Man Gifts His Gold-Digger Girlfriend A Fake Diamond Ring, Accidentally Gets His Revenge After She Attempts To Sell It
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While the internet loves a good instant karma or you had it coming story, revenge stories are certainly on that list. Add a dash of self-entitlement and a Karen into the mix and you got yourself one juicy story.
In particular, the story follows a guy—let’s call him Dave—who is planning to marry a lady, who is very appropriately named Karen for this story—you know where this is going—and she is being difficult about it all. All of this led to an unfortunate but at the same time positive ending, at least for the good guys.
The story surfaced on the r/pettyrevenge subreddit, drawing internaut attention and comments, and made some headlines online along the way.
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So, Reddit user u/rosexknight, with whom Bored Panda got in touch, shared a story where her cousin, a protagonist named ‘Dave’, was in a relationship of four years with a lady that, for the purpose of the story, was called ‘Karen’—both as a means to anonymize her, but also to explain what kind of a person she was.
Anywho, she demanded (based on “tradition”) to be given a diamond ring as a sign of marriage, hinting at how much of a gold-digger she was. Dave wasn’t too rich, but well-off. Regardless, he came up with a good alternative for that—a white sapphire ring that looks like a diamond one, if you’re not a jeweler.
This was not just because it was a sensible alternative that avoids spending a fortune, but also one that can be synthesized and doesn’t potentially involve slave labor, so hey, good-guy Dave!
Wrong. Be self entitled and get super upset when the ring isn’t “diamond”? Yep, that’s how this story goes
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“Dave wasn’t actually considering revenge at all. Many people felt that his sapphire scheme was a form of petty revenge from an unhappy relationship, but in truth he just wanted to save money ‘for more important stuff than a ring’ in his words,” explained the Reddit user.
“With COVID-19, he was afraid he would get laid off, and didn’t want to spend his savings on a ring if he was going to be without a job. But he also didn’t want Karen to think he didn’t care about her.”
“Dave told me that later down the line for their first anniversary he WAS planning on getting her a proper diamond ring. The revenge was completely accidental and Karen’s fault when she went to pawn the ring.”
Reddit user u/rosexknight shared a story of how her cousin got petty revenge over his ‘Karen’ fiance
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Well, Dave proposed, and the diamond ring demand grew into her being unsatisfied with how the pandemic turned out to be a reason why not many of the 300 planned would want to attend the wedding. She also managed to invite a bunch of people on her side of the family, excluding a lot of people on Dave’s side, and she also did so without even running her guest list by the groom. In response to this, Dave called off the wedding.
“The engagement and stuff was a very happy one until Karen let her ugly side show and they had the falling out,” elaborated Rose. “Dave wasn’t plotting revenge so much as he fell into it. He said he didn’t even think about her keeping the ring at the time because he was so focused on dealing with the fallout of the wedding being cancelled.”
While Karen kept the ring out of spite after they had fallen out, Dave eventually found out she tried to pawn the ring. This is where she also found out that it’s not diamond, but sapphire, which only fueled her dissatisfaction with the situation.
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Yes, it got worse. She bombarded Dave with calls and texts demanding he reimburse her the full price of the ring, going so far as to threaten the dude. “He and I had a good laugh listening to her tantrum,” concluded the post.
And, seeing as this story has been on the internet for a good 8 months now, we asked Rose whether there’s an update on the story. She had this to say:
“Unfortunately, there have not been any updates. Dave has since moved states to another location for his job and we keep in touch. Karen isn’t in my circle outside of Dave, so I have no idea what’s going on with her. But this is a small town, and a few of our friends follow me and saw the story. She’s now known for being the gold digger she is, and someone told me after the wedding was cancelled that she played the victim on Facebook for a while, but nothing ever came of it. Dave did get spooked when she threatened to sue him, because she has taken people to small claim’s court before. However when he spoke to a lawyer, the lawyer said she didn’t have a leg to stand on and not to worry. She never sued, and that was last year so I don’t think she will.”
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“Dave wanted to say that he saw that he got a lot of flack for not being honest with his fiancé at the time, and did admit that seeing things from an outside perspective made him realize ‘that was kind of a d@#k move on my part,'” elaborated Rose. “He said that he wanted to stress the importance of honesty in a relationship, and says he’s going to work on that for himself. He admitted that the relationship likely wouldn’t have worked out in the long run anyway, though always insists Karen is a better person than we have seen and than I have portrayed here.”
