In your memory has a woman ever proposed marriage to a man?

Many. This is the Third Millenium, women don’t feel they have to wait for the man to take the iniative every time.

More often, though, now it seems that the idea of marriage is discussed, then agreed upon.

None come to mind. Then again, I can’t recall ever asking a person how their engagement took place. To me, that is personal information. If they want to tell it, that’s fine. The only one I remember is Dad’s proposal to Mom because I heard the story often while growing up.

The fiancé and I talked through our becoming partners in great detail. There was no proposal. It was an agreement.

I did it twice. One said no, one said yes. He was the good one, of course.

Sure, my last fiancé.

Nope. Not to my personal knowledge. Oh, wait. There was one. But it wasn’t a straight up proposal. She suggested they get married some day and he said it wasn’t happening.

I can think of 2 instances right off the bat, and I’ve heard lots of stories over the years.

My wife proposed to me.

I didn’t think my swseetheart was interested in marriage. After we’d been living together for about eight months she brought it up.
Coming up on twenty years in a couple weeks.

We were both thinking about it, she brought it up, but I proposed and presented “the ring” a few weeks later.

I went out with a woman for two years and moved in with her. Four years later, still unwed, we had dinner with her friend and the friend’s mother.
Out of the blue, Maude (the mother) says “isn’t it about time you two were married” and pulled a calendar off the wall, pointed to a date about three months away and says “you’re getting married on March 5th”.

She was wrong,
We waited until April 16th, end of tax season because I am an accountant.

That was 32 years ago.

SRM

^ well….wasn’t it fortunate someone took charge and “made it hap’n cap’n”

Yes, I did!

@OnlyMyOpinion did he she say yes?