Trust me that's not completely true. If your both gamers then it's a match made in heaven.

I agree with #114 seeing as how I'm 22 and my boyfriend is 24 and we both adore gaming. It's different when they pawn your stuff for their own gaming equipment though, of course. :P

I don't think you understand how pawn shops work. They don't give you the full price back. For jewelry they don't even give you a quarter of what it's worth.

He gave a way a symbol of love so that he could play video games. That's so heartless, if he wanted it so bad then he should of pawned something that belonged to him or he could of done what any rational person would do and saved and waited. Instead he jeopardized their entire relationship for a ps4. That's not very useful in the end.

You don't take a gift back. That would be like a friend taking a birthday present they gave you back.

Once you give a gift, it legally belongs to the recipient. Courts have consistently held that engagement rings are the property of the party to whom they are given, whether that person accepts the proposal or not.

That depends on the state. Some states do have the "conditional" thing, where it goes back to the giver, if the recipient breaks off the engagement. However, if you look into court cases and check about whether or not the give has the right to take the recipient's ring and dispose of it before the wedding takes place, you'll probably find the court siding with the recipient. Moreover, never propose around Christmas, Valentine's Day, or the recipient's birthday, as courts HAVE declared the engagement ring to be an outright gift, rather than a conditional gift, due to it being presented as a gift at a gift-giving occasion. If you want to maintain the conditionality of the gift, then give it to her at least two weeks away from any recognized gift-giving time. The thing about pawning jewelry is that, yes, you can get it back, but there are time limits. If he can't save up the money to get the ring back, and he'll have to pay even more than he got for it (charging interest is how pawn shops make money), then the will forfeit his right to reclaim the ring, and it will be sold. That's how other people manage to pick up cheap stuff at pawn shops - from people who didn't redeem their loans. As to how he got it, my guess is that she took it off while washing dishes, or maybe during a shower, and he swiped it then. Most women have a specific place to put their ring when they have to remove it, due to slippery jobs, like washing, or messy jobs, like kneading dough, and then they don't lose the ring, and just retrieve it when the job is done. So if he knew about it, it would be easy enough to swipe it, then.