Orb concluded for him, simply, easily: "So don't."
And, after a minute's pause, that may or may not have actually been a minute, "It's better to do what you actually feel is right, as opposed to proposing to someone because you think you're supposed to. I would totally hate if someone did that to me. I mean, if the someone who should've done it, societally speaking, had, I think I would've said yes, but that's not the point."
Mym hadn't even known, after all.
"The point is, you shouldn't ask her to marry you if you don't want to marry her, anyway."