“Everyone around me either gasped or got this really awkward look on their faces.”
Deciding to propose to someone takes a lot of courage.
So when the S.O.
says no, it can be devasting.
“, over 14 thousand people provided their stories.
Here’s what some of them had to say:
1.
It was the topic of discussion almost every day that year.
He ended up moving schools at the end of the year.”
“She was graduating with her master’s; I still had two years left for my PhD.
I said, ‘No problem.’
She moved to her job down inNew Jersey.
The next I heard of her, she was engaged to another guy I knew.
I took that as ‘another bullet dodged, another life lesson learned.'”
u/Junkyard_DrCrash
3.
“It was not my own experience, but I was in the restaurant when a failed proposal happened.
She comes back, and the drinks are brought.
She refuses the drink much to his dismay but doesnt get the hint.”
“My mom’s boyfriend proposed to her three months into dating.
He accepted her no but said he wouldn’t ask again, and he hasn’t.
They’ve been together for 25+ years now and have never married.”
u/ColdFIREBaker
5.
“We’d been joking around about it for months.
I’d ask sarcastically in the most un-romantic way.
She’d say no, we’d laugh and move on with our day.
She changed her tune shit quickly when she actually looked and saw me holding the ring.
We’ve been married for 17 years now.
We’re still married.”
u/ProfessorLake
“She did the magic eight ball ‘Ask Again Later.’
u/Pheighthe
7.
“I got everything ready, and she said, ‘No, at least not right now.’
And it sorta muted the rest of the weekend.
Several people heard I was gonna ask and congratulated me the next week.
It was surreal to inform them that she said no.
It should have been a wake-up call to end it there, but neither of us wanted to.
We were our first everything, and we had a lot of history.
“My friend proposed once, but she said no.
It was very early in their relationship.
She said she only feels comfortable marrying him if he bought a house first.
Its a weird waiting game for both of them.”
u/watertrashsf
9.
“We were high school sweethearts, off and on again through college and after.
Nine years in total.
The ring stayed in the bag, and I tried to enjoy the awkward trip.
I was pretty devastated.
She got married to someone about six months after that (I know).
A few years later, I met someone with whom I understood what a relationship should be.
I traded in the original ring and have been married for 19 years now.
“We dated for three years.
He was, I thought, the love of my life.
he said, ‘We need to break up.’
He met someone else.
They have been married for two years, and it turns out Im into women.
We DO NOT speak, but I wish him the best.”
u/Heauxdessa
11.
It ruined the moment for the guy, and he never asked.
Oops, I ruined New Year’s Eve 1991 for Kevin.”
We had… too many conversations about the seriousness of our relationship.
Each time, she would say, ‘Why can’t you just get over it?’
And I didn’t want to do it prematurely.
Everything worked out well, though.
u/letmehowl
13.
The day after Christmas, we saw a magic show.
“I found out she had been dating a friend I had helped her to meet.
Later, he proposed to her in a restaurant where a buddy and I had gone to eat.
I ended up hearing the restaurant clap and whoop for them.
Fortunately, we were on the other side of the restaurant, and that was the extent of it.
Well, until they passed me on the highway when I was driving home.
Second worst coincidence ever.
It was like having someone step on your broken foot.
As for me, I got married a lot later.
u/ragnarok62
15.
“I realized ten seconds later that she actually said, ‘You know I will.’
And she’s just really quiet when she talks.”
