Today, my very cheap boyfriend of four years proposed. I was overwhelmed with emotion, since he bought such a huge, seemingly-diamond ring. I was later overwhelmed with emotion when my finger turned green. FML
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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
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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 bought me a beautiful pair of very expensive diamond earrings, along with a card that read, "To my beautiful brown eyed Princess." My ears aren't pierced, and my eyes are green. FML
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Today, my boyfriend proposed with the biggest, tackiest, most Geordie Shore-style ring I’ve ever seen. I said yes because I love him, but this thing is twice as wide as my finger and just looks horrible compared to the solitaire ring I told him I really liked. I’m embarrassed to be seen wearing it. FML
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kleider1 9
he might have actually saved up for it and gotten ripped off.
cablemirc 2
your cheap boyfriend is just that, cheap. and you know it, so take it or leave it, he is who he is. did you really expect extravagance?
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simoncat 11
Trade up. Dump the cheapskate.
TacoBelle 8
This is what you can probably expect for the rest of your life with him. Decide if you can be on board with his "frugal" ways or if it'll only make you feel unappreciated and cheap.
Ameel_fml 19
I'm surprised so many people are saying the OP should just be grateful she even got a ring or that she should be happy that her boyfriend lied to her. Sure, you don't have to spend a lot of money on an engagement ring, but buying a cheap piece of junk jewelery shows what sort of value he has on the relationship imo. An engagement ring symbolizes a want to be with someone forever. You want to be with this person for the rest of your life, they mean more to you than any other person. Why WOULDN'T you want to splurge a bit to by something that isn't a worthless piece of junk? Why would you want your fiance/wife to be embarrassed when someone inevitably points out her ring is a cheap piece of crap? And hell, engagement rings don't always have to be extravagant and ridiculously priced. You can buy pretty rings from the jeweler for $100-200. Tiffany and Co. is currently selling a gorgeous engraved "I love you" ring for only $170.
fleur_de_fevrier_fml 23
I agree with you. The thing is OP knows he’s cheap but she still managed to stay with him 4 years so this cannot have bothered her so badly. Knowing him, how could she really expect an expensive ring? I’m a girl and I don’t get this obsession with expensive engagement ring either. That’s not how you value love. When my fiancé and I went ring shopping, I said that I didn’t want to spend more than 50 € (around 60 $) on the ring, for the simple reason that I’d rather put money towards the wedding / honeymoon. Plus, if I ever lose it, I will only be sad over the emotional attachment, not also because I just lost 500 eur.
charm4eva 8
I agree that it's upsetting that he wasn't upfront about the ring not being real. We don't really know the guy's intention when he got the ring. He could have just gotten it from a thrift store and didn't realize it was not real. Maybe OP mentioned something in the past that indicated that she didn't want anything less than a certain size (I have friends who claimed they wouldn't marry their guys if the diamond was less than 2 carats). Without knowing the whole story, I don't feel right to judge either one of them. But to me, my love for my boyfriend matters more. I was just telling him the other day that if we both want to spend our lives together, I'd marry him even if he could only afford a silver ring. And I'd much rather have the money spent more wisely (like the down payment of a house) than him getting me a huge diamond.
Dixbfloppin 11
Times are tough. No, but seriously, he could have at least told the truth.
panda_lou 11
Everybody knows you buy a real band of at least white gold and buy a fake rock. No green finger and a happy wife.
panda_lou 11
I just realized they never said that the rock was a fake, just that the band was copper based. Maybe he sprung for a real diamond but figured the band wouldn't matter?
weatherxveins 29
Do they even put real diamonds on bands that cheap?
catatonicsleep 17
not usually... they only use real ones on silver, gold, white gold or platinum. Most places don't advertise engagement rings in silver only the golds or platinum but you can design your own or find a ring to use as an engagement ring that isn't from the engagement section of the store.
rokahh 2
Ever think that money might be tight for him?
miss_sqwert 19
Gosh he could of at lest got u real gold or silver with cubic z
mariebc123 7
If hes cheap leave him. Your fault.