Redditors who refused a marriage proposal, why and what was the aftermath like?

I've turned down an offer and had one turned down. The one I had turned down...well it was a NYE party and we'd been together a little under a year and I was pretty damn sure she was the one. It was a super awkward next hour while she turned it down crying all the while (I had some tears in there as well). 4 years later we ended things when she decided she'd had enough of my indecision on her and I.

Might have gone differently if I had just admitted how hurt and angry I was from that night. Instead she got married last year and I have regretted my anger ever since.

The one I turned down the bitch was straight cray. We met after a night of drinking and had a great few weeks of fun. It was like life gave me a new best friend with lady parts. And then all of a sudden she starts talking about me moving in. Now I wasn't really opposed to it since we had been staying days at a time at each others place, but I was put off by how quick it was going. Well lease was up soon anyway so I figured why the hell not. So the first morning comes along and I'm thinking along the lines of getting ready for work, but she wants to celebrate our first morning living together. I'm not one to turn down pre work sex so I start going on about the merits of couch sex and when I look at the doorway she's standing in she gets a really nervous look on her face and blurted out "IWANNAGITMARRIED" which I took as a joke at first until she started towards me holding a ring out. I told her to hold onto it and see where we were in 6 months. We didn't make it 6 days. I got an email while I was at work that said I could stay at our place till the end of the month and then she would be subletting it out while she went to Canada to find herself. I haven't heard from her in almost 3 years now. We didn't have any mutual friends and I was blocked on social media the same day I got the email so I have no idea how her trip to Canada went, but every year on the day I got that email I sit down with some Canadian whisky and think about her.

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