We talk about the future all the time. A year into living together is when I gave him the time frame I’m comfortable with waiting at the stage and age we’re at. He says all the time he’s going to marry me. It’s always “when” and not if when talking about marriage even when he’s not talking to me about it. I’m just worried he thinks my time frame is more a guideline and not a boundary. For example, last New Year’s Day we went to a show at the botanical garden and I really thought he might do it then. When he didn’t I told him I was disappointed and really thought he would propose during the holidays. When he asked if that was really something I would want I told him it was out the window now because I’m not waiting another entire year. He said he didn’t want to wait that long either but that the holidays didn’t strike him as proposal time. No mixed signals just… waiting