How do you get someone you love to stop proposing marriage when you know you're not ready?

You're in love with someone deeply and the feeling's mutual, but you know you're not ready for marriage even though you are in love with him. You have concerns about marriage in general and aren't convinced to go down that road anytime soon. You know you will always be with him, that you're not going anywhere and reassure him of that, but he persistently asks. How do you get him to stop proposing marriage---without losing him?How do you get someone you love to stop proposing marriage when you know you're not ready?
Say ';yes';. That is what he wants to hear. It is kind of like the pacifier to the baby. You don't have to set a date immediately, or get married ASAP. The baby is allowed to grow out of the pacifier and eventually does. Maybe, your growing will be marriage. We all don't develop at the same pace. I hope my weird analogy works. lolHow do you get someone you love to stop proposing marriage when you know you're not ready?
It's not all about you. What if he is ready? Which it obviously sounds like he is. What if he wants to get married. If you never want to get married I hope he knows that (and it sounds like he doesn't). It's not fair to him to say I love and you and we'll always be together....what if he wants that with a wife and not just a girlfriend. If you are never going to be ready you need to tell him so he can decide for himself if he wants to wait around or not for something that might never happen. If you think you may be ready in the future then tell him...with a time frame and ask him to stop asking until then. It's that simple. If you can't communicate now and speak the truth then you definitely don't need to get married.
You will need to come up with a compromise that you are both comfortable with. It may be not to discuss it for a while, agree on a reasonable length of time. Or it may be to accept the engagement, but delay setting a date. It will give you both a chance to see if agreements and compromise can be kept, and that will help in considering if this is the right relationship for both of you.
All you can do is reassure him you intend to marry him someday he must be insecure and it's his issue so he will have to deal with it like an adult and not put you on a guilt trip. If you lose him due to this you shouldn't be marrying him in the first place.





True love is patient if he goes just because he can't guilt trip you into marriage he doesn't love you anyway.
All you can do is tell them you are not ready. Sometimes it will come down to an ultimatum and if you are not ready you may have to let him go. Why keep him hanging around until you feel ready? That is pretty selfish. If it were right, you would know it and you wouldn't hesitate so.
Since I know exactly who you're talking about. This is my honest opinion tell him to STOP asking or else it's a no go. Putting undue pressure on her will only make it worse in the long run.





She'll be ready when she's ready. And not a minute before.
Tell him to ask you again in six months or a year or whatever time you think you will be ready.
Say Yes and set a date for 2015!