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I kind of agree with Nancy...what difference really, and practically, does being married make? I don't think it's fair to force him to do it, or give him an ultimatum. It's a case of what's more important to you - him, or the ring. If you want it to confirm some sort of status, then I think you want it for the wrong reasons. A much better approach if you really feel that strongly about him, is to propose to him yourself. You can always exchange "rings" later. I have a friend who did that with her SO. They went out and got each other plain silver rings, with an inscription along the lines of "I love you, I don't want to live without you" and the date. Much more romantic - demanding it is just aggressive.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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