Things I’ve learned: When someone starts a sentence with “You better sit down,” you better sit down. Along those lines, I stumbled upon the following at Simplythebestman.com
“I think it’s time we talked about our future…”
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| China’s Ring of Life (from wordlesstech.com) |
That last entry reminded me of a time that I actually heard that line. Back in my bachelor days, I’d been dating a young lady for sometime. We’d been traveling alot, having fun, I enjoyed her company and things were good. A workmate of mine, Ben, asked me one day if I had been confronted with the “ring talk” from her. I laughed and told Ben that we had not had any such discussions and that there wouldn’t be any since I never planned on sailing on that boat again. (Things change right?) Ben chided me and said, “Careful. Sooner or later they want a ring.”
That very evening after Ben and I had had that discussion at work, my lady friend and I were sitting on the beach, watching the sunset when she turned to me and said out of the blue “We need to talk about our future. I want a ring.” Immediately, I laughed, which in retrospect probably wasn’t the best of responses at that point in the conversation as it seemed to rile her up. I quickly tried to explain my conversation with Ben earlier in the day and how surprised I was that she was now bringing it up.
We discussed it some more but after my intentions, or lack of I should say, came to light, we (she) let it drop. However, we split up shortly afterwards.