article_snippet: Staying with someone who’s using you as a stop-gap until their ‘true’ love comes along isn’t healthy; staying with someone who loves you but doesn’t want to get married for justifiable reasons is entirely different.
article_snippet: If you can’t sit down and have an open, honest discussion with someone you love about something that is important to you, you shouldn’t be marrying you ca in the first place.
article_snippet: If a partner refuses to even talk through the topic, a partner shows a distinct lack of interest in you and your feelings which isn’t a great indicator for a healthy, long-term relationship.
article_snippet: Offer up some alternatives - a registry office, garden party with a few friends, just the two of you away somewhere, writing your own vows instead of repeating words that might mean nothing to them - and see what response you get.
article_snippet: Don’t confuse marriage with commitment.
article_snippet: Plenty of couples are committed to each other without being married and being married doesn’t ensure your partner will be committed (or faithful).
article_snippet: If they’ll happily chat about things like buying houses, planning holidays, looking after parents in later life and other things that will tie you together for an awfully long time, they have a problem with marriage, not committing to you and your relationship.
article_snippet: If your partner clearly loves you, is committed for life but just doesn’t want to get married, does it really matter?
article_snippet: If you’re suggesting marriage way earlier than most people and your partner’s baulking at the idea, this may actually mean they’re more serious about you, than you are they.
highlights_snippet: Advises to ask partner why partner are not interested in commitment .
  