She continued: “Also, after the story blew up, someone in our town found out what pawn shop Karen went to to try and pawn the ring, and out of curiosity I went to the place to talk with them, and possibly get the ring back for Dave. The owner said that she did eventually pawn it to him, and it sold later for a good price to apparently an older couple who are regulars there. I asked him what it would be worth if it had actually been real diamonds, and he told me ‘definitely not as much as she wanted’ though didn’t give me an actual price.”
The comment section was fun to read through as well, with many praising Dave for being a smart, yet evil genius who knows how to plot revenge. By accident. But still. Others pointed out how technically if she was to sue him, it would be her who owes him, so revenge would become even sweeter. Yet others celebrated Dave’s freedom from (a) Karen.
All in all, the story got modest attention, but was discussed beyond Reddit in the form of reposts and articles on other media sides. You can check out more on the post here, but before you go, let us know your thoughts on the whole matter in the comment section below!
Here’s what people online had to say about it all
I don't understand why he'd propose to a woman if he felt it necessary to lie about the ring. He made a conscious (and smart) financial decision to not overextend his finances just to buy an extravagant ring. If they couldn't agree on such a simple household decision, how could they ever be happy together?
Exactly. Why marry someone you don't even seem to like all that much?
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I'm confused as to why this guy still proposed to this woman in the first place, to the point where he decided to be "petty" (words above, not mine) about telling her it was a diamond?
Provably, he planned to take more advantage of her in bed before ditching her.
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Sad. I've had real diamond, which I had to sell. I've re-bought rings in Diamonique from QVC and adore them. I don't worry about losing a stone or having to insure them. If I ever marry again, that's what I want. Why spend $10,000, when you can spend $50???
This is why all of my jewelry is cubic zirconia and silver/stainless steel. As I explained the false value of diamonds, I have had people wave at my multiple earrings and chastise me for wearing large black diamonds and several smaller white diamonds. I always laugh about how the sum total of my earrings is not even $30, and they could not tell the difference. I will take my extra money and buy vacations and food instead.
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It may have worked in his favor, but what he did is still dishonest and absurd. At the time, he was planning on marrying her. He deceived the woman he was going to marry. Also, he has terrible taste in women and was aware of that, wanting "revenge on her for being a Karen" while they were still together, but he still wanted to be with her.
For his benefits. Provably, he planned to take more advantage of her in bed before ditching her.
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I'm sick sick sick and tired with this Karen thing! Enough!!! We always see articles about bad behaving women mostly brides..... there are many horrible behaviours from both sexes and it has nothing to do with the name ffs
Thank you for your comment , I’m sick of it too. Why allow people to hide behind someone else’s name?
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The idea of spending 3 months worth of salary for a ring is just ridiculous. For the equivalent of 3 months of my husband's salary, we payed for an engagement ring, wedding rings, my dress, his suit, all our flower decoration, a live band and our honeymoon. If I had a ring that was so expensive, I wouldn't dare to wear it out of fear of it getting lost or stolen.
I hate these types of articles talking negatively using buzzwords like Karen. If you're constantly making fun of and scorning people, you are in fact, a Karen. Let's try being nice instead of making everyone an object of jokes
Wow.... first off f**k her. But for real, don't get me wrong I LOVE white saphires, my promise ring was a white saphire and at first I wanted one as my engagement ring. BUT they do NOT stay clean and get really cloudy really fast. So I chose Moissanite as my engagement ring. He got me a 1.5 carat that with the setting cost about 1300 had he gotten a diamond with the same color, carat and clarity he would've spent well over 5k maybe even closer to double digits. no thank you. I love my moissy. and no one knows the difference not that I give a crap, I tell everyone lol
The latest generation of Moissanite is much whiter than the originals, too. The fire in a Moissanite does look different from that of a diamond. Personally, I like it. I don't think most people who aren't jewelers would notice a difference between a white sapphire, a cubic zirconia, a Moissanite, or a diamond. They're just not staring at your ring that closely. I have no interest in passing it off, either. I suppose people who don't know me may think it's a diamond. People who do know me know it isn't. I specifically did not want a diamond for my ring. I had originally thought a colored stone like a ruby would be great, but after really thinking about wearing it every single day, it seemed a colorless stone would be easiest. It's actually a bit of a downside to me that people can't tell it's not a diamond.
