I would wait for a few years, depending on the seriousness of our relationship and where things were going. I would not expect him to propose to me right away or even after only one year. Many people today wait it out to ensure that this is the person they want to spend the rest of their lives with. If my boyfriend felt this way, I could surely accept his wishes and would wait for him to be ready, if he were the person I would want to stay with. Of course, I would have to be aware of his intentions and know how he feels about our relationship. For example, I would not wait this long if I had no clue whether he was planning to marry me at all or if we even were on the same page in terms of a future together. I would make sure we did talk it over after dating for x-amounts of time, when things started feeling “right”. I guess, there is no set time limit for this. I could feel totally comfortable with him after only a few months or it could take me years to come to realize that I did enter into a serious commitment with him. I would want to wait at least a year, though, to ensure my decision was in no way clouded by the awesome feeling of new love. On the other hand, if things felt right and I knew he felt the same way about me as I did about him, I don’t see a reason why I couldn’t be the one who made the proposal to marry in the future. I might not kneel down and ask him to marry me (I am a bit old-fashioned in that sense, I guess), but I would surely bring up the subject so that we could talk about it and then we could together decide on the next move (or I’d let him make it…).