📖My boyfriend of five years refused to propose to me… and then humiliated me in front of his entire family. Tyler and I had been together since college — five years of shared rent, shared memories, shared futures I thought we were building together. For a year, I’d been dropping hints. At first sweet, subtle ones — friends’ engagement posts, lingering near jewelry store windows. Then less subtle — talking about venues, guest lists, even baby names. He always brushed it off. “Not the right time.