(My boyfriend proposes after a seven-year relationship. We are not religious, even though his parents are. We are having dinner with his parents.)

Dad: “You two had better become Christians. You need to thank God; he made it happen.”

Fiancé: “We don’t believe in God. I understand you do, and we respect it. But please don’t push it on us. We are getting married because we want it to happen; not God, nor anyone else.”

Mom: “I think you need to reconsider. Two nights ago, we were wondering when you would marry. I prayed to God for you to marry, and it worked!”

Dad: “Yep. So it is God’s work. Who knows how many more years you’d go on without proposing if we hadn’t prayed?”

Fiancé: “Did you say just two nights ago?”

Dad: “Yes!”

Fiancé: “I started ring shopping three weeks ago, and bought it last week.”

Mom: “Well, you probably would have just kept it, and been afraid to ask if we hadn’t prayed!”

(I have been telling my boyfriend about a good friend’s engagement—in all its cheesiness. They have been dating just as long as my boyfriend and I.)

Boyfriend: “Yeah, I’m never going to do that. In all honesty, I’d only want to get married for the insurance and tax benefits.”

Me: “And the wedding gifts.”

Boyfriend: “I’m not worth marrying anyway. Don’t marry me for me; marry me for something bigger. We’d have to have a house first, so you couldn’t leave me. A house with a jacuzzi.”

Me: “I’d marry you for a jacuzzi.”

(My friend asks me if I wanted to adopt her hedgehog. I’m critter crazy, but my boyfriend not so much. Before accepting, I decide to ask him if it is okay. I walk up to him with huge grin.)

Boyfriend: “Oh, God. Whatever you want, yes.”

Me: “Hedgie?”

Boyfriend: “A hedgehog?”

(He gives me a pained look while I continue grinning.)

Boyfriend: “I can tell you really want it.”

Me: “Really?”

(I squeal and jump around.)

Boyfriend: “When you smile at me like that, how can I say no?”

(I love my new ‘spiky hamster’, as he calls it!)

(My girlfriend does about as much gaming as I do. We’re messing around on ‘Half-Life 2: Deathmatch’. We are running around and throwing things at each other with the Gravity Gun.)

Girlfriend: “Babe, have a seat!”

(She launches a chair at me, and it hits. I run over a broken-off door and get an idea.)

Me: “Hey, I a-door you!”

(I launch the door at her. We can’t keep playing from all the laughing.)

Related:
The Couple That Slays Together, Stays Together, Part 14
The Couple That Slays Together, Stays Together, Part 13
The Couple That Slays Together, Stays Together, Part 12

Me: “You’re so cute when you’re not being annoying.”

Boyfriend: “You’re so annoying when you’re not being cute.”