OT: Engagement Rings

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[quote=Russell]We didn’t do any engagement ring. I had been going dutch on all dates or going without for years in advance of meeting my wife. I guess that was a good preparation for not meeting too many gold diggers. Made it natural that my soul mate would be offended by the diamond engagement ring thing for all the reasons discussed including by the OP. She has a modern sense of gender justice.

We bought cheap bands. I like my band because it shows people what I am doing with my life. It also helps women deal with my animal magnetism. I had the ring charged to suppress the attraction field. I had my face rearranged to be asymmetrical too. Anthropologists believe that sturdy and symmetrical features indicate good genetics and attract females in estrus, which I would unnaturally wish to avoid in a modern civilized society.

My wife works with lots of people from many walks of life and education levels and didn’t want to deal with the confusion of her having children and not having a ring indicating she was approved to do so. I put a tattoo on her neck that says “touch at the risk of disembowelment”. This is in case guys don’t honor that the ring means she is my property.[/quote]

LMAO!

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[quote=davelj]I’m seeing answers of all kinds regarding how the engagement ring issue was handled. Go back and re-read the posts. No, there’s not a single woman who has said here that she wouldn’t marry a guy without an engagement ring – despite this site’s anonymity, it would be naive to expect that level of honesty from many folks (if, in fact, that’s how they feel). [/quote]

For the record. I would have married my husband without an engagement ring. He gave me one – which I am sappy about and cherish because it’s from him… but it wasn’t a deal breaker in any way. I absolutely would have accepted his proposal without the ring.

but he would have had to change his proposal. He proposed with a 3-d viewmaster reel – I was looking through it at pictures of his trip to Istanbul and the last picture was a stereo picture of the ring with my first name and his last name and a question mark captioned below the picture. I guess he could have done just the caption… The answer would have been the same.

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[quote=davelj]I’m seeing answers of all kinds regarding how the engagement ring issue was handled. Go back and re-read the posts. No, there’s not a single woman who has said here that she wouldn’t marry a guy without an engagement ring – despite this site’s anonymity, it would be naive to expect that level of honesty from many folks (if, in fact, that’s how they feel). [/quote]

For the record. I would have married my husband without an engagement ring. He gave me one – which I am sappy about and cherish because it’s from him… but it wasn’t a deal breaker in any way. I absolutely would have accepted his proposal without the ring.

but he would have had to change his proposal. He proposed with a 3-d viewmaster reel – I was looking through it at pictures of his trip to Istanbul and the last picture was a stereo picture of the ring with my first name and his last name and a question mark captioned below the picture. I guess he could have done just the caption… The answer would have been the same.

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[quote=davelj]I’m seeing answers of all kinds regarding how the engagement ring issue was handled. Go back and re-read the posts. No, there’s not a single woman who has said here that she wouldn’t marry a guy without an engagement ring – despite this site’s anonymity, it would be naive to expect that level of honesty from many folks (if, in fact, that’s how they feel). [/quote]

For the record. I would have married my husband without an engagement ring. He gave me one – which I am sappy about and cherish because it’s from him… but it wasn’t a deal breaker in any way. I absolutely would have accepted his proposal without the ring.

but he would have had to change his proposal. He proposed with a 3-d viewmaster reel – I was looking through it at pictures of his trip to Istanbul and the last picture was a stereo picture of the ring with my first name and his last name and a question mark captioned below the picture. I guess he could have done just the caption… The answer would have been the same.

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[quote=davelj]I’m seeing answers of all kinds regarding how the engagement ring issue was handled. Go back and re-read the posts. No, there’s not a single woman who has said here that she wouldn’t marry a guy without an engagement ring – despite this site’s anonymity, it would be naive to expect that level of honesty from many folks (if, in fact, that’s how they feel). [/quote]

For the record. I would have married my husband without an engagement ring. He gave me one – which I am sappy about and cherish because it’s from him… but it wasn’t a deal breaker in any way. I absolutely would have accepted his proposal without the ring.

but he would have had to change his proposal. He proposed with a 3-d viewmaster reel – I was looking through it at pictures of his trip to Istanbul and the last picture was a stereo picture of the ring with my first name and his last name and a question mark captioned below the picture. I guess he could have done just the caption… The answer would have been the same.

