Boyfriend for Seven Years

Dear Ruby:  I’ve been dating my boyfriend for seven years.  We text each other all day, we talk on the phone all night, and we spend every weekend together.  He says he loves me, and I know I love him, but he never talks to me about marriage.  Do you think he’s dating me just for what he can get?

--Latonya in Illinois

Dear Latonya in Illinois:  I don’t know.  What is he getting? Most men only marry women they truly love and respect; and women who they feel loved and respected them. Research shows, men only marry women who require them to marry them and have demonstrated an expectation to be marriage.