Engagement Rings...

[inkspot]

Wedding rings are smaller versions of a collar.

 

[musclemom]

Symbol of love?

Symbol of willingness to sacrifice?

What do you think it really means when people see metal and rock glittering on a woman's hand?

I just want to add that this is not a thread to flame anyone ideas or desires.

I've been married twice and never received an engagement ring. My first husband did give me a 1/3 carat diamond solitare for xmas after we'd been married about 10 years, and it was a mistake. It was an inexpensive (around $300) engagement ring ... and don't think the fact that it was worth less than his video game systems exactly warmed me up, either. The man had a home and good credit, he was perfectly capable of financing a classy piece of jewlery for me.

Second go 'round, by now I've realized I'm not really a diamond type of gal, anyway. Our wedding bands are plain titanium (not expensive and virtually indestructible, I liked the symbolism).

All big, clearly expensive rings say to me is you've got money to throw away. You don't measure love in carats. You take any 10 freshly married women, some without rings, some with tiny rings, some with the Hope diamond, and 50% of them will be divorced in a few years, anyway. Diamonds may be forever but marriage is generally a crap shoot (especially for first time out of the box 20 somethings).

 

[jnevin]

Let's see if this joke goes over like a lead bomb....I bet people say, " Wow, the ring is good,but the husband sucks".


My husband gave me a lil piece of crap ring when he asked me to marry him. He had NO money for something he thought I deserved. I was just happy he asked!

Year's later, he gave me a rock when I gave birth to our daughter. Funny thing is, the first ring still means soooo much more to me.

The meaning of MY ring: We embrace each other during good and bad times.

I think that's what it's about. Not feeling entitled the way some seem to.

 

[needtogetaas]

Wedding rings are smaller versions of a collar.

makes sense in a way.

 

[Bikini Mod]

So I guess then that the moral of the story is:

Any engagement ring's worth is NOT measured by the admirer, but rather, by the owner?

Works for me.

 

[Jon79]

i would want to buy a big fucking rock

 

[Bikini Mod]

makes sense in a way.

Not really as the commitment is SUPPOSED to come from within and not something that restrains you externally.

I remain faithfull not because of a choke-collar as I am married with or without the ring. I remain faithfull because I am too fucking proud to feed another man's ego by degrading MY promise. I would rather DIE than do that.



Told ya'll I am one stubborn bitch.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

Symbol of love?
Symbol of willingness to sacrifice?

What do you think it really means when people see metal and rock glittering on a woman's hand?


I just want to add that this is not a thread to flame anyone ideas or desires.

Attention whoreses.

 

[TC2]

Yes, but only with this. I’m not superficial in any way, I don’t care about a big house, faster car or being wealthy (Money means shit to me), but as for a rock, I feel at this age, I deserve the best and biggest!

I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

you DESERVE the best and biggest??????

That in a nutshell is why women are so fucked up now a days. This ridiculous sense of entitlement.

 

[Bikini Mod]

I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

you DESERVE the best and biggest??????

That in a nutshell is why women are so fucked up now a days. This ridiculous sense of entitlement.

Even if HER MAN *wants* to give it to her?