I have a date and I can't get my wedding and engagement rings off...

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What should I do?

Split from H last year. My fingers (and the rest of me) have grown significantly in the 20 years since my rings went on and there is no way of getting them off without intervention (I've tried all the washing up liquid and dental floss interventions).

Options are:

• front up with the date before I go and explain the situation in advance
• find out if I can get them cut off somehow which I don't really want to do because they were expensive
• chop off hand
• brazen it out and say nothing.

WWYD?

Go for it. I’m very invested now 😂

I mean, being pissed makes me more likely to try it but I think alcohol makes blood vessels contract and thus would make it harder to remove said ring. Disclaimer: I am not a biologist but I was told once by a piercer never to get pierced when you're drunk because you bleed more for this reason.

Ooh I like this one too!

It's giving me massive claustrophobia just looking at that situation. I would feel so trapped.

I am lucky not to be an anxiety sufferer, I know.

That’s great then!

If he is aware you’re only after a FWBs sort of situation then I doubt he’ll care whether you are over your ex or still in a relationship anyway haha.

Good luck OP I hope it goes well.

Have you ever seem the film Terminator 2?

Good luck.

Lose weight

Liquid Silk personal lubricant helps get awkward rings off your fingers.

Will it be a calamity if the truth is mentioned if/when the matter is raised? It may even be a helpful/transparent introduction as long as this small matter does not turn into a debate!! Good Luck and Enjoy the date.

My mom did this before a surgery and it worked.

Only if the rings have piles.

(sorry, couldn't resist it 🙄).

Not to say the cream won't work, but only thing I've heard of using is ice water or ice cubes rubbed over the finger for a while.

Hand in ice until you can't take it and take your hand out. Repeat a few times and squirt fairy liquid on your fingers. Then try. If no luck, in the ice again...

Put your arm inside your coat just like Lord Nelson 😂

I'd leave the rings on and explain the situation truthfully because if you did get them off you would have marks on your fingers where the rings where which might bring up some more awkward questions!

If you did get it off, it would be glaringly obvious that rings had been there, it will be pale and indented compared to the rest of your hand

Get them cut off and then either resized which is a simple process or even better, combine them and
make them into something else like a pendant.

If they’re so tight they can’t be got off then they must:
1 look hideous
2 be damaging your finger

Don’t have the time?!

It'll take less than 5 minutes!

Put your hand up in the air over your head, finger already oiled or soaped, with a pre-frozen wine cooler sleeve over it, or bag of crushed ice wrapped around it. Hold it there for as long as you can then try to take off the ring with your hand still held upright.

Or just put on a lot more rings - another one on that finger and a few on other fingers too!

Don't worry about it sweetie. I am sure he will only be concerned with something else coming off.

You'll need to take'm of one day or another. My tip : ice-pack wrapped around your hand - that you keep up! Blood flows down, so hand/fingers become thinner, nelped by the icepack. Then use some vaseline or such to slide rings of. Then de ide if and when you tell your date why you habpbe white lines over your fingers.

I'm watching this page for an update . I'm curious as to the shape of the finger once the rings have gone .
Hope your fingers not all floppy after the rings are off ... a bit like when people take stretching neck braces off and their necks flop about!

I worked as a nurse on a regional Hand trauma unit, I’m a dab hand at cutting rings off.

My fingers were itching looking at the last photo, I’d love to cut those off.

At least 50% of men would not even notice and 50% of the rest wouldn’t care. You don’t need to do anything

Get them cut off I would prefer to keep my fingers !