You dated for seven years, but didn’t get married? That’s a shame. Sounds like you had a solid relationship.
I never had a girlfriend that long.
We didn’t get married because my family was not ... ah, sigh.
All I want to say on that is that she was a good girl, and her family was great. I loved them all very much.
I wish my family had seen things differently, but alas.
We had to go our separate ways, but we remained friends until she passed away at the age of 40 from an anneurysm, which made me very sad. She was the mother of a little boy and a little girl.