Jennifer Love Hewitt and her boyfriend, Scottish actor Ross McCall, have been dating for over a year and a half and are spotted out together frequently. Now Star Magazine reports that they’ve given each other promise rings, and that they may marry next year:

Things are going so well for Jennifer Love Hewitt, 28, and her beau… Scott actor Ross McCall, 31, that the lovebirds have given each other promise rings!

“They are very, very [much] in love,” a pal close to the Ghost Whisperer star tells Star. “They’re glued at the hip, do everything together, even live together.”

Ross has cleared another important hurdle: winning over mom Pat! “Her mother, who is a very strong force in Jennifer’s life, approves of Ross and wants Jennifer to settle down,” says the pal. Expect a summer 2008 wedding in the beautiful gardens of the legendary Beverly Hills Hotel.

[From Star Magazine print edition, August 20, 2007]

It sounds like all the “source” told Star was that they’ve exchanged rings, that Jennifer’s mom likes Ross, and that they do everything together. That bit at the end about a summer 2008 wedding could just be something they tacked on, but it might be true.

Jennifer Love Hewitt comes off as a genuinely kind person, and I was trying to think if she’s ever dated a real jerk because Ross McCall seems like he would make a great husband. There are some women who always choose the best guys. You know the type of person I’m talking about – she’s super nice and is never without a doting boyfriend. (I dated a lot of jerks before I met my husband, but I guess that’s a good thing or I might have been stuck with someone else instead of him.)

Then I remembered that Jennifer dated Wilmer Valderamma, or at least he claimed on Howard Stern that he dated her. She said they were just friends and laughed off his boasts, saying “I was told, like, that we had all these very steamy encounters, and I was like, really! Well, I would have loved to have been there!”

According to nndb.com, her other boyfriends have included Joey Lawrence in 1996, Will Friedle from 1996-97, Carson Daly fro 1997-99, and John Mayer in 2002. I never heard that about John Mayer and Jennifer, but he wasn’t really on my radar at that point.

She’s also very close to her mom and lived with her up until at least 2002, when she was 23. She told Rolling Stone “I like the fact that my mom and I need each other, and I like the fact that I’m only going to get one life with her and I’ll never have to look back and say, ‘Gosh, I wish my mom and I could have done that.'” [From EOnline]

Maybe she never rebelled and that’s part of the way she avoided dating jerks. I’m still not sure she dodged that Wilmer Valderrama bullet, although she handled his big mouth pretty well.

I would love to see Jennifer Love Hewitt have children as she seems like she’d make a great mom, not that you have to be married to do that.

Jennifer Love Hewitt and Ross McCall on show on 7/22/07 at the debut game of Beckam’s LA Galaxy. Thanks to Splash News for this pic.