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Cheap engagement ring. AIBU

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Georgia1105 · 31/03/2025 00:48

Hi. I’ll give you full picture, I’d really like to know others opinions on whether I’m being unreadable or not. So me and my fiancé have been together 10 years. We have 2 children together. My first engagement ring was about 6 months into our relationship. He never really ‘proposed’ to me. He just casually looked at rings and we discussed which ones I liked. I think I may have even put something towards the ring I’m not entirely sure. I was young and just happy to be proposed to. Although I have a different view now being 34 years old.. back then I was happy. Some years later we briefly separated and I told him I didn’t want to engaged. When we got back together, I said he’d have to propose again and properly. As he never officially asked me the first time. There was no emotional moment of getting down on one knee or anything like that. I believe every lady deserves that sort of effort from the man she’d be spending the rest of her life with. Anyways months later he ended up asking me to marry him when I was feeling icky, sat on my sofa with greasy hair and on my period. The kids were in the room. It wasn’t Romantic at all. I mean can this man not put any effort in? And the ring well…. He left it in the gift bag so I looked up the store he bought it from. As soon as I go onto the website … boom it’s there. The price was £379 or there abouts. So he didn’t spend much on it at all…. Nor did it seem like he put much thought into searching for a ring which I might like. Just the first one that pops up on the website. I can’t help but feel cheated out of a nice romantic proposal and a half decent ring. I can’t even stand to wear it never mind look at it. I feel angry. I’d like genuine thoughts am I being reasonable here?

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Enko · 31/03/2025 00:56

We spend £250 on mine 31 years ago and I still love to look at it. Currently in for repair as I lost a diamond of it. Will cost £150. So have spent more on repairs (had it repaired once 10 years ago) than the ring.

Do you like the ring? Is it your style? Will it work for you every day? If answers to that is yes then ignore the price.

I get feeling disappointed about a unromantic proposal.. many wont but I get that.

bridgetreilly · 31/03/2025 00:55

You’ve been together ten years and have two children. It doesn’t sound to me as though you are engaged at all, because if so, you’d have been married for years by now.

iamnotalemon · 31/03/2025 00:54

It depends on what he’s like as a dad and a partner and in the rest of your relationship.

ilovesooty · 31/03/2025 00:53

Do you even want to marry him at all?

saltandvinegarchipsticks · 31/03/2025 00:52

If you loved him and wanted to marry him, you wouldn’t care about the proposal or the ring. It doesn’t actually sound like you even like him much. Do you really want to carry on with this whole relationship?

YesThatsATurdOnTheRug · 31/03/2025 00:51

You're going to get a lot of flack I imagine but the whole thing just sounds a bit lacklustre, not very thoughtful or romantic. It's not about the cost necessarily but the effort and thought.

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