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"who is planning to marry a lady, who is very appropriately named Karen—you know where this is going—" So everyone who is named Karen is a self entitled bitch? I stopped reading after that. Sorry. Might be a nice story but stop this bullying.
This sounds like a toxic, abusive relationship from the beginning. Why is this "news" and posted? Calling the person you're writing about "White trailer trash" is fine? Wondering if BP would reporoduce an "artile" if another race and slur were in it. I didn't read the whole thing, but saying, " she demanded (based on “tradition”) to be given a diamond ring as a sign of marriage" .... don't most guys want to buy their loved one a diamond ring if they're getting engaged? It IS "tradition". Why does this make her a "gold digger"? "Dave wasn’t too rich, but well-off." So what's the problem? So he scams and lies and buys a white sapphire and..the point of this is how clever he was, lying to his fiancee who he had this much animosity to? Sorry...not only is this just dripping with hate from all involved including the original writer, but why is this on BP as something noteworthy? I find it all sad. i
Two self centered people that saved two good people from misery. Too bad they're back in the dating pool.
I’ve never got why people go absolutely crazy for diamonds. They just look like glass. Personally I prefer opals or a sapphire - small ones not the big trashy looking types.
Some of us like jewelry that looks like glass though. Opals and sapphires have colors, which is okay, but can be kind of lame, especially for something you’re supposed to wear and coordinate with every single day.
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this is the kind of woman that makes the rest of us sound so bad. personally, i don't like diamonds. my engagement ring was a blue sapphire center stone with white sapphires on each side. the band was antique w/alternating blue sapphires with diamonds. (my now ex wanted to give me a diamond so this was a compromise as the diamonds were small accents.) both were from antique/p**n shops. so many told me i had a 'used' ring. not to me.
I'm not really a "marriage person" but if I were, I would much prefer a white sapphire or gemstone of some sort. It's pretty and affordable. Why waste money? I'd rather have a cool honeymoon or a down payment on a house. I really hope people figure out how wasteful weddings and jewelry are at some point.
Absolutely there are good reasons for getting a white sapphire instead of a diamond, I'm no fan of diamonds myself. But say you had your heart set on a sapphire, and your intended bought a zircon and said it was a sapphire. Would that be okay with you?
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To the person that said "I hope he gets a girlfriend so good that an onion ring would suffice"I AM THAT PERSON I LOVE ONION RINGS
*GIVES not "gifts," lets try and act like intelligent audiences still exist. besides that, engagement rings are not gifts. it is part of a contract and civil courts deal with this all the time.
I never had an engagement ring. We just got married. Our wedding rings were from Argos and cost £30 for the pair.
Don't fall for this lame"moral fable", ladies. An nice engagement ring is a perfectly acceptable thing to want. If your man tries to shame you for wanting a nice one, then he ain't the one. A ring needs to be high quality, and durable enough to be worn for the rest of your life. A man cheaping out on a nice ring for you is telling you what he thinks about you, and it isn't much. A nice ring also gives you a bit of financial security if the relationship goes tits up and he leaves you with nothing, because you can sell it. It's always the dusties with either no cash, or dusties who have no problem buying themselves all sort of expensive crap, that try to cheap out on a nice ring. An engagement ring is not a "gift"--it's a symbol of his commitment to you. A cheap ring, if that isn't what you want, comes from a man who thinks you're cheap too. He's a bare minimum kind of dude, and it will only get worse after you marry him. If you want that diamond, get a man who will give it.They exist!
Well, I do intend to be financially independent from my partner, so I don't need an expensive ring as a measure of security.... I'd want a ring that I find beautiful and that he chose carefully, but I don't care about the price. Yes, I'd like it to be durable, as I would want to wear it all my life long, but it doesn't need to be a diamond or really expensive for that. And besides... Who knows, maybe I'll be the one who buys the ring and proposes... We'll see.
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1. a lie is a lie so a little bit shame on him. 2. if she was needy before why get engaged at all? 3. if I want a big ring I buy a big ring. an engagement ring is a basically gift and a vow. be grateful for the ring/happy about the engagement, not greedy.
