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In this story some man's girlfriend didn't accept his proposal for these reasons:

Finding out it was a real proposal and seeing the proof was the only reason she came back. She's putting things on hold at this moment, wants me to keep the ring and ask again in a year from now. She'll make a final decision by then. If she's ready sooner, she'll tell me to ask again but for the meantime only refer to her as my girlfriend.

She can't accept it now due to my past pranking history and carefree attitude. She pointed out that a month before the hurtful proposal prank that made her feel insecured in the relationship, I've made jokes about having Covid too (faking coughing) and acted inconsiderate towards others, had a history of sometimes being late to our dates, sometimes delay on paying some bills and doing things at the last minute even when I had enough time. Meanwhile I've stopped doing pranks and improving, she said I need to change more before she considers marriage. I admit, I was unpunctual with my last bill last month. Lastly, she doesn't really care about the ring nor the cost but thought my proposal was lame and it lacked creativity and enthusiasm, as if I wasn't even trying. She couldn't understand why I was creative with the fake proposal but couldn't do the same with the real proposal, put more effort into it.

She doesn't want to marry him. She's postponing things. He pranked a proposal once and hurt her but when he did it for real, she wasn't excited anymore.

Hi, so I've been chatting to this guy I met at a coffee shop for 2 weeks and gone on 2 dates with him, no sex yet but have kissed. Because he come out of no where I'm not sure what to do. I am very tied up to my job and school at the moment and need to focus for a good 2-3months until holiday break. I don't have time to date atm. I really like him and I'm sure he really likes me too. He is also quite a busy person. I don't want to lead him on, but I also don't want him to think I'm not interested. What should I do?

I'm thinking I cool down or pull back a bit, because I need to focus, then reach out and see if his free to hang later after 3 months.

Again I'm worried we will get too deep and I can't be there for him as of yet.