(01-24-2018, 08:52 AM)eric Wrote: There are dangers associated with a public proposal-in a restaurant, on the screen at the ball park, at a party with friends. She might say no, tell you she is dumping you for the new love of her life, accuse you of keeping secrets, etc. If everyone hears the last one, imagine the pressure to confess and being sent to a padded cell. In real life I am sure many guys try to make it romantic, once you do propose your beloved goes from 0 to 100 in planning, calling friends, looking for a dress, the best napkins for the tables. Better to propose in Vegas and get married that night.

(01-24-2018, 09:47 AM)irukandji Wrote:

(01-24-2018, 08:52 AM)eric Wrote: There are dangers associated with a public proposal-in a restaurant, on the screen at the ball park, at a party with friends. She might say no, tell you she is dumping you for the new love of her life, accuse you of keeping secrets, etc. If everyone hears the last one, imagine the pressure to confess and being sent to a padded cell. In real life I am sure many guys try to make it romantic, once you do propose your beloved goes from 0 to 100 in planning, calling friends, looking for a dress, the best napkins for the tables. Better to propose in Vegas and get married that night.

So you think that's the reason Nick didn't propose in public? He was more concerned with what others would think than with Juliette?

(01-24-2018, 07:56 AM)Hell Rell Wrote: I really don't see the problem with Nick proposing in the home he and Juliette shared for years. It's most likely where their fondest memories are. As Eric said, Nick keeping secrets was the problem, not them being interrupted. Where did Monroe propose to Rosalee?

(01-24-2018, 10:12 AM)irukandji Wrote:

(01-24-2018, 07:56 AM)Hell Rell Wrote: I really don't see the problem with Nick proposing in the home he and Juliette shared for years. It's most likely where their fondest memories are. As Eric said, Nick keeping secrets was the problem, not them being interrupted. Where did Monroe propose to Rosalee?

I do. The house is something they reside in every day. Proposing to Juliette in the house is like buying her a vacuum for Christmas, in my opinion. Nick should be looking at her as something special, not something that's part of the house.

I have no idea where Monroe proposed to Rosalee.

Quote:On this week’s episode of Grimm [3.12, "The Wild Hunt"], Monroe and Rosalee finally get engaged.

Here are the important details: Rosalee wears a hot little black dress, they dine at a posh restaurant, dinner conversation seems ridiculously erotic (and twisted) until you realize they’re talking about the first time they woge’d (heh), they come home and Rosalee is really uninterested in seeing Monroe’s newest cuckoo clock… until it chimes “Will you marry me?”

He gets down on one knee and echoes, “Will you?” She replies in the tearful affirmative, and he slips a very pretty ring on her very pretty hand. Nicely done, Grimm.

(01-24-2018, 10:05 AM)eric Wrote: No, but there seems to be a lot of people who feel a big show is the only way to go.If he felt a more quite setting was right for them, good for him. If he had wanted to hire a sky writing plane, good for him. I was just pointing out that big shows are not for everyone and can have downsides.

Quote:Stanley and Rhoades illustrate this point by pointing to the research on cohabitation, engagement, and divorce. Women who cohabit prior to engagement are about 40 percent more likely to divorce, compared to those who do not cohabit.

(01-24-2018, 01:52 PM)New Guy Wrote: Hi Forum,
Here is an interesting study about cohabitation and commitment:
https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/07/men-and-women-often-expect-different-things-when-they-move-in-together/277571/

Quote:Stanley and Rhoades illustrate this point by pointing to the research on cohabitation, engagement, and divorce. Women who cohabit prior to engagement are about 40 percent more likely to divorce, compared to those who do not cohabit.

If Nick and Juliette were engaged before they moved in together, proposal accepted and ring on her finger, what would have changed? Would she break it off? When and how would she do it?
I will guess that the cat scratch fever is when she returns the ring, but fails to move out. End of commitment, just free rent and FWB activities.
N G

(01-24-2018, 01:45 PM)FaceInTheCrowd Wrote: The romantic weekend in "Whispering Pines" was supposed to be the "big show" for the proposal. By the end of the weekend, Nick probably concluded that the couch in their living room might be the least dangerous place to propose. After all, they'd made it two thirds of the way through a season and only been attacked in the living room once...so far.

Little did Nick realize that that house would eventually prove to be the single most dangerous place in the world.