I love white sapphires, but they are a 9 in hardness while diamonds are 10, so they are definitely not "just as hard as diamonds."
Yes, though 9 is plenty durable for daily wear. I have several friends with sapphire engagement rings that have held up perfectly well over the years. Rubies (also a corundum like sapphire) were long a traditional engagement ring choice.
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I needed to search up white sapphires to see how lovely they are and I just fell in love with them, Karen needs to be a bit more grateful and a bit less of a brat
But the guy needed to be honest with her about the kind of ring he bought.
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This whole story is stupid and less of a revenge story. It’s more of a chronicling of two idiots who almost made their idiocy worst by marrying and dodged that bullet only because their sucky behavior collapsed in on everything early. Like Dave is not a good person he was clearly into this entitled person for his own jollies and seems super cruel in a very passive aggressive way. Like the Karen’s badness is obvious but Dave is also the worst sort of man, a person pretends to sleepwalk into bad situations.
Anonymise... that’s a new one on me. If he didn’t like her that much use her real name ? Whole story sounds odd to me . My wedding band cost £30 as we didn’t have any money and it means the world to me.
Wow, they actually sound perfect for each other: two selfish, petty aholes.
Sad truth is that all jewelry is a rip off. Whether it be the best goddamned diamond to ever grace the face of Earth or the finest gold, the price paid at "new" purchase is over inflated relative to what a person can actually sell it for if need be. The simple truth is that only vain people keep the jewelry industry in business. Says quite a lot about global society that the jewelry industry continues to thrive, doesn't it?
I don't understand why people like "Karen" are even proposed to in the first place. I am a single, never-married woman in my 60's, and back in the day, I used to dream of being married to a guy who loved me and I loved back. I used to dream of how sweet it would be to build a life together (kids or no kids, whichever). But for whatever reason, I never met the right guy, and it never happened for me. How could this poor guy have been so fooled by this awful woman? Why wouldn't he notice that she was more interested in material riches than him, as a person? I just don't get it. Yet it happens all the time. . .
My husband bought our wedding bands—-in the style and metal I preferred (wide, but not finger-swallowing, and plain solid gold), with the inside engraving being his choice. No mention of an engagement ring, because we weren’t engaged that long before we got married, so were saving money for the marriage, not the engagement or wedding. We just passed our 20th anniversary, and I still just have the gold band on my finger—-we both do. Don’t care if I never add an engagement ring to it (wouldn’t even want a diamond, as I prefer blue sapphires anyway—-and vintage).
I personally think being asked is more important than the jewelry. That should have the weight of the event. Some people can't wear rings at work or even just don't like jewelry. Maybe once the wedding happens a ring could be the rock to seal the deal. But I'd rather have the memory of being asked. Can't lose that over a ring.
If she was a gold digger, she wasn’t a good one. The guy is almost dirt poor. Pretty unreasonable expectation for someone in literal poverty. She’s supposed to be a gold digger but she’s with a liar living in poverty? Nah. She probably was just a normal person with a stupid attitude and dating someone who won’t be honest with her.
That's what I said that no one commented on. $3000-$6000 for 3 months of work shouldn't be well off anywhere. That's poverty. He is dirt poor like getting food stamps poor. Without overtime, he's making $12,000 a year. They shouldn't be spending their money on anything!
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I'll say it again. If the person I loved proposed to me with a flipping rock, I'd well up with happy tears. It's about the gesture, not the money.
Considering it’s a conditional gift if anyone owes anyone it’s her owing him. What an idiot. Also my husband is from Morocco and there diamonds are not something they obsess over like here so my ring was white sapphires. He still paid a lot because of the gold, but it’s definitely not diamonds. Unfortunately because I live around judgy, catty, gossipy people I’ve never revealed to anyone here that it’s not diamonds to avoid then attempting to shame my now husband. It’s sad we live in that kind of world
Me too, a cubic zirconia of the exact same size that we would have been able to afford in a diamond, if I had wanted to walk around with thousands of pounds hanging off my finger. Just to keep the female relatives quiet.
