so young...

i found out today that my brother bought an engagement ring to give to Kim sometime in the next couple of months... he knows the date he's going to pop the question, but is keeping that info from everyone so that it doesn't slip out and ruin the surprise for Kim...

they're soooo young... *sigh*... i do know they're planning a longer engagement... like 2 or 3 years... but they just want to make it official... they've been dating for 4 years now, and in southwest virginia, it's the social norm to get engaged after you've been dating for a certain amount of time... *sigh*... i wish it weren't that way... but i know that it's hard not to be pressured into that by everyone when you live there... heck, even though i don't live there, i still get the "why aren't you married yet?" and "don't you think you two have been dating long enough to get engaged now?" it drives me crazy that people think that's all there is to life... i guess for some people it works... or they make it work because that's all they know... *sigh*