Dear Queenie,
I’ve been going out for years with a middle-aged man who still lives with his parents. We have talked about getting married but he still hasn’t actually proposed.
Queenie, should I wait around until his parents are gone and hope then he will want to get married? That could be a long time, because they aren’t that old and are in very good health.—Getting impatient
Dear Impatient,
It is not likely that this man will want to get married until he can no longer depend on his parents, if then. And even then, are you certain you want to marry a man who has no experience of living on his own and probably will become as dependent on you as he now is on his parents? If so, by all means stick around. If not, stop thinking of him as husband material.