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[quote=davelj]I’m seeing answers of all kinds regarding how the engagement ring issue was handled. Go back and re-read the posts. No, there’s not a single woman who has said here that she wouldn’t marry a guy without an engagement ring – despite this site’s anonymity, it would be naive to expect that level of honesty from many folks (if, in fact, that’s how they feel). [/quote]

For the record. I would have married my husband without an engagement ring. He gave me one – which I am sappy about and cherish because it’s from him… but it wasn’t a deal breaker in any way. I absolutely would have accepted his proposal without the ring.

but he would have had to change his proposal. He proposed with a 3-d viewmaster reel – I was looking through it at pictures of his trip to Istanbul and the last picture was a stereo picture of the ring with my first name and his last name and a question mark captioned below the picture. I guess he could have done just the caption… The answer would have been the same.

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[quote=davelj]it would be naive to expect that level of honesty from many folks[/quote]

Agreed. That was why I asked what your expectations were. Seems a y/n question like this with some emotional baggage attached to it would be best suited as a poll. That is if you are truly interested in the answer and not just the banter.

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[quote=davelj]it would be naive to expect that level of honesty from many folks[/quote]

Agreed. That was why I asked what your expectations were. Seems a y/n question like this with some emotional baggage attached to it would be best suited as a poll. That is if you are truly interested in the answer and not just the banter.

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[quote=davelj]it would be naive to expect that level of honesty from many folks[/quote]

Agreed. That was why I asked what your expectations were. Seems a y/n question like this with some emotional baggage attached to it would be best suited as a poll. That is if you are truly interested in the answer and not just the banter.

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[quote=davelj]it would be naive to expect that level of honesty from many folks[/quote]

Agreed. That was why I asked what your expectations were. Seems a y/n question like this with some emotional baggage attached to it would be best suited as a poll. That is if you are truly interested in the answer and not just the banter.

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[quote=davelj]it would be naive to expect that level of honesty from many folks[/quote]

Agreed. That was why I asked what your expectations were. Seems a y/n question like this with some emotional baggage attached to it would be best suited as a poll. That is if you are truly interested in the answer and not just the banter.

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[quote=CBad][quote=davelj]it would be naive to expect that level of honesty from many folks[/quote]

Agreed. That was why I asked what your expectations were. Seems a y/n question like this with some emotional baggage attached to it would be best suited as a poll. That is if you are truly interested in the answer and not just the banter.[/quote]

Apparently the polls have been conducted on a larger scale:

http://answers.google.com/answers/thread…

Which I wouldn’t have bothered looking up had I not started this thread.

So, a poll is unnecessary – apparently there have already been plenty of them conducted outside of Piggington.

So, I guess that leaves the banter. Which I’m enjoying.

[davelj]

[quote=CBad][quote=davelj]it would be naive to expect that level of honesty from many folks[/quote]

Agreed. That was why I asked what your expectations were. Seems a y/n question like this with some emotional baggage attached to it would be best suited as a poll. That is if you are truly interested in the answer and not just the banter.[/quote]

Apparently the polls have been conducted on a larger scale:

http://answers.google.com/answers/thread…

Which I wouldn’t have bothered looking up had I not started this thread.

So, a poll is unnecessary – apparently there have already been plenty of them conducted outside of Piggington.

So, I guess that leaves the banter. Which I’m enjoying.

[davelj]

[quote=CBad][quote=davelj]it would be naive to expect that level of honesty from many folks[/quote]

Agreed. That was why I asked what your expectations were. Seems a y/n question like this with some emotional baggage attached to it would be best suited as a poll. That is if you are truly interested in the answer and not just the banter.[/quote]

Apparently the polls have been conducted on a larger scale:

http://answers.google.com/answers/thread…

Which I wouldn’t have bothered looking up had I not started this thread.

So, a poll is unnecessary – apparently there have already been plenty of them conducted outside of Piggington.

So, I guess that leaves the banter. Which I’m enjoying.

[davelj]

[quote=CBad][quote=davelj]it would be naive to expect that level of honesty from many folks[/quote]

Agreed. That was why I asked what your expectations were. Seems a y/n question like this with some emotional baggage attached to it would be best suited as a poll. That is if you are truly interested in the answer and not just the banter.[/quote]

Apparently the polls have been conducted on a larger scale:

http://answers.google.com/answers/thread…

Which I wouldn’t have bothered looking up had I not started this thread.

So, a poll is unnecessary – apparently there have already been plenty of them conducted outside of Piggington.

So, I guess that leaves the banter. Which I’m enjoying.

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