I have reached the period in my life where engagement has started to spread like the swine flu.  I am not engaged and have never been married, so the idea that all of my friends happen to be receiving proposals of marriage from their boyfriends at the same time is a little bit of a mystery to me.  Some of the couples getting engaged have been dating since the beginning of college, and some have barely been dating for a year, but yet here they are now suddenly at the same stage in their relationship.  What changes occur in our …read more

What a great way to express your feelings, yeah? I found it real sweet. I wonder if I could ever do the same thing. Can you?
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So, okay. You’ve scored a date with Miss She’s-My-Future-Wife. Or perhaps you’re planning to pop the question. Or celebrating your 50th wedding anniversary. What do you do next? Of course, you’d want to sweep her off her feet by concoting something romantic, something special, something — grand.
Grand being the operative word, might I suggest the following restaurants then?
Blogger note: You have got to have dough more than the average joe. Teehee.
Top 10 of the World’s Most Expensive Restaurants

Aragawa in Tokyo, Japan
Arpege in Paris, France
Eigensinn Farm in Toronto, Canada
Sketch – The Lecture Room and Library in London, England
Petermann’s Kunststuben in …read more

A reader would like to know – “How long should a couple date before getting engaged?”
Over the years I’ve had several relationships. Some resulted in engagements – yes, there have been a few.
For me, an engagement wasn’t so much a marriage proposal, but more of a promise to explore an exclusive relationship with one man. That ring on my finger was more a symbol to the world that I was dedicated to one relationship. If the relationship survived a period of exclusivity, I would then consider marriage. However, I found that within the first year …read more