What do you do when the man your with wants to spend the rest of his life with you, but doesn't believe in marriage?

Asked by missjena (918) September 8th, 2010 from iPhone

My boyfriend and I are madly in love. Our chemistry for eachother is off the charts. We are considerate of eachothers feelings and have so much fun together. All we do is laugh!!! I’m a hopeless romantic. I believe in forever lasting marriages and long happy marriages. He aways says how he wants to be together for the rest of his life but doesn’t believe in marriage. For those of you who will say respect his decision or dump him, that’s not the discussion I’m looking to bring up. I’d like to know what you’d do to convince him how sacred and wonderful marriage is and that it’s not just a piece of paper as he says. Any good points I can make to him? Look, I know when it comes down to it he’d marry me. I don’t want him
to marry me because he thinks that’s what I want. I want him to marry me because he wants to and sees marriage as a positive thing. Not just a statistic of divorce rates.