stans parents take turns talking to me about the M word. it vacillates between friendly conversation and deadly confrontation depending on who talks to me and the level of their frustration. today was one of them. stans mom and i were alone in the house and she came into his room to make me promise her to find time to talk to stan about the M word. it was quite heart wrenching to hear it all over again and to add icing to the cake, she started tearing up and hugged me.
what's a girl to do?
OPTION 1
i do what they say and do the dirty work. it is quite tempting. i'll get to the end of the story quicker. scheming and planning will be involved and maybe i'll get what i want and maybe in a year we'll get married but will i ever know if this is what he wanted? maybe i'll be elated being engaged for a while but sooner or later reality will set in and maybe i'll have nagging doubts about whether he was just being a decent guy and rolling over to what i wanted because i wanted it badly enough to ask.
OPTION 2
tough it out and wait. maybe this will take forever and i know i will have to undergo more torturous talks. even worse, i might find out the long and arduous way that i've waited for nothing. the talks were cute and flattering at first but 3 years down the road, it really makes you think about why he hasn't yet and the longer it takes, the more doubts start to form and the bleaker the future looks.
so what now... looks like i'm stuck between a rock and a hard place.
1 comment:
You are indeed stuck between a rock and a hard place. Maybe you can kindly suggest to his parents that THEY talk to THEIR son about it? Sheesh... parents... In any case, my client / friend Judith was with Michael for 8 YEARS before he finally popped the question. She was 31 when she got married, I think. So maybe a little patience just might do the trick eventually.
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