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"Last week, my boyfriend, Bill, and I went on a truly ah-mah-zing vacation to Hawaii. This wasn&amp;#x27;t our first trip together&amp;amp;#8212;he went home with me for Thanksgiving&amp;amp;#8212;but it was big for us for two reasons: 1) Um, because it&amp;#x27;s Hawaii, and 2) I was meeting his mother for the first time (who, lucky, lives there). Greetings From Maui! P.S. It&amp;#x27;s hard to take a selfie in beach chairs. I know, I know: not a real problem. Not on the travel itinerary? Getting engaged. It&amp;#x27;s not that I&amp;#x27;m commitment-phobic or shying away from the idea of a future together&amp;amp;#8212;but we&amp;#x27;ve only been dating for about a year, and it&amp;#x27;s just not a milestone that&amp;#x27;s even a discussion at this point. But even though it&amp;#x27;s not on my radar, apparently it was on other people&amp;#x27;s minds! Before we left for the trip, a friend of Bill&amp;#x27;s joked not to &amp;quot;come back engaged.&amp;quot; Then, in Hawaii, his totally adorable mom made one or two sweet but engagement-y jokes about me &amp;quot;joining the family&amp;quot; and how we should &amp;quot;just get married!&amp;quot; But the real kicker was last night, when I phoned my parents to tell them all about the trip, and my mom let it drop that she and my dad wondered if maybe we&amp;#x27;d come back engaged. Yeesh. I know everybody was only kidding. And I get it: When a couple who clearly care about each other go on vacation to an exotic locale, it&amp;#x27;s easy to assume there will be a lot of romance in the air. But can a trip just be a trip? I have no idea how to handle it! I&amp;#x27;ve been awkwardly laughing it off, but if it keeps happening...is there a gentle way to say, &amp;quot;Hey, calm down, folks&amp;quot;? I know I&amp;#x27;m not alone here! Has this happened to you too? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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