Thanks for reading my post, I'll try to keep things short and sweet.
Me (M31) and my girlfriend (F29) have been dating for almost 6 years now, and everything has been perfect. She is quite literally my favourite person of all time. We mesh together great on everything. Seeing her every day has been a blessing and has made my life worth living.
Since I was little, I've always wanted to me married, which I know probably isn't stereotypical for young men, but my parents have a great marriage, and it's something that I've always looked up to. For the past five years or so I've hinted about wanting to get married, and lately I've started to feel some resentment.
I've never been married before, but she has, and to put it bluntly, it was not a good marriage. Imagine every possible issue you can imagine why a marriage wouldn't last, and then it would be some things on top of it. Needless to say, she has some issues around marriage.
She has gone from saying that she would never get married again to saying that she is open to it, but she still isn't ready. My issue is that we've been together for six years, and have known each other longer.
I know it's not rational of me, and it's not fair, but it is causing resentment. We've seen a relationship therapist a few times and the gist is she thinks we have a good foundation, and we're not the typical couple that she sees because everything functions so well.
I really don't think the day is going to come when she's going to want to make the commitment to me, and I am starting to feel checked out of the relationship as of late.