25-year-old woman asks her 27-year-old boyfriend about clarity on their future and he breaks up with her: 'He later said he spoke to his mother and she said he ... (opens in new tab)

Who determines our relationship to love and marriage?At first, I thought this was yet another story about a guy getting cold feet right at the moment he is asked a big question. This is how it always goes for me: everything seems to be going fine, and at some point, I decide to bring up some variation of the 'what are we?' question, and all we had goes up in flames. I think this is a fairly universal experience and not just my bad luck… Right?Well, this wasn't the case at all for the young wo...