We’re committed to one another; it’s just a matter of timing. However, I feel that this is nobody’s business but our own.
Miss Manners advises a reader who is tired of people asking her when she and her boyfriend are going to get hitched.
I’m from the South, where relationships that begin in college carry the expectation of an immediate marriage proposal upon graduation. I’m getting very tired of deflecting distant relatives and acquaintances who keep asking , “When are you and X getting engaged?”
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