Women: would you marry a guy without a diamond ring?

[hanselthecaretaker]

I honestly can't say that I am tight with my money. I am the guy who blew $200 in 10 minutes at the casino while I was living paycheck to paycheck and thought nothing of it. I also haven't been back to the casino since (damn automatic card shufflers).


Money comes and goes.

You might not be able to buy a woman's affection, but you can certainly buy some incentive.

 

[Devastation]

boner, i just took you off my k list today.. i thought you were gone for good lol

 

[MattTheSkywalker]

ok, Ill bite :LOL

If a man is THAT attached to his bank account and NOT willing to part with his money for something like an engagement ring for the woman he wants to spend the rest of his life with, then it is probably indicative of a deeper problem or issue in the relationship or a problem within himself.

Frankly, Ive never heard of a man getting THAT torn up or upset about buying a ring. Its supposed to be a happy and touching moment. If I was a man, Id LOVE and be excited about picking out and buying a ring for my soon-to-be wife. Isnt that how it's supposed to be?

Especially if he has the money.

Diamonds are such a scam. They have no inherent value, are not traded as a commodity, etc.

The prices are kept high by a cartel, and are made profitable by using African kids to mine them for a dollar a week or something.

Russia has an assload of diamonds, but the cartel pays off the Russian government to limit the supply. They even paid off the USSR government.

A diamond is forever.

So is knowing that the ring you gave your girl was probably pulled from the Earth by a one armed African kid who had his other arm sliced off in a territorial war involving Ivory Coast and Liberian guerillas.

So is the fact that a handful of people have become insanely rich off of trading these things around the dead and malformed kids who mine them.

And on top of that, one or two technologicqal breakthroughs will drop the price of your $10K ring to about $11.79, when diamonds become the market equivalent of graphite.

But it's special. You love her.

Buy her a car instead.

 

[slickdadd]

I guess I just have a fundamental problem with the belief that my love or care for another person can be boiled down to a material object. Traditionally I don't really care much for or get much out of material things.

That said I certainly wouldn't get my to-be wife some insulting cheapskate ring. I'd want to get her something nice. I just don't see the reason behind a guy putting himself in massive debt and struggle to buy his wife some extravagant ring so she will marry him. That is not the type of relationship I want to be in.

 

[velvett]

I've learned to expect nothing from a man so no ring would be no big surprise.

 

[Putin]

Just wondering, that's a lot of dough.

1g, alot for ring?! no

 

[MattTheSkywalker]

I've learned to expect nothing from a man so no ring would be no big surprise.

If I asked you to marry me, I would have a big diamond in my hand. Flawless too, tastefully set so as not to be gaudy. Platinum? Probably. Maybe even palladium, which is a multiple of the cost of platinum. No expense spared.

Maybe some other stones in there too, sapphire, ruby... or maybe those would be in the necklace / bracelets that I already bought you...

But definitely no jade, since you're already jaded enough.

Damn!

 

[BUBBLES]

I've learned to expect nothing from a man so no ring would be no big surprise.

^^^^.

If I ever marry it would be for an exchange of love between him and I, not an exchange of jewelry. Jewelry giving is just a tradition which should not be forced upon anyone.

 

[Razorguns]

Technology is only about a couple years away from making man-made diamonds that are INDISTINGUISHABLE from mined-diamonds.

That is if the Diamond Mafia DeBeers doesn't put a few bullets into the companies that make 'em and end that realm right there.

The monopoly by DeBeers will end soon enough though. It's a daily struggle for them to keep a iron-first clench on the market with the internet, global economy and new technologies continually chippin' away at them. And good riddance too.

 

[Lestat]

Technology is only about a couple years away from making man-made diamonds that are INDISTINGUISHABLE from mined-diamonds.

That is if the Diamond Mafia DeBeers doesn't put a few bullets into the companies that make 'em and end that realm right there.

The monopoly by DeBeers will end soon enough though. It's a daily struggle for them to keep a iron-first clench on the market with the internet, global economy and new technologies continually chippin' away at them. And good riddance too.

how big of a rock do you need for me to propose to you?