Proposals and rings should be personalised to your wife. Mine is below - a garnet and black gold vintage looking ring inscribed with "in aeternum te amabo" - Latin for i will love you eternally - given to me during a storm at a location featured in Dracula.
THAT is how you do it
a man who hates commitment consistently choosing to fight to be with his safe space of 16 years because nothing was ever more important to him to keep.