My last blog post was 7 months ago... and as you can see... no ring yet. Seriously? Seriously.
We always
think there are so many signs. You're approaching a relationship milestone or a
special vacation. Marriage is and has been a topic of conversation. He closes
his laptop when you get home and hides his mail. He runs out and doesn't say
where he's gone. You're going on a romantic and magical trip together (to California wine
country!), the first trip he's ever planned. He promises it will be full of "great
things."
When
he looks at you so earnestly and you lean in and he starts talking about how
much he loves you instead turns into a conversation about how he's falling
behind in his "plan." And then the jewelry box, that little jewelry box,
the one that is supposed to hold a diamond engagement ring -- instead holds a
diamond necklace.
And whatever
wooing and romance that may have happened over the weekend is clouded in dismay
and heartache that you are not coming home with a sparkly bauble on your finger.
No
matter how many poems or expensive meals or presents or tender looks
there are between now and then, sadly, I know they aren't going to mean
as much until I have that ring. Until I have that promise and commitment
and physical proof that this relationship is going somewhere. Put your
money where your mouth is brotha.
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| This is a real windowfront from a jewelry store in Napa. Too good not to snap. |
