I was watching this show called Moving Up, where people buy new houses and then the old owners come back to see the changes they’ve made. There was a woman on the show that had been dating her boyfriend for 15 years, and was buying a new house that she hoped (after all this time!) would entice him to move in with her. She also decorated her bedroom in black and white, even though she hates black and white, because her boyfriend likes those colors and again, she hoped this would entice him to move in.

The woman seemed nice enough. She was bubbly and a good businesswoman. She had gone from bartender to millionaire in just seven years. So one would wonder why her boyfriend didn’t want to get married? It was obvious that the woman did. She still, after 15 years, held out hope to get married to this guy. At the end of the show, he was still being noncommittal and I got the impression he was probably going to string her along for another 15 years.

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