Anonymous
Post 02/17/2026 14:26     Subject: No proposal/ring on Valentines Day
She sounds spoiled and demanding. I think this guy really dogged a bullet here!
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2026 12:29     Subject: No proposal/ring on Valentines Day
Anonymous wrote:My daughter broke up with her boyfriend because he didn’t give her an engagement ring and propose on Valentines Day. She was disappointed that he didn’t propose at Christmas, so she gave him until Valentines Day. He didn’t and that’s over. They were together over two years and it seems to me that she's so sad. What is a normal length of time to just date someone now?


the guy dodged a bullet for sure.

demanding a proposal on a specific holiday.

wow, you must be a troll.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2026 12:28     Subject: Re:No proposal/ring on Valentines Day
Your daughter sounds immature and high maintenance. He’s lucky.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2026 11:23     Subject: No proposal/ring on Valentines Day
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If your daughter wanted to get married to him, then she could have proposed.



Do women put a ring on it now?


This is such an idiotic question, and idiotic phrasing.


Why? Do women propose in 2026?


Yes but they do it in a passive-aggressive way… by issuing an ultimatum. 😀
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2026 11:15     Subject: No proposal/ring on Valentines Day
Smart woman. If she’s in her mid 20s these are her prime dating years. Best not to waste them on a guy who won’t commit. Two years is plenty of time.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2026 10:59     Subject: No proposal/ring on Valentines Day
Anonymous wrote:I think there is a lot of pressure on women in their 20's to get married when friends start to have weddings. At this age, the peer pressure and social media brain washing is huge. It makes women feel unattractive.


Ultimately, if women want to have kids with a husband they realize they need to get married sooner rather than later.

Once you get to your mid 20s, it's best to find someone else if current guy doesn't want to commit. I found out the hard way.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2026 10:58     Subject: Re:No proposal/ring on Valentines Day
Anonymous wrote:February is the time of year with lots of seasonal depression. The daughter was probably depressed with the winter. It’s ironic the ultimatum not only didn’t work, it fired back.


No, it worked. He revealed his non-intentions, and she walked. Good for her.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2026 10:56     Subject: No proposal/ring on Valentines Day
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I heard this from a friend. She said to her boyfriend of several years, "I would like to be married to you but if you don't want to be married, I need to date other people." And she did and they were no longer a couple.

No drama no fight. She dated others rather than him and in 6months to a year he had decided, he would like to be married. And he hoped to marry her and hoped she was still available. She was, and they got married.

This happens a lot.


It happens way more than most women admit. Plenty of women I know did this to get married. Are they happy though?


I’m not. But he has mental disorders he won’t manage. So that may have been driving his lack of emotion and action and decisions.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2026 10:54     Subject: No proposal/ring on Valentines Day
Anonymous wrote:If your daughter wanted to get married to him, then she could have proposed.


Risk there is the boy couldn’t handle that and was resentful, OR he’d hem & haw about how he just doesn’t know…

Either way, she would have smoked out a loser and been single. Same as now!
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2026 10:52     Subject: No proposal/ring on Valentines Day
Get happy with yourself and friends, then go get setup with new dates.

Dont worry about flakey ex BF, he’ll disappoint whomever he ends up with in the long run. Dudes who don’t know what they want or need another adult to tell them what to do, fail over and over at adulting.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2026 10:50     Subject: No proposal/ring on Valentines Day
Anonymous wrote:Two years, no plan, time to move on.


Don’t bother wondering what he could be. He’s shown you. Done and done.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2026 10:50     Subject: No proposal/ring on Valentines Day
Anonymous wrote:My daughter broke up with her boyfriend because he didn’t give her an engagement ring and propose on Valentines Day. She was disappointed that he didn’t propose at Christmas, so she gave him until Valentines Day. He didn’t and that’s over. They were together over two years and it seems to me that she's so sad. What is a normal length of time to just date someone now?


Don’t let her go back to him. He’s not into marriage or her or both. Those times you have to prompt and tell what to do are exhausting and usually end up divorced.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2026 10:48     Subject: No proposal/ring on Valentines Day
She wanted to get engaged after 2 years of dating? How old is she?

I would never want to get engaged on a holiday. That would water it down, but that’s just me.

Anonymous
Post 02/17/2026 10:28     Subject: No proposal/ring on Valentines Day
Anonymous wrote:Two years, no plan, time to move on.


Yeah .. This.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2026 10:18     Subject: No proposal/ring on Valentines Day
Two years, no plan, time to move on.