Here's the opinion of a man nearly sixty years old... Maybe he loves you and is afraid that marriage will change the relationship and doesn't wantto lose you. When I was in High School, I had a very good friend who was a girl. I always thought I should ask her out for a date. Years later she told me she wondered why I didn't. The reason was that I really loved her as a person and knew that dating would have to end in a bad situation and I loved her enough that I didn't want to lose what I had.
Years later, I had loved other girls but could not get over the fact that 50% of marriages were ending in divorce and I didn't want to go through that especially with children. As it turned out, I married the girl who got pregnant first. We made it 13 years but alas, most probably due to my faults, the marriage didn't last. That runined the most important relationship odf muy life, that of my son's. We are estranged despite my best efforts... One can beg for only so long.
Her's the silver lining... In my forties, I met the girl of my dreams. I asked her to marry me and twenty years later we are not only lovers and confidants but best friends. I consider myself to be luck. Why did I ask her... because I never wanted to live without her! And we had both been previously married and both had learned valuable lessons which have helped strengthen our love and relationship.
Good Luck... it's a tough decision to get married knowing the statistics are overwhelmingly against life-long success!
