32-year-old woman breaks up with her 34-year-old boyfriend of 5 years after he refuses to propose, giving his brother $1500 for his birthday instead of buying a ring: 'He told me that he would propose before the end of the year. It's been over 2 years'

Do any of y'all remember that old Twitter trend, #WasteHisTime2016? This hashtag brought single women who wanted to waste men's time together, joking about the various ways they could do so. While it's funny to joke about asking a guy if he's good with his hands and then forcing him to put together an IKEA dresser for 6 hours, it's less fun when someone actually gets their time majorly wasted in a relationship that's never going to go anywhere. I know people who have been strung along for years in relationships, only to get broken up with, losing out on precious time when they're young and healthy. I don't mean to be presumptuous, but if you don't know if you want to spend the rest of your life with someone after being together for 5 years, you might be participating in Waste His/Her/Their time 2025, and that's not good.

The woman in this story put all her cards on the table and still got her time wasted. She told her boyfriend that she needed a ring on her finger before their first year of living together was up, and he did nothing of the sort.
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AITA for breaking up and treating him like a stranger after he falsely promised marriage as a condition for living together?

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