VOTE: Should more women propose?
The tables are turning...
Béyonce said it best when she said, "if you like then you should put a ring on it".
2023 is the year where we are breaking the traditional norms and creating a new social standard. The tables have turned...
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"I think the notion of having a man get down on one knee and popping the question is cliché," says Stacey Norman.
The question is complicated but the answer often simple; I do or I don't.
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Some people think that no matter how you identify, you shouldn't let societal norms determine when and how you get engaged. If you feel it's the right moment, take the leap of faith and simply ask your partner to marry you.
Here are some situations where a woman proposed to their partner:
“I had been dating my boyfriend (at the time) for almost eight years. We never talked about getting married but we started dating at age 18 and life was so messy then, between college, graduating, figuring out a postgrad life, etc. When things felt settled and we both had decent jobs and our own place to live, I started hinting at the idea of marriage. He always would smile and laugh but he never like made a move or said he was planning on proposing. On our eight-year anniversary, I got down on one knee, with a ring I bought for $200 for him and said, 'Let’s get married.' I think he was half shocked and half pissed at himself for not doing this first. But he said yes and I forgave him for being dumb and not thinking of proposing first. We’re getting married in April of 2020.”
My wife and I knew on the first date. We were eating lunch and we both got quiet. She looked at me and said "you know, this will get really serious, real fast." I said "I know." I never asked her, but about a week in to dating (not leaving the bedroom aside from bathroom breaks and to answer the door for restaurant deliveries), she said "we should go look at rings." We married a month after our first date. That will have been five years ago this August. We're very happy.
“We were drunk and on a cruise with a bunch of our friends. We’d been dating for what felt like forever (four years), and one night on the cruise I got down on a knee and said, 'Marry me?' All of our friends went crazy. Everyone thought it was a joke. It was—but it also was not. Two weeks post-cruise, he got on one knee and asked me, [too].”
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