IMPORTANT ADDITION:
Here is a very important I failed to mention above.
I said above that I want to marry her, but not if she would like to marry me. I do understand and respect her choice of marriage. I may not be her type, becaise 1. I am over 10 years older, 2. I am shorter than her and 3. We are of different races. These points don’t matter to me, but I would respect her choice of these or anything else that matters to her.
So if I am open to the possibility that she might not be marring me, then why am I still sticking around?
This is because, I really really care about her and love her selflessly, really want to get her out of the situations she is in, get her life back on a decent track. Support her like her father would have, her mother would have, maybe a brother would have or like a Boy Friend. Support her all the way thru her education, her life after that and all the way to finally where I would walk her down the aisle into the arms of a man she wants to marry.
Then, and only then will I let go of her.