It's tough enough to kick up a stink in private actually. i accepted a proposal of marriage once because tbh the alternative is usually to say "this relationship is going nowhere" (neither of us had particular ethical objections to marriage of the type you have) and I wasn't ready to say that. This is why I horribly cynically often guess a sudden proposal is a sign the relationship is going downhill, and the partner who is scared is trying to nail it down tight(and sadly i've often been right.) No I am not much of a romantic:-)
(I'm also fairly certain that I present, in initial relationships stages, as unconventional enough that it scares off the romantically inclined types. The one time it didn't was a relationship disaster...)
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Hard enough keeping my perky idealism alive without bringing personal relationships into it.
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