My boyfriend and I just had our one year anniversary two days ago. How long is it typical to wait before I should start to anticipate and/or expect a marriage proposal? I'm not pushing him, and I'm not following a strict dating pattern, I'm just curious of what I should expect.

There's no such thing as typical. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" /> Some people meet/start dating and are married in a few months. Others date for years before getting engaged. My husband and I dated for six years before he proposed. Some of it may depend on your situation (for example, are either of you in school); some of it will just be maturity level and personal readiness for marriage (you don't say your ages). In my case, my guy loved me, and he didn't want to be with anyone else, he just for whatever reasons was not ready to be married. Looking back on our situation and on ourselves, it was the right thing to do for us to wait so long. At the time I would have liked to have gotten married sooner, but now I think it would've been a mistake.

So anyway, that's a really long-winded answer to your question! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />