He brought it up after a month, on a surprise night out I had planned for his first time in Sydney (parkview room at The Marriot, three course dinner in the hotel restaurant, tickets to a show at the Opera House, followed by reservations at The Ivy). I had joked, when our cab dropped us at the Opera House and his jaw fell open in disbelief, "Don't worry, I'm not planning to propose!" We were sitting in the spa in our room, after getting back from the night's activities, and I caught him looking at me, and I asked him what was up, and he said, "I actually thought about proposing to you, tonight, but that would have seemed cheap, riding the coattails of the romantic evening you planned and paid for." When I laughed, and blew him a kiss, he said, quietly, "What would you say if I did?" I smiled, and replied, "I'd be very tempted to say yes, but that'd be crazy, so I'd tell you to ask me again in a year."
For context, I'm 27, he's 30, and we're both very grounded people, with rich individual romantic histories, and a mutual state of not even wanting a relationship any time soon before we met each other.
He said, "I know it's you. I don't know how I can already know, but I do. It scares me that I do, but I know." and I responded, "I feel the same. I know, and I know I shouldn't so soon. It's madness, but I'm quite certain."
I leaned across and gave him a kiss, and smiled and said, "But it would still be crazy, this early. Ask me in a year."
And he said, "Count on it," and kissed my hand. ^_^
Of course, now that he's back in the military for four years, I doubt that question is likely to come up again quite so soon. Still I believe that this is it, and that if we can make it through this LDR madness intact and strong, then he'll be the last man I'll ever kiss. That said, we won't talk about it again until it's a near-future destination, because he knows my thoughts on overtalking longterm plans any length of time before one actually intends to put them into action - I think it's bad luck. With the situation having changed so much, there's a lot of "ifs" in the near future.
So, we'll just see how we go.
For context, I'm 27, he's 30, and we're both very grounded people, with rich individual romantic histories, and a mutual state of not even wanting a relationship any time soon before we met each other.
He said, "I know it's you. I don't know how I can already know, but I do. It scares me that I do, but I know." and I responded, "I feel the same. I know, and I know I shouldn't so soon. It's madness, but I'm quite certain."
I leaned across and gave him a kiss, and smiled and said, "But it would still be crazy, this early. Ask me in a year."
And he said, "Count on it," and kissed my hand. ^_^
Of course, now that he's back in the military for four years, I doubt that question is likely to come up again quite so soon. Still I believe that this is it, and that if we can make it through this LDR madness intact and strong, then he'll be the last man I'll ever kiss. That said, we won't talk about it again until it's a near-future destination, because he knows my thoughts on overtalking longterm plans any length of time before one actually intends to put them into action - I think it's bad luck. With the situation having changed so much, there's a lot of "ifs" in the near future.
So, we'll just see how we go.
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