I've been getting pressured lately by my girlfriend. I'm 25 years old and she's 21. We've been going out for a year and 3 months now and I've always been strict in my beliefs and what I want going for me and what I want in life. I've always had this picture in my head of graduating college and finding a good job and then settling down. But the girlfriend thing is sort of rearranging things in a different perspective. I've always wanted to get married at 28 years old. Why 28? I don't know, maybe because I think it's a good age and it's a good time to be alone with your wife for about 2 years being together and living with each other without kids. Because I know having kids also rearrange your life completely. My girlfriend wants to get married, period. I already opened my big mouth a while back by telling her I'd marry her by November. And I had a plan set, I'd tell her I would marry her in November and during this time until then, I would delay the marriage for 2 years or more. I think I'm too young to get married. Many people have told me, "Why don't you get her an engagement ring so she'll back off for a while? Or what about a promise ring?" That sounds like a good idea and I have to save money to buy her an engagement. But everytime she brings up the subject of marriage, we always end up arguing. Can you believe it? She has never once, met my mom or any of my family members only for my little sister. Who she only saw for like five minutes and that's it. My other sister left to Florida so there goes that. My parents got divorced so she'll never meet my dad. My brother is schizophrenic and she's never met him either. I met her parents, her older brother, younger brother and older sister and her parents hate my guts. Because they are the old fashioned type that watch us at her porch at night through the window. I'm serious, I love this girl to death and I know she's the one for me. But I'm not prepared for marriage and I also feel as if she's just using that as an excuse to leave her house. She's told me she feels trapped because she never goes out and I only get to see her at work. I also feel like her parents are way overprotective and I don't understand why they think I'm a bad person. They've never even given me a chance to get to know them. Anyway, I'm starting to get depressed a little and the only way I can let myself be understood is by posting this to complete strangers. Anyway, thank you for reading all the way through.