant second place to his search for a live in nanny. I'm glad you got out. He'd have made you raise his kids
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    professorstrunk • 16h ago Yup run. And change your locks and passcodes just in case.
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    Dragon1 Heat 16h ago ● He doesn't want a partner he wants a mother.
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    lipgloss_addict 16h ago Yipes. You were going to be a mommy to this guy and his kids. Pinning you against the counter? Yeah he is a creep. I'm glad you got away.
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    Dipshitistan 16h ago This dude is having a buy one, get one free sale on red flags.
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    SamuraiMarvin. 16h ago NTA you set your boundaries clearly in the beginning and he chose to ignore them (or didn't pay enough attention to remember them). You've lived your life and raised your kids. He's looking for a person to raise his, and considering he was going to
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    propose so soon and was pushing you so urgently, I say you made the right decision. Don't go back to him, there's far better out there for you
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    facinationstreet • 16h ago You have recognized all of the red flags for over a year with this guy and you continued to date him. You allowed his lack of participation as an equal partner (never coming to your place/never driving), you allowed him to
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    continually break your boundaries (referring to you as mom to his kids, gaslighting you). Of course you aren't TA. However, maybe it is time to not date for a year or more and work on healing from past relationship, learning how to set and keep boundaries, how to advocate for yourself
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    how to advocate for yourself and not allow someone else to run all over you. ΝΤΑ
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    ConsistentRough... NTA, this ridiculous that a woman's biggest dream is to marry has made some men believe that they're some sort of superhero for going through with this agreement that tends to benefit mostly them (as statistics state, married men are happier while • 16h ago notion
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    married women, often not). His constant lack of care for what you want, won't go away and will only get worse as he realizes he can get away with it, you only protected yourself.
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    coralcoast21 • 16h ago Walmart? For an engagement ring? Thanks, but no. Next he'll be wanting OP to fund basics for his kids.
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    Beard Man Michael • 16h ago Sounds like he's a man child. If you got with him, you'd have to deal with his children and his own childish stupidity. Don't go anywhere near that. Stay away from that overgrown baby. NTA, obviously.
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    SockMaster9273 • 16h ago ΝΤΑ He was looking for someone who can work for him not someone to love him. He makes more money than you but has to live with his mother. You always have to go to his place but he can never come to yours. He
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    always has to drive your car and never his. He is trying to get his kids to call you mom when you tell him that is not what you want. You have told him what sounds like multiple times you don't want to get married again and yet he still tries to force it. He pins you up to a counter, in front of his
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    daughter to force you to pick out a ring which makes you fight against him which is basically showing his daughter that she has to get married and that her future partner can put his hands on her in a threatening way.
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    I feel bad for his kids and you but no remorse for him. He was a bad partner to you and you deserve someone who understands marriage is not what you are looking for. I wish you luck in that.
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