Today, my boyfriend won a diamond engagement ring through a citywide competition. Instead of proposing to me, he's selling it. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I was out with my boyfriend, when he started browsing wedding rings. He found a ring, proposed to me right there in front of a crowd, and then was promptly denied a payment plan. We left without a ring. FML
Today, my boyfriend told me he's prepared to commit to marriage, but only if I buy my own ring and tell everyone he surprised me with it. FML
Today, my boyfriend proposed to me by tossing the ring at me and saying "Here, wear this." FML
Today, my boyfriend proposed. He said we’d go pick up the ring tomorrow. Then he asked to borrow $40 to get it out of pawn. He pawned it when his ex gave it back to him. FML
Today, my boyfriend and I went shopping for an engagement ring. We ended up breaking up in the process. FML
Today, I found out my boyfriend was going to propose. He'd bought me a beautiful white gold ring that I never got to see. His estranged mom stole the ring. FML
Today, my boyfriend proposed to me with the prettiest, most simple ring I have ever seen. I called my sister to tell her the good news, and her response was, "I know. He had me steal the ring from Claire's." FML
Today, my boyfriend of 4 years proposed to me. I said yes and he gave me an engagement ring. He immediately went to call his mom to tell her the happy news. After the phone call, he asked if he could return the ring because his mom needed money. FML
Today, my boyfriend finally proposed. His reason? A Las Vegas wedding came up on Groupon. FML
Today, my boyfriend gave me the most beautiful diamond ring I have ever seen. As I excitedly put it on my finger, he told me it wasn't an engagement ring, but I should wear it like one to keep other men away and seem "unapproachable". FML
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The_Big_Boss 20
He is not obligated to propose just because he won a ring. Sorry
grossn 12
Maybe he isn't ready for marriage
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Comments (236)
Lonely_islands 5
I can't but help imagine that if he did propose to you, especially since you've only been dating 2 weeks, that you would say no, dump him and storm out. unless you really really love him. but I doubt you'd know that after just 2 weeks.
llama612 27
Where did you get that they were dating for 2 weeks?
Lonely_islands 5
I read the comments
Zomg_Okay 27
86 - The person who said that wasn't OP.
llama612 27
I also read the comments. As the other person pointed out that wasn't OP. I would like to know though how long they have been together would give people a bit more clearer picture of the situation.
Lonely_islands 5
oh. I guess I didn't notice it wasn't OP. then I too would like to know how ling they've been together.
AllieCat21 21
Did it ever cross your mind that maybe he isn't ready for marriage yet? Perhaps he entered the competition to get the ring and sell it for money in the first place. Stop being selfish, realize that he now has extra money to use for a variety of things.
Llama_Face89 34
I would never give a girl a ring I won. Somehow it doesn't strike me as meaning as much as one I picked out myself.
rlTlk 13
Sigh, it's just a ring. If it was worth that much, yeah, I'd sell it. If he proposed to me with it, I'd be flattered but pissed he wasted so much money on something so asinine. You remind me of a friend of mines fiancé who made him sell his super nice car that he'd spent years making himself, just to buy her a wedding ring. I was so disgusted at her but he did it just to please her anyways, even though he loved that car and resents it. It was a power play, a test at its best, and lowest level of greed on her part. Especially now that he has a junker car and she bitches about that. Yea that marriage will last...
ksks1234 33
I agree that it is stupid to spend a lot of money on a ring. I expect my guy to spend $50, tops. But your friend kind of deserves to be bitched at for driving a clunker. He sold his car because she demanded it? I realize that love is blind and it can make you do stupid things, but she sounds high maintenance and he sounds like he puts up with and encourages it.
rlTlk 13
Oh I agree fully. He shouldn't have done it. But if course everyone's answer is "it's just a car he should love his wife more than his car" but she should never had made him do that and he shouldn't be so submissive to her demands. She is extremely controlling and manipulative I disapprove if their marriage 100% because she mistreats him but he doesn't see it that way and he loves her so I guess that's his decision to make and if he's happy I guess that's all that matters.