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These people are both dumpster fires but really I just wanted to tell y'all about Jeulia and Vancaro. Two really cool jewelry sites. Stuff is generally less than 200 bucks and there are some beautiful things. Ive had real diamonds but this stuff is next level unique.
Ok, where is the next article about how deviant and evil women can be while smiling at you and expecting everything? Men are the devil I’ve been told. What about this level of craziness?
Dave, you should thank the good Lord that you got out of that one as light as you did... that woman is a morally & spiritually retarded spoiled brat... can you imagine how awful it would be if this all fell out after marriage 3 years from now with a house and kids involved.... yeek!... you would have to pay for that mistake the rest of your life... jerks like that don't hesitate to turn marriage papers into divorce papers the first time they don't get their way about something.... good for you... now go & find a good-hearted woman for a wife that would be worth investing in a nice diamond to get her...
I don't understand why he'd propose to a woman if he felt it necessary to lie about the ring. He made a conscious (and smart) financial decision to not overextend his finances just to buy an extravagant ring. If they couldn't agree on such a simple household decision, how could they ever be happy together?
Exactly. Why marry someone you don't even seem to like all that much?
Load More Replies... I'm confused as to why this guy still proposed to this woman in the first place, to the point where he decided to be "petty" (words above, not mine) about telling her it was a diamond?
Provably, he planned to take more advantage of her in bed before ditching her.
Load More Replies... Sad. I've had real diamond, which I had to sell. I've re-bought rings in Diamonique from QVC and adore them. I don't worry about losing a stone or having to insure them. If I ever marry again, that's what I want. Why spend $10,000, when you can spend $50???
This is why all of my jewelry is cubic zirconia and silver/stainless steel. As I explained the false value of diamonds, I have had people wave at my multiple earrings and chastise me for wearing large black diamonds and several smaller white diamonds. I always laugh about how the sum total of my earrings is not even $30, and they could not tell the difference. I will take my extra money and buy vacations and food instead.
Load More Replies... It may have worked in his favor, but what he did is still dishonest and absurd. At the time, he was planning on marrying her. He deceived the woman he was going to marry. Also, he has terrible taste in women and was aware of that, wanting "revenge on her for being a Karen" while they were still together, but he still wanted to be with her.
For his benefits. Provably, he planned to take more advantage of her in bed before ditching her.
Load More Replies... I'm sick sick sick and tired with this Karen thing! Enough!!! We always see articles about bad behaving women mostly brides..... there are many horrible behaviours from both sexes and it has nothing to do with the name ffs
Thank you for your comment , I’m sick of it too. Why allow people to hide behind someone else’s name?
Load More Replies... The idea of spending 3 months worth of salary for a ring is just ridiculous. For the equivalent of 3 months of my husband's salary, we payed for an engagement ring, wedding rings, my dress, his suit, all our flower decoration, a live band and our honeymoon. If I had a ring that was so expensive, I wouldn't dare to wear it out of fear of it getting lost or stolen.
I hate these types of articles talking negatively using buzzwords like Karen. If you're constantly making fun of and scorning people, you are in fact, a Karen. Let's try being nice instead of making everyone an object of jokes
Wow.... first off f**k her. But for real, don't get me wrong I LOVE white saphires, my promise ring was a white saphire and at first I wanted one as my engagement ring. BUT they do NOT stay clean and get really cloudy really fast. So I chose Moissanite as my engagement ring. He got me a 1.5 carat that with the setting cost about 1300 had he gotten a diamond with the same color, carat and clarity he would've spent well over 5k maybe even closer to double digits. no thank you. I love my moissy. and no one knows the difference not that I give a crap, I tell everyone lol
The latest generation of Moissanite is much whiter than the originals, too. The fire in a Moissanite does look different from that of a diamond. Personally, I like it. I don't think most people who aren't jewelers would notice a difference between a white sapphire, a cubic zirconia, a Moissanite, or a diamond. They're just not staring at your ring that closely. I have no interest in passing it off, either. I suppose people who don't know me may think it's a diamond. People who do know me know it isn't. I specifically did not want a diamond for my ring. I had originally thought a colored stone like a ruby would be great, but after really thinking about wearing it every single day, it seemed a colorless stone would be easiest. It's actually a bit of a downside to me that people can't tell it's not a diamond.
