Weddingbee boards

Hello ladies, I've been lurking here for several months and I think it's time to come out of hiding! I'm 24 and in my final year of law school; my significant other is 29 and a computer engineer. We've been dating for over 3 years now, living together for one, and have been "negotiating the merger" as I call it for basically all of 2009. Well, he recently decided it was time to give himself a deadline and set Mar. 1, 2010 as his proposal deadline (4 more months!!!!). I guess that makes me an "official" waiting bee.

Anyway, I am so happy to have found this board because it has really kept me sane for the last few months. Hopefully it will help me hold out just a little while longer! I'm pretty sure he won't do it over the holidays or substantially earlier than the deadline, so it may be rough! I'm going to have to join the Christmas challenge and probably extend it as well, I suppose.

Thanks so much ladies! Jingle96, I really hope he does do it sooner, but I just don't think he will! He makes all of his decisions very deliberately and thoroughly, thinking through every possibility and researching everything to death. He will stand in the cereal aisle for 10 minutes with a box in each hand trying to decide which one to buy! I know he has been reading articles about marriage prep and raising children to "get ready" to propose. He even went away for a business trip with my copy of "His Cold Feet" to read! So I think he's still reading up and preparing himself to do it. He is very adamant about never wanting to have a divorce, which I completely agree with, so he feels like he has to think everything through very carefully before getting engaged to make it less likely that problems will arise later. (If only life were that easy, right??)

Before he met me, he'd always said he wasn't going to get married until he was 35. Well, guess what, he met me when he was 25, and no way was I going to wait 10 years! I really really really hope he doesn't make me wait until March, but just knowing how he is, I feel like it will take the whole 4 months! Does anyone else have a guy like this??