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Any married women on here who don’t wear a wedding ring?

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Ophanim · 09/05/2022 06:27

I’ve been married for many years. I got proposed to with an engagement ring which I wore, and when we got married we both exchanged rings. For years I wore both my engagement and wedding ring put but after a few years I stopped wearing my engagement ring because it got caught on things. Several years ago I took my wedding ring off and I can’t really remember why.
For probably the past two years I found that I really do not want to wear a wedding ring again and I don’t know why. Is this unusual? Are there other women who feel the same way? If so, what are your reasons for it wearing a wedding ring?
DH doesn’t wear his wedding because he says it no longer fits due to weight increase. Mine no longer fits due to the same reason, but although I could get it resized so that it fits I have no desire to do so

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NewYearNewName22 · 10/05/2022 08:54

I don't wear one. I have ADHD and am prone to losing things, and I inherited mine from a relative, it's too precious to lose. I have bought substitute ones in the past and have worn them for a while, but have now lost them all.

I'm also very sensitive about things touching my skin, it just feels horrible and wrong, I don't wear any kind of jewellery on the whole. Maybe a necklace for a planned night out, but then my skin breaks out so it's all a waste of time, really.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 10/05/2022 09:10

The only reason I don’t wear mine is that it got too tight and I still haven’t got round to having it made a bit bigger.

I do wear the other ring he gave me - an engagement-type ring but I never had one of those - it was a right-after-2nd-baby ring.,
Might add that a (non Brit) neighbour said, ‘You got that for a girl?’

Atl · 10/05/2022 10:51

StarlightLady · 10/05/2022 06:21

Opposite situation here, I am not married but wear a wedding ring. I flash it from time to time to try and ward off male attention when it is unwanted. If the attention is wanted, I can explain why I wear it.

That's similar to what I do. Though I am still legally married, but separated. I do draw the line at using my old wedding ring, however, so engagement ring it has been.

Sounds a bit stupid to say but I think I feel more inspired not to wear it again after this thread.

Interested in this thread?

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MarieIVanArkleStinks · 10/05/2022 11:20

I don't think it matters. It doesn't make you any less married. YOU know you are, and the outside world doesn't need a symbol.

SweetPetrichor · 10/05/2022 11:39

Not married yet, but I don't wear my engagement ring on a daily basis. I don't like the feeling of rings. I wear it for special occasions or days when I'm dressing nice but on a normal day it stays home.

thesugarbumfairy · 10/05/2022 11:56

I don't, but only because I had my rings cut off for an MRI about 3 years ago as they wouldn't come off otherwise ( I'm 5 stones heavier than I was in 2005) It hasn't really bothered me but DH asks now and again if I'll put them back on. I need them resizing first though. DH has never worn his. Doesn't bother me in the slightest. I do like my engagement ring though so I must try to remember to visit the jewellers...

LeeMucklowesCurtains · 10/05/2022 12:13

Me.

I have a phobia of jewellery. I have never worn any.

I hate dh wearing a wedding ring. I can’t stand it. Thankfully he wears no other jewellery or I couldn’t be with him, but if I brush his hand with the ring on, it makes me feel sick.

LeeMucklowesCurtains · 10/05/2022 12:15

People get odd about it. His aunt refused to come to the wedding reception as we didn’t have the swap rings bit in the ceremony. She threw such a tantrum.

DreamingofItaly2023 · 10/05/2022 12:25

My fingers swell horribly in the heat so I don’t wear rings from May to September. Never caused any issues at all.

LeeMucklowesCurtains · 10/05/2022 12:26

My friend videod the register office ceremony. At the end, dh aunt shouts out “the rings! you forgot the rings? What’s wrong with you?” to the registrar. She had a voice like Hyacinth Bucket.

MIL kicks her ankle and mouths “shut up!”

It’s really funny to look back on.

mupten426132 · 10/05/2022 12:26

Me and my husband both don’t wear rings, we both work in the health sector though , even though wedding rings are allowed, I find plastic gloves a pain to wear with a ring on

toomanybooksonmybookcase · 10/05/2022 12:30

I don't even have one. Neither does DH.

But then seeing as our 'ceremony' was signing a piece of paper in the registrars office with 2 staff as witnesses we did without the vows and exchanging of the rings stuff anyway. I was wearing a pair of jeans iirc.
And I don't have DH's surname either. My passport still says Miss Books and it'll stay that way.

Reallyreallyborednow · 10/05/2022 14:06

It hasn't really bothered me but DH asks now and again if I'll put them back on. I need them resizing first though. DH has never worn his

if your dh never wears his, why is he so concerned about whether you wear yours?

surely the answer is I’ll think about wearing them when you start wearing yours.

LemonDrizzles · 10/05/2022 18:21

When I was my hand at work, they never dry properly and I get horrible blisters, so I have to not wear it for long periods.

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