He had been leading me on for several months. He would randomly drop down on one knee or pull out a ring box with his class ring in it just to get me good and desensitized. He also kept telling me we needed to go shopping to look at rings, even though we had already established exactly what I wanted and didn’t need to shop anymore. Christmas, New Years, and Valentines Day all came and went without the expected proposal. I had had a bad night the night before, and when I came home from work Jerry had already made dinner for me. He also kept saying a lot of really nice things to me, which would normally make me suspicious, but I thought it was just because I had basically had an emotional meltdown the night before. I had gotten so used to his fake proposals that when he finally got down on one knee and asked me, the first words out of my mouth when he asked me were “Is that for real?”