Marriage is something that is constantly on the minds of women. It’s all we think about, from an early age. Some pressure their man to marry them, but why?

We all know why you are in a committed relationship. Most of us are in a relationship for the same reason. We are all looking for that security that can only come with a wonderful partner.

The comfort in knowing that someone has got your back at all times. The feeling like there is someone who would hold up the sky for you when everything comes tumbling down. The desire to be wanted and pampered. The wanting all these to never cease. And this is why people get married. A sort of permanence in the world of constant change.

This is why girls wear curtains as veils from an early age. This is why teenage girls give themselves to horny little men. This is why women “of the right age” cannot stop looking at all things bridal even if their time has yet to come.

This is why women pressure the man in their life to “pop the question”.

But not me. Not yet. Maybe I’m not “of the right age” yet and not feeling the pressure, yet. Maybe because my parents brought me up to value myself. Maybe because I am content and secure in the relationship I am in with Eli. He knows my value and I know that when “the time is right”, both of us will know it.

I believe all of my “maybe” are true.

I also believe in the Sacrament of Marriage.

But when the love of my life does get down on one knee and asks if I would be his wife, he will do it only on his own accord.