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Anonymous asked in Family & RelationshipsSingles & Dating · 8 years ago

My boyfriend doesn't want to move forward?

I love him, but I feel like all he wants is to have fun, which is fine, but he parties almost every weekend, he still has his lip ring, he wears ripped jeans below his bum. I recently found out that he doesn't want kids and has no plans to get married any time soon or even at all. I'm 24 and he's 25, I used to think that I would be married and almost close to having kids at this age. I have no idea what to do, I love him and can't imagine my life without him, but I've always wanted to be a mom and I don't want to be one of those 40-year-old (no offense) walking down the aisle for the first time. I know it's not a money problem because we both do well at our jobs and can each afford an apartment in the city. Before him, I dated a guy that wanted to settle down, but I broke it off so that I could get back together with my current boyfriend. I don't want to pressure him into proposing or trap him into a pregnancy because I don't want us to end up being one of those resentful couples, but all I want is to have a family with him. What do I do?

Update:

We dated two years ago for two years and we got back together a year ago

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  • 8 years ago
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    You dropped the future you wanted to have the present you wanted, now you don't want it.

    You knew what current bf was when you went back with him, move on and stop resenting him for being what he's always been.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    3 years is the typical time from the start of a relationship to being engaged. If that hasn't happened for you maybe its time to move on. I'm not saying to give him an ultimatum or anything like that, just that normally its the time it takes for each of you to figure out if you are "the one" for each other. And once that has been determined there is no real reason to not "pop the question" You don't say how long you have been a couple so this is just food for thought... so you aren't one of those "40-year-olds walking down the aisle for the first time".

  • 8 years ago

    Love isn't always the answer. You may love him, but you certainly can't live with him, unless you give up, all you hold dear to your heart. Marriage and Children and a home.

    Not to much to ask, for your future happiness.

    As he's declared his feelings towards marriage and children and is unlikely to change them, to suit you. Be honest, at 25 years old, he's acting like some immature teenager with the lip ring and those drooping jeans. ( I thought there time had passed, much like those backwards baseball hats.)

    So you have a choice to make, either give up, becoming a wife and mother, and just end up, as some partying girlfriend. Or break up, and find a guy, who shares your vision of your futures together.

    You know they are out there, having just left one of them, for what you have now.

    To my mind you made a big mistake, but that doesn't mean, you have to live with that mistake.

    It's time to do some deep soul searching and do what is right for your present and future happiness.

    Its time to leave him and move on. I know that easier said than done, but it's your dream, and if you want it to be more than just a dream, you need to take action.

  • 8 years ago

    This is around the sort of age you should be asking each other what your serious plans for are in life. If his is not to have kids, if he really does want to behave like one for the rest of his life then you need to give up. Why waste years of your life trying to change him or hoping he will change when he promises no hope of doing so? You will resent him for it. You will be held back all your life. You need to have a serious talk with him and tell him that you are a grown woman with your own expectations in a relationship and wants in life. If his are incompatible with yours then you don't have a relationship, you have a dream that will be well and truly over when you wake up and realise that you have wasted your life on a man who will never give you what you want. It's not too late to find another who wants the same as you do, but it will be too late if you stay with this man any longer.

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  • 8 years ago

    you need to give him an ultimatum, tell him either he needs to calm his ways and start to get serious about life, or you leave him. You want more from life than he does, and if he doesn't want that, then he is not a good choice for your life style. it might suck if you actually do leave him, but stick to your guns and give him the ultimatum because it is unfair to you that you have to deal with his childish ways. He's 25 and he's partying like somebody from my generation (i'm a first year college student) that is ridiculous. Tell him to be an adult or to take his stuff from your apartment and leave. If he loves you, he will change his ways, if he doesn't, then it was better that you left him. Good luck.

  • 8 years ago

    Talk to him calmly and compromise. If he still won't resist, follow you heart. It's really up to you. You either go with him, or move on. I hope you make the right choice! :)

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Why don't you just date him. Why do you have to marry ? Of he makes you happy, you shouldn't need any kind of title

  • 8 years ago

    go back to the man who wanted to marry you , your better off with him .

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Give him time and dont pressure him

  • 8 years ago

    Tell him he can either grow up or break up.

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