Load More Replies... "who is planning to marry a lady, who is very appropriately named Karen—you know where this is going—" So everyone who is named Karen is a self entitled bitch? I stopped reading after that. Sorry. Might be a nice story but stop this bullying.
This sounds like a toxic, abusive relationship from the beginning. Why is this "news" and posted? Calling the person you're writing about "White trailer trash" is fine? Wondering if BP would reporoduce an "artile" if another race and slur were in it. I didn't read the whole thing, but saying, " she demanded (based on “tradition”) to be given a diamond ring as a sign of marriage" .... don't most guys want to buy their loved one a diamond ring if they're getting engaged? It IS "tradition". Why does this make her a "gold digger"? "Dave wasn’t too rich, but well-off." So what's the problem? So he scams and lies and buys a white sapphire and..the point of this is how clever he was, lying to his fiancee who he had this much animosity to? Sorry...not only is this just dripping with hate from all involved including the original writer, but why is this on BP as something noteworthy? I find it all sad. i
Two self centered people that saved two good people from misery. Too bad they're back in the dating pool.
I’ve never got why people go absolutely crazy for diamonds. They just look like glass. Personally I prefer opals or a sapphire - small ones not the big trashy looking types.
Some of us like jewelry that looks like glass though. Opals and sapphires have colors, which is okay, but can be kind of lame, especially for something you’re supposed to wear and coordinate with every single day.
Load More Replies... this is the kind of woman that makes the rest of us sound so bad. personally, i don't like diamonds. my engagement ring was a blue sapphire center stone with white sapphires on each side. the band was antique w/alternating blue sapphires with diamonds. (my now ex wanted to give me a diamond so this was a compromise as the diamonds were small accents.) both were from antique/p**n shops. so many told me i had a 'used' ring. not to me.
I'm not really a "marriage person" but if I were, I would much prefer a white sapphire or gemstone of some sort. It's pretty and affordable. Why waste money? I'd rather have a cool honeymoon or a down payment on a house. I really hope people figure out how wasteful weddings and jewelry are at some point.
Absolutely there are good reasons for getting a white sapphire instead of a diamond, I'm no fan of diamonds myself. But say you had your heart set on a sapphire, and your intended bought a zircon and said it was a sapphire. Would that be okay with you?
Load More Replies... To the person that said "I hope he gets a girlfriend so good that an onion ring would suffice"I AM THAT PERSON I LOVE ONION RINGS
*GIVES not "gifts," lets try and act like intelligent audiences still exist. besides that, engagement rings are not gifts. it is part of a contract and civil courts deal with this all the time.
I never had an engagement ring. We just got married. Our wedding rings were from Argos and cost £30 for the pair.
Don't fall for this lame"moral fable", ladies. An nice engagement ring is a perfectly acceptable thing to want. If your man tries to shame you for wanting a nice one, then he ain't the one. A ring needs to be high quality, and durable enough to be worn for the rest of your life. A man cheaping out on a nice ring for you is telling you what he thinks about you, and it isn't much. A nice ring also gives you a bit of financial security if the relationship goes tits up and he leaves you with nothing, because you can sell it. It's always the dusties with either no cash, or dusties who have no problem buying themselves all sort of expensive crap, that try to cheap out on a nice ring. An engagement ring is not a "gift"--it's a symbol of his commitment to you. A cheap ring, if that isn't what you want, comes from a man who thinks you're cheap too. He's a bare minimum kind of dude, and it will only get worse after you marry him. If you want that diamond, get a man who will give it.They exist!
Well, I do intend to be financially independent from my partner, so I don't need an expensive ring as a measure of security.... I'd want a ring that I find beautiful and that he chose carefully, but I don't care about the price. Yes, I'd like it to be durable, as I would want to wear it all my life long, but it doesn't need to be a diamond or really expensive for that. And besides... Who knows, maybe I'll be the one who buys the ring and proposes... We'll see.
Load More Replies... 1. a lie is a lie so a little bit shame on him. 2. if she was needy before why get engaged at all? 3. if I want a big ring I buy a big ring. an engagement ring is a basically gift and a vow. be grateful for the ring/happy about the engagement, not greedy.
I love white sapphires, but they are a 9 in hardness while diamonds are 10, so they are definitely not "just as hard as diamonds."
