Do Girls want a huge engagement ring...

[angllady2]

Coming from a woman whose husband was never well off and never will be, ring size should mean diddly squat.

If she loves you the tab off a soda can should make her want to say yes.

The diamond in my engagement ring is so small, you need a magnifying glass to see it, and I'm not kidding either. But when the man I love offered it to me, I thought it was the greatest thing since the Hope Diamond.

We picked out our wedding bands together, put them on a Zale's credit card and spent the next 3 years paying them off, and to this day I wouldn't want anything else.

What on earth would I want with a giant diamond anyway? They get hung on everything as you go about your daily life. It's just begging to get stolen. No one in their right mind wants to clean baby spit up or worse out of the crevasses of a fancy ring. And if you don't clean it well enough, then your hand smells like a used diaper. EWWW!

What does she want a big ring for ? To prove you love her ? As if. So she can brag to all her friends about the expensive ring she made you buy ? Are you marrying her or her friends ? If she measures her love by the amount of money you spend on her, it will never be enough. First a big ring, then an expensive elaborate wedding, next a ridiculously expensive honeymoon, then a big house, a new car for each day of the week, a big boat because her friends don't have one yet, new fur coats, even more jewelry, it will go on and on and on.

Each time you get her something thinking, " Now she'll see I love her and be happy. " She will think, " I don't have enough, I want more, I want more, I want to see how much I can guilt him into giving me, and when he can't give me anything else nice, I'll find someone who can."

Don't walk down that path, dear. Tell her up front if her love is measured in money, she's in for a bankrupt marriage and see how long she sticks around. My husband and I don't have a lot, but what we have we work hard to have, and we love each other no matter what. The vows said for richer or poorer, and if poorer it is then so be it.

Gale