How new? Myself and my wife have been together 6 years married 2.

Got married in July, been together for five years

I better not give you relationship advice, you might end up dead or worse, engaged.

But yeah, it usually pays to jump into the fray and hope not to get destroyed in the process. Emotionally and whatnot. It pays to have a "whatever" attitude about rejection, though.

I love two things about your post. One: you say you'd better not do something, then you do it. Two: When you do it, it's actually pretty good advice!
Well congratulations! I wish you all the best. However, now we'd better wrap up this tangent, we seem to have slightly hijacked the angst ;)

Reverse psychology. Maybe I do want him dead/engaged? :)

To PM!

In which case, is one to follow the advice to end up in that parlous state of affairs? In which case you can say "hey, I told him not to follow the advice".

Or should one ignore it as per the warning? And then because he didn't follow your good advice he ends up in a box or buying a ring.

It's a double bluff! And you, sir, are a slippery genius!

"I like you. What do you think of marriage? Want some of my orange juice?"

About the only suitable response is, "Let's discuss it in bed."