Mark: Thank you for your response and the link! You asked, “Are you willing to walk away if he does not commit to settling down?” The hard answer is yes. After talking to my therapist about this we agreed that I would have an open conversation with my boyfriend about how biologically I’m interested in having kids in the somewhat near future and I would love to share my future with him. I will give us some time to just “be together,” but around January 2019 (start of the new year), I’d like to revisit where we are in our relationship. If for some reason he would definitively say he was not interested in getting married, then that would be my queue to move on.