Congratulations, you're dating a man. From the sounds of it and your question, I'm guessing your still young.

And just to be clear, do you think that after six months you SHOULD have seriously discussed marriage? Because if you do, then I think the problem is maybe you, not him. But I'll assume that you don't.

I have this theory. I think that 99 percent of men want to get married, but we ALL want it on our own terms. So when we here you talk about your friend getting married, we think that you're trying to start a marriage convo that we're not ready to have. However, we will free to mention being married to you because we brought it up and its on our terms. It's called manthink-selfish paradigmaticism. It's not actually, I made that up.

He's just hedging his bets in case you really are ready to tie the knot. He doesn't want to give you the idea that he is ready for that. So its basically ridiculous logic. If you mention marriage, and I say something less than positive then you'll dead the convo. If you mention and I say something positive, then I'll put thoughts in your head. Dumb? Yes.

And you can tell him that I said it. So this is why your boyfriend is confusing you. Don't take him too seriously. He's not ready to get married he's just afraid that you might be. And because of that he's confusing.