My significant other of 4 years refuses to make a committment in our relationship. What to do?

Question

He was married a couple times before and he and I are both mature in age. I am in my late 40's and he is in his early 50's. He sleeps, eats and does most things with me. We live within a mile of each other. I pay the same bills, right down to the newspaper carrier that he does. He comes home and calls me the minute he gets up after working all nite. He lives in a 2 story house with no kids, and I live in a 2 story house with 1 kid who is planning on moving out in the next 2 years.
A couple years ago, he asked me to marry him and when he told his x wife, who still seems to be in all of his business, she cried and asked him how he could do something like that without telling the kids first. To make a longer story short he backed out of the marriage proposal and he has refused to make any kind of a committment since. Not that it matters, but his x wife was re married already. I have tried to discuss our relationship with him and he gives me the silent treatment.

Answer 1

Move on, you will be better off. He is not going to commit to you, and you deserve better.