ok to ask a friend for marriage?

Question

i've been friends with this girl for 3 years and also dated as well, is it ok for me to ask this girl to get married. i just feel that there is no real good or perfect time. have anyone out there been asked by your best friend for marriage? We've been together itimately and its been great, her kids love me and i love them.

p.s. i do love her more than anyone else in my life before. I can't see my life without her. So on my part i am certain.

Answer 1

There are kids involved, don't take this decision lightly. You have been together long enough to know what to do.

I've heard that you shouldn't marry the person you think you can live with -- you should marry the person you think you can't live without. If you don't feel that for this woman, do all of you a favor and let her find someone who does.

And if you do, then marry her and treasure her and her kids for the rest of your lives!

Answer 2

There are probably several correct answers to this question. Some men, do love their wives but won't admit it. It seems to be the male thing to complain about "life at home" be it family or sex life they are discussing. Marriage , the title of which , gives respectability to a person. Some companies will not hire single people. And there is always the children, husbands are attached to the children and don't want to lose them or be separated from them for any period of time. The finances enter into the equation as well. Having to pay alimony and have to rent and keep an apartment is just too costly to allow divorce become the question. Some even stay together because of the image portrayed by being divorced and how this looks to other family members. And then, some realize that they made a commitment before God and these witnesses, and realize a need to honor that contract.