“I’m getting ready to go in the shower, and it’s finally hitting me that I’m proposing tomorrow to my boyfriend,” says a woman who goes by Estella on TikTok. In a video posted on November 26 that has since racked up more than 8 million views, she smiles as she shares her thought process. “This is just something that I feel I have to do. I really wanna get married,” she says. “We’ve been together for 14 years already. He hasn’t proposed. I know he wants to spend the rest of his life with me; he says it all the time. And we’re in love, even after this long. So why not?”
Estella, who posts as @est.ellita , has posted several follow-up videos, including one showcasing the ring she proposed with and another discussing her outfit options . In her video sharing part of the proposal itself,

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