Propose or no propose...I want to meet his Mom

I am talking about the time when I completed my MBA and took up a job in an extremely distressing organization, which made me work round the clock (ofcourse I was too gullible to realize it then) and surprisingly I enjoyed it.
My mum (who has always been worried about my social life) was silent for a year and then started hinting that its time I find a suitable boy to get married to and she doesn’t mind lining up few. Obviously, I ignored it and went on with my life.
I had no time to mingle around with friends (many of them had stopped calling me on weekends too) let alone relationships. Actually it wont be fair to blame them, whenever they called I used to be in office (sounding distracted and busy even at 9 in the night) and I got used to hearing stuff like, “get a life”, “what are you doing with yourself”, “do you even have time to spend all that money you are making”, and I used to give my standard reply “I’ll call you back”, which ofcourse I never did.
Anyway coming back to mum, she couldn’t bear it any more and started telling me about all the possible suitors (in the mean while, I met a wonderful man and was in a very serious relationship) so finally I had to tell her about my boy friend (I call him baabu) and that I was in a stable relationship and things might lead to marriage. Mum was very excited and then followed all the obvious questions like how did you meet him, his family, what is he doing, why you didn’t tell me earlier blah blah.
Well things were fine till the time mum heard that baabus’ mom is coming to visit him for a week. Now she wanted to meet her. I tried explaining things to her that we haven’t spoken anything about marriage yet so I don’t see a point in making our families meet.
She gave me a long look and said, “Is it another ‘college time pass affair’ or you two serious about each other”. I was embarrassed to the core. “Ofcourse, we are serious”, I managed in my weak voice.
“Good’, she smiled ‘then what’s the harm in meeting his mom, it isn’t that she lives near by, god knows when she will come next” (she lives in England).
Now, this was getting too much I had to explain it to her.
“Mum, I mean we do discuss about living together, (she gave me a horror-struck look and before she could take it in a wrong sense I corrected) after marriage ofcourse, but nothing is formal till now, I mean he hasn’t proposed.
Now she was truly confused, and looked at me as if I was talking French. “Hasn’t proposed? But just now you said you both are serious about each other and talk about marriage”.
Oh god spare me this, it’s hard, more than hard.
“Mum, I love him and he loves me but I would like him to propose, as in ask me if I would like to marry him” (yes… I have done it).
“Ok, so this is encouraging you to stop me from meeting his mom. Simple, if he has not proposed then you propose, in the end you both want to be together who proposed and who didn’t doesn’t matter afterwards”.
Well, she was right and gone are the days when girls would wait forever to be asked, I could do that but the question was if I wanted to do that? I was happy with my current arrangement for the time being and anyway why should I be the one to break the age old cliché who ever wants to do that can happily do it.
“No mum I want him to do it and I don’t think now is the time we still have some time to reach that stage”. Now she truly lost her patience, “do you see yourself getting married to him”?
“Ofcourse I……”
“Fine, propose or no propose I want to meet his mom. Let me meet her we can decide when is the good time for the wedding and all the other arrangement and then you both can take all the time in the world to propose each other”.
“What…???(I had a strange expression on my face). Mum it doesn’t work that way”.
But she had already stormed out and I didn’t want to argue more. Well I didn’t have much of a choice and I explained everything to baabu, who was very patient and considerate. I thought all sort of cultural difference would come in to play havoc but to my surprise it went well without a single disagreement.And I am safe till his mom’s next visit.