Ravenne
Rough_Rock
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Yaaay!! Not me, but my little cousin proposed to his girlfriend and I'm so incredibly excited and I don't want to bore everyone around me by talking about how much I'm so happy that she's gonna be coming to Thanksgiving and Christmas every year now!! LOL.
They're young, but I've never seen him so happy with someone. They've been dating for around 1.5 years, they're both getting started in their careers. For a while, the family was concerned about my cousin (he was making some bad decisions regarding drugs/alcohol/peer groups. We think it was because me and his big sister moved away for college. We were all raised together and suddenly he was alone), but as soon as he met this girl, he did a complete 180. Now he's holding a solid job, has finally moved out of his parents' house and seems just in general more like the happy person we knew before the big mess started.
I don't feel comfortable posting a photo of her ring since it's not mine and I don't want my family to know I'm a member of a forum devoted to expensive sparklies and on a LIW list.. LOL. But it's a 3 stone with ovals. Yellow gold. Just looking at it, I'd guess it's somewhere between .5-.75 tcw. He may have gone to a mall store for it, but I'm hoping he went to one of the privately owned jewelers in my hometown. There's several. I really wish he'd asked me for help/advise, but he didn't tell anyone he was planning on proposing (to my knowledge). Oh well. And she seems ecstatic with it, so that's what matters.
Some part of me resembles a green-eyed monster. He's 3 years younger than I am (she's a year younger than him) and they've been dating for less than half the time that my BF and I have been together. And my other cousin (his big sister who is exactly a week younger than me and is the closest thing I've ever had to a sister) got married last summer. She and her husband met right before I met J. I just keep telling myself that their situation is simpler than ours and they're working on their own timeline, just like we're working on ours. I know our time will come, but it did sting for half a second when I found out. Not that I let them know that and definitely not J. Beside this post, the only reaction I've had is excitement and happiness. Which is absolutely genuine. The part of me that's jealous probably amounts to about 4% of my feelings regarding this news. I'm so completely happy for them, I'm just suppressing that side of me that wants to pout. But I had to let it out somewhere where I won't be told off for it.
Ah well, c'est la vie, n'est pas?
My mother didn't really help. I called her as soon as I got off work and told her and the first words out of her mouth were "Well, now it's just you and J!" "Yes, yes, we're working on it."
Then we started talking about them and that helped, but geez Mom.. really?!
They're young, but I've never seen him so happy with someone. They've been dating for around 1.5 years, they're both getting started in their careers. For a while, the family was concerned about my cousin (he was making some bad decisions regarding drugs/alcohol/peer groups. We think it was because me and his big sister moved away for college. We were all raised together and suddenly he was alone), but as soon as he met this girl, he did a complete 180. Now he's holding a solid job, has finally moved out of his parents' house and seems just in general more like the happy person we knew before the big mess started.
I don't feel comfortable posting a photo of her ring since it's not mine and I don't want my family to know I'm a member of a forum devoted to expensive sparklies and on a LIW list.. LOL. But it's a 3 stone with ovals. Yellow gold. Just looking at it, I'd guess it's somewhere between .5-.75 tcw. He may have gone to a mall store for it, but I'm hoping he went to one of the privately owned jewelers in my hometown. There's several. I really wish he'd asked me for help/advise, but he didn't tell anyone he was planning on proposing (to my knowledge). Oh well. And she seems ecstatic with it, so that's what matters.
Some part of me resembles a green-eyed monster. He's 3 years younger than I am (she's a year younger than him) and they've been dating for less than half the time that my BF and I have been together. And my other cousin (his big sister who is exactly a week younger than me and is the closest thing I've ever had to a sister) got married last summer. She and her husband met right before I met J. I just keep telling myself that their situation is simpler than ours and they're working on their own timeline, just like we're working on ours. I know our time will come, but it did sting for half a second when I found out. Not that I let them know that and definitely not J. Beside this post, the only reaction I've had is excitement and happiness. Which is absolutely genuine. The part of me that's jealous probably amounts to about 4% of my feelings regarding this news. I'm so completely happy for them, I'm just suppressing that side of me that wants to pout. But I had to let it out somewhere where I won't be told off for it.
Ah well, c'est la vie, n'est pas?
My mother didn't really help. I called her as soon as I got off work and told her and the first words out of her mouth were "Well, now it's just you and J!" "Yes, yes, we're working on it."
Then we started talking about them and that helped, but geez Mom.. really?!
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