💍 Is This A Weak Proposal Or An Ungrateful Partner? You Decide!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda gem Nation. We've been a winning proposal that's
gone viral under the headline ungrateful wife won't say yes.
That's inflammatory language. Let me tell you what this before
we play it for you. What the image is. It's
a guy on his knee, you know, down on one
knee in his kitchen, next to a solitary small balloon

(00:22):
that says a r y me, can't even spell mary,
marry me, marry me, and he's obviously filming the moment
for himself. He's down on one knee with that balloon.
And here's how it went.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Seriously, ten years.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
You can't even spell marry correctly?

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Ten years, ten years? This is what I got. Yeah, well, Jesus,
choice drive. Everything is always so half hearted with you,
do you know what? I'm not being funny, fabulous, lovely rain,
but this is not for me. Ten years I've been
asking you for this, and you know I would have
thought you would make an effort. It's an engagement. People

(01:01):
get to say, I work difference if I was replacing
to you, and it's taking me somewhere on a beautiful
island to show you that is what you take me
to a local park.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Absolutely, but marriage, life.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Living together takes effort.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
And if you can't put an effort, now what happened?

Speaker 2 (01:22):
No, I don't, so do you know what? Honestly I think,
I think couples canceling wuld be the best idea of
the marriage.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
It's the comments are very interesting. People are saying, yes,
she should flick him ten years he obviously doesn't care enough.
Others are saying, run mate, You've done everything and she
doesn't appreciate any of it. All the two camps really,
which is very nuanced in that he's doing the bare
minimum enough. That's what he's saying, this is what you
want here it is, and she's saying, you know how

(01:52):
much this matters to me, and you still can't be
bothered making an effort. It's like if your partner goes
crazy if you leave dishes on the sink or or
something gives her enormous pleasure. If you think if you
bring her a cup of teen she loves that and
you don't do it, that shows that you don't care
about their feelings. And that's really important to people, and

(02:13):
particularly I think maybe two women. I don't know, but
she is seeing he's saying, I'm doing the gesture, isn't
that enough? And she's saying, no, it's not enough, And
it's okay to say that's not enough, the bare minimum
isn't enough. What do you think?

Speaker 2 (02:29):
It's a tricky one because at the end of the day,
but ten years, have been together.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
For ten years, and that's what people are saying. Why
she put up with it for this long?

Speaker 2 (02:37):
And she sounds just because I thought at first it
might have been a bit fake. But then there's a
bit there where she's just over it and she says
maybe couples canceling. But then again, maybe there's a point
where you said, do you split up after ten years?
Are they going to break up? I've got kids? What's
their backstory?

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Who would know any of that? But maybe this is
the moment where she's going, you know what this is.
He's not making any effort for the stuff he knows
matters to me.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
I think I might A lot of guys that have
been in a long term relationship that aren't married. They
feel a lot of pressure from outside other people saying, oh,
you should get married, what are you going to ask
her to be engaged? And all that sort of stuff,
So in a way they almost go I'm just going
to do it this father.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
So I'm going to do it today. It's Valentine's Day.
I'll buy a balloon, I'll misspell marry. But also there's
a lot of pressure because of all the internet footage
of credible gestures that are made. She's saying, I don't
need that, but I just need you to think about
what I'd like to put a bit of care into this.
And if he can't be bothered doing it for a
big moment like this, what's the other stuff he's going

(03:36):
to let slip.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Perhaps, you know, a bit of auto correct on his balloon.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
And but I'm with her on this, and the fact
that the headline to this is ungrateful. Wife won't say yes,
this is where women are. Anyone is allowed to say.
I deserve better than this.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
I said to see where he's coming from. I'm straddling
the two camps. Can I do that?

Speaker 1 (03:55):
I haven't seen the video of that.