The Conquest Ring

My fiance and I broke up on reasonable terms and she gave the ring back to me. I still have it! I had bought it at a discount by taking a "no returns" deal. "She'll say yes," they assured me.

I've tried to sell it twice. The first time was to a pawn shop where the guy took the ring in the back to "examine" it, then…

My husband said that he would turn me into a diamond, set it in a ring, and give it to his new wife.

My Grandmother took all of her engagement rings (four!) and had all the stones reset in one huge cocktail ring. You can practically see that sucker from outer space.

I think this is fanfic from one of the dudes that were so sorry that they had abortions.

This has me wondering if post-partum mania is a thing. Heck, I've met a woman who was seemingly high on the hormone rush of being pregnant; the idea that someone would be high on new baby seems quite possible.

Shit, you could be talking about me. So embarrassing looking back and realizing A) I was this guy and B) this guy is fucking terrible. No excuses, though I promise that they can grow out of that bullshit.

I used to ask guys out all the time. Every single one of them was a total asshole about it...until the one who said yes, and we've been happily married for a long time.

sounds like a dick move on his part

That sounds just like my experience of college. Ugh. People were so horrified that I asked them out when I was A. female and B. unattractive. It was like they thought I was robbing them of power and agency by doing the asking. They were so certain that only men should do the asking — even when they were complaining…

People are kind of dumb like that across the board.

I've heard women use that one all the time when told that they have it relatively easy in the dating game. "Yeah, we get hit on all the time, but it's not by guys we like!"

Most jurisdictions don't really care who broke off the engagement, and NC is no different. Not only that, but Emily Post herself believed that you should return a ring if an engagement is broken, so the law AND etiquette is on my friend's side.

I know a living woman who told her son's ex-fiancee to keep the ring and give it their daughter when she was older, mostly because her son was a dirtbag who would probably sell it, but even that's not really an exception because there's not a dead mother in the story.

I feel like the only exception to that is family heirlooms. Those always should go back.

My ring is made out of organically-grown, free-range lentils and the artisans who made it actually paid me to take it off their hands.

I told my fiancé no diamonds for the same reason. I have a beautiful handmade ring that cost around $400 that people constantly confuse with a diamond anyways- even thoughit is s light aquamarine. A diamond of the same size would cost over $10,000.

This. If a guy is very nice, non-threatening and polite, he can get away with things that the average guy cannot. If a guy has social, hygiene, personality or other issues, he will seem like a creeper almost no matter what he does. It's 95% the person himself.

I was a fat girl in middle and high school.