Women buying their own "engagement" rings

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Just read an article in The Telegraph that reports this is becoming "a thing." That women are not waiting for a man but instead treating themselves to nice jewellery. Financial independence and accountability etc.
And why not?
I expressed my wishes to my now husband that I didn't want a traditional engagement ring, just in the same way that I wasn't going to change my title or last name. I certainly didn't want something expensive, or the value of x month's of salary (or whatever it is "supposed" to be). Not for me, personally.
I'm liking the shift here.

I didn’t know this was a thing but I have done it. I wanted a nice ring and figured no man would be buying me one anytime soon. But it’s 2026 and I’ve out earned any previous partners, now that I’m single there’s nothing to stop me buying my own ring. It’s a vintage sapphire ring and I wear it all the time.

To me it seems a bit of a non-story, but ‘women buying themselves what they want’ isn’t a very catchy or exciting headline, so they’ve had to shoehorn the word engagement in it. It’s not an engagement ring, they’re not engaged, and the title makes it sound a bit pathetic, ‘poor lady, nobody wants to marry her so she’s had to buy her own engagement ring and pretend’. When in reality it’s just women buying what they like. We earn our own money, we haven’t had to wait around for men to buy us expensive jewellery for a long time now.

Some of us even buy our houses without a man these days!!

@Strandas I totally agree!
I'm unsure as to whether these rings are generally worn on the ring finger of the left hand, hence them being referred to as "engagement" rings?
But if that's what a woman chooses then so what? Absolutely her choice!