'I proposed to my girlfriend at her mum's funeral - it felt like the right time'
A man has been shamed for allegedly proposing to his girlfriend at her mum's funeral after realising "life is too short". The 25-year-old explained how his girlfriend's mum didn't approve of him dating her daughter due to their five-year age gap.
Despite this, he dated her for two years before deciding to pop the question surrounded by her grieving family and friends. Sharing his admission on Reddit, he said: "I had been planning on proposing to her for quite some time now and I could never really figure out what the right time really was.
"No matter where we went together, the ring I bought was always in my pocket in hopes that the right moment would just happen, it never did and I think that was because I knew how her mother felt towards me. It was obvious that her mother didn't approve of me due to our small age gap and she had never kept her dislike for me a secret, so there was no way in hell that she would end up approving us getting married."
Her mum was sadly diagnosed with stage-four breast cancer - and spent her final weeks with her family by her side. He added. "Whenever I was standing over her casket with my girlfriend hanging onto my arm, I looked down at her mother and thought to myself 'This is it, I'm going to ask her today'.
"Looking back at it now maybe it wasn't. But that's what I thought and let myself wait until we weren't still in the direct presence of her mum's body, so I waited patiently until we got to the wake that was at our house. A couple of hours into the wake, I finally took my girlfriend aside and said my prepared speech that was in my head since the moment I decided I wanted her to be my wife, then I got down on one knee and asked if she wanted to marry me."
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Outraged, his grieving girlfriend turned down his proposal, condemning him for his insensitive timing. "I looked at her confused, not really processing what was wrong with the moment," he said. "If anything this could of been a metaphor of sorts, right? Her mum dies so suddenly and now I'm here proposing over the prospect of 'life is too short', 'you only live once' and making the most of it.
"I guess I can see how I would be the a***hole due to the dirt still being fresh but honestly I couldn't see a better moment than right then because we were finally free of her mother's judgement and able to be together without her mum's opinions on the matter. I told my friends about this today and they called me an insensitive a***hole, but I don't think I am completely. I had good intentions when I proposed, and doesn't every girl just wanna get married to the love of her life?"
Wanting to know whether he's in the wrong, he has taken to social media to ask users for their thoughts. In response, one user said: "Poor girl. Her mum was right about him. And the girlfriend didn’t get to see it until her mum was gone."
Another user added: "This really feels like he was waiting for her to die because the mum expressed concern about him dating her daughter. Like he wasn’t sad at the funeral or even focused on comforting and supporting his girlfriend who just watched her mother get sick and die in one month, but he was like 'one less roadblock'." A third user said: "It's so funny that he thinks he still has a girlfriend. Guarantee that she wants nothing to do with him anymore. Honestly unforgivable."
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