Hi! I've been lurking for awhile now and I have been jonesing for your advice.
Quick Background: My BF and I are both 22. We both live with our respective parents. He is in school and I am trying to get enough work/money to move out. We have been together 5 1/2 years. We have discussed marriage and think it might be nice to get married sometime in the distant future but we don't want to go there until we have decided what careers we are gonna have, where we want to live and other stuff that we don't have worked out right now.
The question: How do we respond family pressure to get married (and then have kids) soon? My family doesn't care but his family asks me everytime they see me, how things are going, are we making wedding plans, how soon we plan to have kids. I try the "bean dip" move but then they corner him and ask him why I am so evasive. When I smile and say we don't plan on getting married anytime soon because we still live with our parents, they keep pushing. I love that they take our relationship seriously and want me in their family but I've started ducking them so I don't have to hear it about it. My bf talked to them about not bringing it up but they steamroll right over the top of him.