Engaged for about a year, wanted to move things along so talked about looking at houses with her because I was living in an apartment and she was still with her parents in a mobile home, we're both Christian so none of that before marriage stuff. She flipped out, talked about how getting a mortgage was a 'millstone around my neck', told me that we needed a stable income and a college degree before we get a house or get married. I asked her why she wasn't going to college or currently employed if that was the requirements for marriage. She hung up, refused all further calls. Her mother invited me over for dinner to try to work things out, which resulted in her running off with her friend and refusing to meet with me for any kind of resolution. I told her that I'd be talking to pastor about setting us up with marriage counseling if this was an issue, and she told me that I had no right to 'lock her out of church' and 'confine [her] to her home', despite the fact that I was trying to get her out of the shitty mobile home by getting a house and getting married. After about a week of no contact and her not answering her phone short of for five minutes where she screamed at me for 'rushing' her into a confrontation, I told her that I didn't want to be married with someone who couldn't handle basic conflict resolution skills and who showed no motivation to reach their own goals.

Of course there's always more backstory and there's two sides to everything. Maybe I moved too quickly, maybe I pushed too hard, or maybe she just liked the idea of marriage but not the actual process of it and was simply immature. The end result is the same, got myself my own house anyways and I got a good joke out of it.

"Once got a house for my fiancé. Best trade I ever made."