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Hoping I did the right thing

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joCmummy · 12/12/2019 13:57

Ok so basically I want someone to tell me I'm not insane as OH supports but doesn't understand my decision.

Here's the back story. I was given a ring for my 16th birthday by my grandparents (no longer here). I loved that ring soo much and wore it everyday for everything, my wedding, birth of DDS etc.

Last year I lost the sapphire from it. I looked everywhere but couldn't find it. I felt sad. So I decided to replace the stone.
I went to pick it up and forgot my purse so had to go back. 24hours after I got it back bad things started to happen. OH had flu over Xmas, I had flu and cracked a rib coughing. The kids got chicken pox, OH got shingles, horse coliced, I then had a chest infection, suspected asthma and another chest infection. There's other stuff too. I just couldn't look at the ring without thinking of all the bad luck that happened since I got it back.
Finally decided to sell it. It went today. I miss what my ring was but at the end of the day it's a piece of jewellery that I no longer associated with living grandparents, just a new gem that came at the same time as a bad year. Am I nuts?

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Itsashame · 12/12/2019 13:59

Yes I think so op! It was nothing to do with the ring but if you’re happy with the decision to let it go then that’s all the matters

sarahjconnor · 12/12/2019 14:09

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joCmummy · 12/12/2019 14:22

I guess it's part superstition and partly just looking at it remembering all the bad things from since I lost the original stone. I kinda wish I'd just not replaced the stone but what's done is done. I'm kinda sad it's gone but in reality I miss the original ring not the repaired job I actually sold.

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its2019ffs · 12/12/2019 15:32

My mum is like this, she truly believes that certain pieces of jewellery cause arguments when the person wears it (nothing to do with my narcissistic father nooo)

She was also convince my nans car was a bad omen because for the three years she had it a person from the family died every year.

I think it's her way of coping with shitty news, it's much easier to blame something than deal with the reality that shit things happen and life is all chaos that is out of our control

FGSJoanWhatsWrongWithYou · 12/12/2019 15:34

It symbolised a good thing but events caused it to instead symbolise bad times. YANBU.

Gibbonsgibbonsgibbons · 12/12/2019 15:38

It’s just a way for you to try to feel you have control over the uncontrollable. Of course a ring isn’t spreading viruses etc

Regardless I hope you have a better run of things going forward Flowers

ohwheniknow · 12/12/2019 15:39

Ok.

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