Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm a 33 year old man and my girlfriend is 31. We have been together for over five years and when I met her she was a single mom working part time as a waitress and barely making ends meet. So we started dating and I stepped in and started doing everything for her, as a man should. She will admit that I was the best thing that ever happened to her. Now five years later she's finished college and she's got a great job. I've always supported her with anything she's wanted to do and after our two year anniversary of dating, I had planned to ask her to marry me but I had a big financial setback and I had to put that on hold........