Proposing To Your Girlfriend And Then Giving Her The Puppy That She Always Wanted Is A Crazy Move
WHAT AN IDIOTTTT! I am not going to be one of those guys that calls a guy a fool for proposing to his girlfriend because marriage is hell or anything like that. If you find a girl that you want to spend the rest of your life with and she doesn’t absolutely loathe you, you should lock it up. Quickly.
My beef is with the guy shooting his proverbial load at the engagement. When you pop the question, you are money with your girl until at least the wedding. If you include the entire family at the proposal, you are probably good with her and her entire family for five years. But if you then give her a puppy to top it all off? Outrageous. You have to save the new puppy card for either a huge fight or once she realizes she made a mistake marrying you. You don’t see football teams breaking out their best trick plays once they’ve already won the game.
And what if the chick had said no? This guy would have been dunked on by his girlfriend while also having to raise her dream puppy on principle alone. The key to any healthy relationship is to under-promise and over-deliver (or to be honest, just to promise to deliver most often than not). Now this chick will be expecting the stars and the moon from her husband every day until death does them part and this guy has nobody to blame but himself.