queerdragon 20
Oh, hell no. My car is my baby. I commented above about winning two bikes, selling them, and using the money to buy a cheaper bike and pay bills. My ex boyfriend sounds like he might be related to your friend, because I got bitched at for not giving him the bike and being a good girlfriend and paying off HIS debt when I had my own. I am now living comfortable, debt free (except minor things like phone bills and rent), and he is living with his mother $50,000 in the hole. I hate controlling men and women.
rlTlk 13
Yea if you won those bikes they were yours to sell, especially if as in your previous comment, you two did not live together not share expenses. If you guys had entered together maybe I can see him wanting them, but you said you bought a cheaper bike so you still got a bike out if the deal. And a ton of money! I'd love the bikes but sometimes you gotta do what's smart. I'd sell that ring too, I'd tell my bf to sell it. But the fact that its specifically an engagement ring would put idea into a persons head no matter how hard they tried not to. If OP's bf was not planning on proposing he should have avoided that specific contest or made it super clear it was just for the prize and nothing to do with her that he's not ready for marriage. Or who knows maybe he is ready and is using the money from this to achieve that. If this FML is just about wanting the expensive ring OP is being selfish, if its about being hurt that she had reasonable expectations of a proposal than yes FHL.
queerdragon 20
I can totally understand being upset. I won a trip to Hawaii one time, and gave it to my friend as a wedding present because she could not afford the trip herself. They used it as a honeymoon. My mother got mad because she always wanted to go to Hawaii and thought, without asking me if I would let her have the tickets, that we were going to go as a mother-daughter time. She ended up being really upset when we could not go. But she understood, when I explained why I did it. So, now, when I do enter a contest and someone wants the prize, they always ask me before getting their hopes up. I have yet to win again, the bikes and Hawaii seem to be my good luck for life. But yeah, the boyfriend should have communicated with her.
frizz101 22
To those people who think selling it is a good idea obviously don't know the resale value of rings, he would be lucky to get $100 for a $1,000 ring. Yeah he doesn't have to propose, but citywide competitions, from my experience, don't have different prizes, usually just multiple of one prize. And if all he could have won is an engagement ring, which have very low resale value, why would he have entered if not to win so he could propose? Even if he doesn't want to get married yet he could give it to a friend who wants to propose to his girlfriend, give it to OP as a promise ring, or when he did enter he could have told OP his intentions were not to propose, a lot of things need to be cleared up.
lastbutnotleast 3
at least he told you instead of having you wonder! give him credit OP
rlTlk 13
#90 I think the while reason OP is hurt is because he didn't make it clear in the first place. He entered a contest to win an engagement ring, she obviously knew about this. Then instead if proposing sold it.. If he had told her he was entering the contest just for the cash off the prize there would be no FML here.
llama612 27
@149. It's actually quite possible he never told OP he entered the compitition. He could have just randomly entered it for the hell of it, without even thinking he was going to win it. So when he won it he was like oh sweet and told his GF he had won because he was excited to have won something like this. The whole impression I got from this was that on the day he won it he didn't propose to OP which is why she is upset because he is selling it instead. There actually isn't enough information in OPs FML for it to be obvious she knew about it.
CrazyMelvin 14
You're pretty selfish if you expected the ring. He should dump your a** to the curb. You are too needy and high maintenance.
lastbutnotleast 3
I agree you shouldn't expect a proposal just because your boyfriend won an engagement ring!
rlTlk 13
Alright, FYL. Idk if you two have talked about marriage or if he is planning on proposing with a different ring, but if a bf of a long time entered a competition to win an engagement ring, obviously any girl would make big assumptions. It wouldn't even be a big assumption to think your bf who entered that contest was planning on proposing.. Now if he didn't enter specifically for that prize, it was just one of the prizes that's different.. I agree with his decision to sell, that money could be better used elsewhere, like helping pay for a wedding, honey moon, down payment on a house, or a car? Idk how much it was worth but an sorry he got your hopes up to let you down. I wish you two the best and maybe nows the cue if you haven't before to talk about the idea of marriage.
MaySFML 4
Why should he propose?