Cost of ring (American, mature, looking, relations)
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Oh, and FTR, any man I'd marry would know better than to buy me a diamond. I don't want blood on my hands. If you're going to spend a wad of cash on a diamond, just send it directly to Joseph Kony and be done with it.
Diamonds are overpriced paperweights. A totally manipulated market to fleece the fools.
It's an expensive piece of jewelry. Whether you spend 3k or 30k? It's not cheap.
The only considerations should be what you can pay and what you are willing to pay.
You are with a woman whose friends have higher-end engagement rings. It is not odd that she might desire something similar.
It is, however, unrealistic of her to expect this sort of ring from you if it simply is not in your budget.
That aspect of her personality should be a red flag to you (assuming a more expensive ring is indeed out of your price range).
If, however, you make as much money (and have the means) to purchase her a ring that is similar to the ones that her circle of engaged/married friends wear, and you simply do not WANT to spend the money on the ring?
I suggest you reconsider this woman and this relationship.
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I agree with much of what you say here, but I would not be so quick to write any of this off as merely "low class and materialistic."
Many younger women are simply that. Young.
They are very much caught up in peer groups and image. It's not because they are horrible people.
I think that is an oversimplification.
And that loss/theft thing? This is why we insure our valuables.
Thanks, but I do understand how insurance works.
It would still be the shock of a lifetime to lose, or have stolen, any item worth tens of thousands of dollars - especially a wedding ring. At least it would be for me.
I don't need to hear the market theories needed to justify people's buying decsions thank you. Diamonds are a dirty business. Why people support it is beyond me.
It would still be the shock of a lifetime to lose, or have stolen, any item worth tens of thousands of dollars - especially a wedding ring. At least it would be for me.
Well, naturally.
I'd be alarmed to lose a wedding ring, regardless of the cost.
I guess that's why I don't think it matters that it is more expensive. Lost is lost.
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I don't need to hear the market theories needed to justify people's buying decsions thank you. Diamonds are a dirty business. Why people support it is beyond me.
And that has what to do with the OP?
He clearly has no issue with buying a diamond... Merely the financial expectations of his intended.
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I'd be alarmed to lose a wedding ring, regardless of the cost.
I guess that's why I don't think it matters that it is more expensive. Lost is lost.
OK, whatever you say.
Personally, I'd be dismayed by the loss of ANY wedding band. But I'd be horrified and shocked and probably have to go to bed for half a day if I lost anything - a wedding band or an autographed letter from Abraham Lincoln or a piece of machinery - that cost tens of thousands of dollars.
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