Forever JUST a girlfriend 😒

Ok quick rant... maybe not so quick but here it goes. Ok so me and my boyfriend have been together for almost 6 years. We have a 3 year old son and a baby girl on the way. I’ve been a stay at home mom every since I have birth to our son and my boyfriend has made sure to take great care of us. Nice home, makes sure we have all our wants and needs met. Literally will do anything for me... BUT why hasn’t he proposed to me yet? We use to talk about it but then we stopped, things went a little sour so we both put the conversation on hold. For

The last year I’ve been feeling like I want marriage again and I’ve communicated that with him. We planned our daughter and our son was somewhat planned. I don’t understand what’s the hold up. I see everyone else around me getting engaged / married and I’m truly happy for them BUT I can’t help to think why not me... like not even a proposal 🤔 he tells me all the time how I’m such a great woman , blah blah! And I know I am. He’s invested in my business, pretty much everything a husband and wife would do but no marriage in the works. I’m not necessarily in a rush to be married ( I’m 24, he’s 29) but at the same time it’s like well damn, not even a proposal yet? And it makes me so mad when ppl ask “when are yal getting married” , “Girl it’s been years, why aren’t yal married?” Well I damn sure won’t be getting down on my knee so why even ask me that lol. I haven’t discussed this with him but I’ve been thinking after I have the baby, maybe I’ll move out into my own place until we decide what we are

Doing because I don’t want to just be a girlfriend or just be the mother of his children. I think I deserve more than that. His mom always makes comments about us getting married and saying stuff like “Wow, if something happens to him, you don’t even get a say in anything, girlfriends don’t have benefits” and I think about that a lot and it’s true. I think what topped it off tonight was seeing my sister get engaged and she hasn’t even been with her man for a year and I’m just like well damn is he really just not trying to marry me? What do you ladies think, has anyone been through something similar?