56 Women Who Rejected Proposals — And Their Jaw-Dropping Reasons Will Change How You See Love Forever
She thought he was joking but kind of suspected he wasn’t, asked him if he was crazy in the very loud, hard to be offended-by-it way she has, said it’s too soon but, you know, feel free to ask again later. My dad kept up his joking tone when he said he wouldn’t ask again, hence why my mom thought he was just kidding when he wouldn’t ask again. It wasn’t at all framed like an ultimatum, but he really enjoyed reminding my mom of the fact that he’d already asked her to marry him whenever she nagged him about when he was going to get around to proposing.
I proposed after 3ish years of dating and one year of living together and she said no. I was offering her my great-grandparents wedding ring. That was Friday night. By Sunday night, after a trip to her parents, she came back and told me that she was gay. That was 22 years ago.
Since then I have been married for 16 years to the next woman I dated. My wife has the wedding ring that I offered to my ex. The gay girlfriend has been with her partner for nearly 22 years. I have a daughter and they have a girl and a boy. I love them and they are just the best people ever. This is a bullet we both dodged.
Proposed to Girlfriend after she got off work on a Monday with her favorite meal prepared, and the apartment all lit with candles, rose petals on the floor after having had a special weekend together. (she is shy and promised violence if proposed to in public)
She said No no no! No! NO! when i asked her to marry me as she came in the door to our apartment.
She worked in the medical field and had puke all over her…..
She showered and said yes.
I was proposed to and said no.
After 4 weeks of dating he got down on his knee with a HUGE diamond ring and said a huge speech along the lines of “when you know you know. Will you marry me?”
Since i barely knew the guy i flat out said no followed by “sorry…are you okay?”
He didn’t speak to me for the rest of the night and then when he dropped me home i told my roomate about it. As i was telling her about it i get a text from him – YES A TEXT – saying “you’ve broken my heart. I never want to see you again. Goodbye. I love you.”
We were both 22 at the time.
Not my story but the best one I’ve ever heard.
My friend’s parents met at a bar down the shore. Her dad was crazy about her mom, but it was unrequited. She slept with him anyway, just a one night stand, and ignored him after that. Until she found out she was pregnant.
He was over the moon and she was intent on having the baby. He tried to be with her, but she consistently refused him. Proposed to her several times, ending in eye rolls and exasperated “no”‘s from her each time.
After 9 months, she went into labor and let him come with her into the delivery room. Just her and this guy who had been begging her to marry him. A few hours into labor, the doctors started to notice something was wrong. The baby’s heartbeat was slowing rapidly.
The mother started to panic, but the father stayed calm. He stayed with her and communicated information from the doctors. But there was little anyone could do. She delivered a stillborn.
After everything happened, my friends mom realized she had found her soulmate. They finally got together and are still married to this day.
I’m the denier.
I’d been dating this girl for 6 months, and it was going pretty well. We hardly ever fought, but when we did it was hard for us to get back to normal.
At a good point, she said “I feel like I should pop the question”. I have absolutely no poker face, and she instantly saw that I wasn’t on board. As a child of the 80’s, ALL of my friends had parents who’d divorced, and I’d made an oath to myself that I was just going to be married once. I liked this girl a lot, but I wasn’t convinced yet that what we had was going to last forever.
So, we stayed together, went to couples counseling, and learned how to fight. It sounds strange, but I can’t tell you how effective it was. We learned that my conflict pattern is to constantly work on a problem until it’s solved, where her pattern is to blow off steam over time. The result was that I would keep conversations going when we fought, and would basically chase her around keeping her mad and blocking her attempts at breaking off to cool down. I learned to just let her be mad, and check back in later, and she learned to say “I just need to be by myself for a bit”. It worked.
Our ‘good relationship with rough fights’ turned into ‘great relationship with mature, low drama fights’. Conflicts that used to hang a dark cloud over the house for days were now resolved in hours. At that point I felt comfortable enough to say yes to a year long engagement.
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