This man’s proposal didn’t at all go the way he had planned.
When you ask someone to marry you, you hope they’ll say yes. After all, it’s something you only ask when you’re at a point in your relationship where marriage is the next logical step, so provided you don’t royally butcher the proposal, your partner should be on board with saying yes.
One man, however, has seemingly proven that even if someone does say yes when you pop the question – that doesn’t mean they’re thrilled with the way you asked. What’s more, that doesn’t mean they can’t take it back a few minutes later, which is exactly what happened when he asked his girlfriend to marry him.
In a post on Reddit, the man explained he’s been with his girlfriend for two years, and he decided to propose when they were away on holiday. He got down on one knee on their hotel balcony with a “great view”, and said his girlfriend had actually chosen the ring herself a few months prior so she “knew it was coming”.
And while she was initially thrilled by the proposal and enthusiastically said yes, her opinion changed “10 minutes later” when she asked him whether she’d spoken to her mum about getting her blessing.
He wrote: “I said I didn’t get an opportunity to visit in person, the ring only arrived a few days before the holiday, so I called her and asked for her blessing over the phone which her mother gave.
“This then led to my girlfriend spending the rest of the day hysterically crying and giving out to me saying I should have met her mother in person (just to be fair, she did mention I do it in person before) but it was so bad she ended up giving me the ring back and said to do it again another time. The following few days were the same, crying and giving out to me basically for not doing it right.”
The man said he’s now considering telling his girlfriend he doesn’t think he can propose again after being humiliated and hurt by her refusal. But his partner is “obsessed with getting married” so he believes she would “leave” him if he refused to ask for a second time.
Commenters on the post were baffled by the woman’s response, with many saying she “ruined” the proposal herself with the way she acted over something “incredibly trivial”.
One person said: “You need to seriously have a conversation with yourself about how you want the rest of your life to look.” While another added: “She is 34 and acting like a child. You need to leave her. This is ridiculous. Do you want to live like this the rest of your life? She will do this every time she does not get her way.”