A woman was left mortified after her boyfriend proposed at her great aunt's funeral to 'cheer everyone up'. However, after pressing him on why he decided a funeral would be the right place to pop the question, she learnt a horrible truth. The 26-year-old had been dating her boyfriend, 30, for three years – but they did not live together as their parents had a problem with them sharing a home out of wedlock.
While she had been dropping hints about marriage, she never expected him to pick such a delicate moment to get down on one knee. On Reddit , she said: "Last week, we went to my great aunt's funeral. Although I didn't know her very well, I was still upset and it was really hard to see how much it hurt my mother.
So after the funeral, we went to a hall that we rented to cater to the other mourners to remember her. My boyfriend saw this as a chance to propose. "This left me mortified and everyone was staring at us for using this to make it about ourselves.
I said no and he got angry and walked off saying that I'm the one who wants to get married so I shouldn't care where he proposes. He also said that if I truly loved him I would say yes." With that, he started giving her the silent treatment for rejecting his advance and blamed her for embarrassing him in front of her entire family.
She added: "In any other scenario, I would say yes but I didn't think it was the right place or time." She says she started to reevaluate her relationship with him after seeing how he handles r.