Since I'm generally annoyed at how we build these actresses up and then dispose of them for no reason other than than a mixture of boredom and fashion, I can't snark the interview.

Same here - 37 years ago. We had an engagement ring (small) made for our 30th anniversary. I had a wedding band made for him on our 2oth anniversary. The jewelry just didn't mean that much to us at the start. Loved it later.

My wife and I got engaged over the phone in a conversation that basically went: "We've been together for years. Maybe we should get married." "Eh, sure, why not." "Ok, so I suppose that means we're engaged now." We also didn't buy rings because we decided we would rather spend our money on a trip somewhere. We've…

We also got accidentally engaged when talking about his divorce, and he announced "You know what insanity is? Doing the same thing over again and expecting different results!" with a big shit-eating grin on his face. The ring was one we picked out together, and the price point was specified as "no more than a car…

We pretty much came to a conclusion that we were engaged as well. We had plans to marry the following year (next year) as early as March or April of this year but we didn't really put "pen to paper" so to speak until I was leaving the country to do dissertation research and was like, "Can I just say you're my fiance…

My folks have been married for 31 years and my mom has quite the sparkler. Then again, they got married when they were older so they could afford a nicer engagement set, which they had custom made. So, no worries, I think it just depends on the couple and their expectations. I think a lot of women want the rings for…

We'd been dating less than year when my now husband said, sort of out of the blue, "I'm going to spend the rest of my life with you." Not forceful, just . . . like you said, a realization. That was five years before he gave me a ring, but we consider ourselves engaged from that day. Celebrated our 7th anniversary…

Yeah, I didn't get engaged. We just went ahead and got married. We split the cost evenly: one hundred euro for rings, one hundred for the registrar's office, three hundred to feed everyone at the local pub. We spent the most on our honeymoon, but that was still less than the prices they're talking in this article.…

I doubt it. We were engaged, and when we found my wedding ring, we discovered it came in a set, so I got the engagement ring, then. DH found his wedding ring while we were on our honeymoon. We are seriously organized. LOL

I got engaged while picking out produce.

I had a manger who got engaged the same way. She and her then-boyfriend were discussing marriage issues (where to live, when to have kids, how many) and then she said "Does this mean we're engaged?"
Six years later they were married.

Let's not make fun of mental illness, please.

Depends on who you ask.

Blame Harvard, though. Harvard is a private business. If they want to sell degrees to people with more money than test scores and thus undermine any semblance of meritocracy for their elite brand, that's their own problem.

I liked Battleship.

"... preaching at him (and potentially sabotaging what sounds like a good relationship)..."

It's pretty offensive to the UAE too. They're our ally and our pundits are treating their accomplishments like this? It's offensive on so many levels.

Just coming to pay my respects and mourn the loss of the one thing I believed in.

You mean like the thousands of movies that are made in Africa by Africans that you probably never watch because you don't actually care?

"All of the sentences were suspended for three years."