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My SO told me that he wanted to take me ring shopping soon . . . about a month ago. I've brought it up once or twice, and everytime he says he wants to go 'sometime soon'. I'm getting annoyed because he specifically said that he wanted to take me soon so that I have no idea when he's actually going to propose. This whole conversation was intitiated by him, not me.

He knows I have the itch, and I know that I've got probably another year of waiting. I felt like this was a good compromise, so that I know that he's thinking about it and I feel more involved in the process. He can be kind of a procrastinator and I'll be dissapointed if he's suddenly interested again next January because I know it'll be coming.

Is it reasonable for me to ask him to set a specific time that we'll go ring shopping by? I'm not asking for down to the day, just by the end of June (for example). I wouldn't be asking or expecting it, but it was his idea. I feel like it would be okay for me to ask him to not joke around about it if he isn't serious, because everytime I've asked him when we're going it's because he's joked about it.

I don't know what to do, any advice bees?

@love108 That's a good idea, I've tried that but I think I need to be more firm about it when he tries to say 'soon'. I just need to figure out how to bring it up. Thank you!

Just to clarify, when I say ring shopping I mean ring window shopping. I don't expect him to buy one anytime soon, I just want to make sure he knows my size and what I like.

It's not unreasonable for you to have a timeline. He's essentially leading you on, by saying he'll take you and then having no intention of doing so. I wonder if he's only saying it to keep you happy and stop you asking?

You need to tell him how you're feeling. He needs to tell you, no BS, how he's feeling, so you can both figure out a timeline and make sure you're both still on the same page in regards to enegement/marriage.

I swear I wrote most of your post! About a month ago my SO was like I'll take you if you don't get too excited.  HAHA of course I would be but I promised I wouldn't.  I guess he legitimately forgot about it because I mentioned it last week that "you said you would take me" and he didn't remember right away.  Well yesterday he says wanna go to the mall soon and look at "stuff"? Guys are funny...  Maybe if you go somewhere like the mall where the opportunity could just present itself without you buggin him it would help! I would say be patient a little while longer :)  It'll come!

Thank you everyone! I think I'll try to be patient for a little while longer and then just set it up myself. We've talked and talked at this point, I think I need to show that I'm willing to take a little action.