Okay, so you’re 36 and he’s 48 and you’ve been together for almost 10 years and he has promised marriage but keeps backing out. Time for you to wake up and smell the coffee: He’s never going to marry you. You need to stop fooling yourself. You’re hanging onto shreds of “proof” that you deserve a marriage to this guy instead of looking at the facts. The facts are that if a guy wants to marry you he will. Always trust a man’s behavior. No matter what he says, his behavior is what he means. I hope you don’t waste another day waiting for a marriage to this guy, that just isn’t going to happen.
If you want marriage, then look elsewhere. If you want things to continue as they are with him — dating without marriage — then stay. But don’t tell yourself lies for one more day. You deserve better than what [u]you’re[/u] doing to yourself. 😉