Stick around or wait it out?

My boyfriend and I have been together for eight years. I am 25 and he is 29 years old. He says he is not ready for marriage because he wants to get his finances and career together, but knows he would marry me "one day."
He has girls that are friends. However, do you find it appropriate for him to be out with a girl for 8 hours. They went to a movie, dinner, and out shopping. He didn't call me until 3 in the morning.
I know he didn't do anything. Is this a clue that he doesn't want to get married because he still wants his single life freedom?

What people do is a much more accurate indicator of how they feel than what they say. Without even considering the part about dinner and movies with other women without your being invited, eight years with no movement should answer your question.

You should also be very careful about putting pressure on this guy. It should be obvious at this point that this is something he doesn't want and if he caves in to the pressure, what do you have? Someone who is somewhere he doesn't want to be.

My advice is to tell him to take a hike and find someone who wants to take you to dinner and a movie.

I just checked in with my fiancee...

His opinion is that after 8 years of being with a woman who accepts you for you, finances not being where they should is an excuse and not the real reason he isn't committing. If your boyfriend really wants to get married, then he'd do it. No excuses, no waiting. (1-3 years of dating would be a different story, though.) He also says that if he's really trying to get his finances in order, then he wouldn't have the time or money to hang out with anyone, because he'd be putting every available cent into the bank, and that extra time would be spent on a part-time gig.

He thinks it sounds like your boyfriend has no real interest in marriage.