Picture this and put yourself in the situation: You find yourself loving someone very much and decide to propose. What are you going to say?

This is for the men. What exactly will you say to convince her you really love her? Forget the SETTING and WHERE exactly you have chosen to propose. I mean, that is a nice consideration too, but in my downtime of thinking about such a situation I’ve come to terms that what matters the most to me about the gestures if a proposal is made is what they choose to SAY.

You say you love me? Ok. But tell me why. What exactly made you make the decision to ask me to marry you?

So what would you say to your girlfriend? I’m curious to see the variation of answers.

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PirateMonkeyCabinet · 36-40, M

I have no intentions of ever getting married, but assuming for whatever reason I change my mind or something...:

There would be no fancy words, convoluted messages or reasoning. If, by the time I propose, I haven't already proven my love then either I haven't done my part well enough or she isn't really interested in me. If I haven't already convinced her by all the small day-to-day things I'd be doing for her, then she is not the one for me, nor I the one for her.

So perhaps I would find a special setting to propose to her, one that has symbolic value of some sort, but it would probably just be a fairly straight forward "I love you..." *fiddle in pockets to get ring* "...will you marry me?" kind of thing.