Yes, though 9 is plenty durable for daily wear. I have several friends with sapphire engagement rings that have held up perfectly well over the years. Rubies (also a corundum like sapphire) were long a traditional engagement ring choice.
Load More Replies... I needed to search up white sapphires to see how lovely they are and I just fell in love with them, Karen needs to be a bit more grateful and a bit less of a brat
But the guy needed to be honest with her about the kind of ring he bought.
Load More Replies... This whole story is stupid and less of a revenge story. It’s more of a chronicling of two idiots who almost made their idiocy worst by marrying and dodged that bullet only because their sucky behavior collapsed in on everything early. Like Dave is not a good person he was clearly into this entitled person for his own jollies and seems super cruel in a very passive aggressive way. Like the Karen’s badness is obvious but Dave is also the worst sort of man, a person pretends to sleepwalk into bad situations.
Anonymise... that’s a new one on me. If he didn’t like her that much use her real name ? Whole story sounds odd to me . My wedding band cost £30 as we didn’t have any money and it means the world to me.
Wow, they actually sound perfect for each other: two selfish, petty aholes.
Sad truth is that all jewelry is a rip off. Whether it be the best goddamned diamond to ever grace the face of Earth or the finest gold, the price paid at "new" purchase is over inflated relative to what a person can actually sell it for if need be. The simple truth is that only vain people keep the jewelry industry in business. Says quite a lot about global society that the jewelry industry continues to thrive, doesn't it?
I don't understand why people like "Karen" are even proposed to in the first place. I am a single, never-married woman in my 60's, and back in the day, I used to dream of being married to a guy who loved me and I loved back. I used to dream of how sweet it would be to build a life together (kids or no kids, whichever). But for whatever reason, I never met the right guy, and it never happened for me. How could this poor guy have been so fooled by this awful woman? Why wouldn't he notice that she was more interested in material riches than him, as a person? I just don't get it. Yet it happens all the time. . .
My husband bought our wedding bands—-in the style and metal I preferred (wide, but not finger-swallowing, and plain solid gold), with the inside engraving being his choice. No mention of an engagement ring, because we weren’t engaged that long before we got married, so were saving money for the marriage, not the engagement or wedding. We just passed our 20th anniversary, and I still just have the gold band on my finger—-we both do. Don’t care if I never add an engagement ring to it (wouldn’t even want a diamond, as I prefer blue sapphires anyway—-and vintage).
I personally think being asked is more important than the jewelry. That should have the weight of the event. Some people can't wear rings at work or even just don't like jewelry. Maybe once the wedding happens a ring could be the rock to seal the deal. But I'd rather have the memory of being asked. Can't lose that over a ring.
If she was a gold digger, she wasn’t a good one. The guy is almost dirt poor. Pretty unreasonable expectation for someone in literal poverty. She’s supposed to be a gold digger but she’s with a liar living in poverty? Nah. She probably was just a normal person with a stupid attitude and dating someone who won’t be honest with her.
That's what I said that no one commented on. $3000-$6000 for 3 months of work shouldn't be well off anywhere. That's poverty. He is dirt poor like getting food stamps poor. Without overtime, he's making $12,000 a year. They shouldn't be spending their money on anything!
Load More Replies... I'll say it again. If the person I loved proposed to me with a flipping rock, I'd well up with happy tears. It's about the gesture, not the money.
Considering it’s a conditional gift if anyone owes anyone it’s her owing him. What an idiot. Also my husband is from Morocco and there diamonds are not something they obsess over like here so my ring was white sapphires. He still paid a lot because of the gold, but it’s definitely not diamonds. Unfortunately because I live around judgy, catty, gossipy people I’ve never revealed to anyone here that it’s not diamonds to avoid then attempting to shame my now husband. It’s sad we live in that kind of world
Me too, a cubic zirconia of the exact same size that we would have been able to afford in a diamond, if I had wanted to walk around with thousands of pounds hanging off my finger. Just to keep the female relatives quiet.
Load More Replies... I started meditation some time ago but reading this evaporates all the progress I have made so far. OMG.
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These people are both dumpster fires but really I just wanted to tell y'all about Jeulia and Vancaro. Two really cool jewelry sites. Stuff is generally less than 200 bucks and there are some beautiful things. Ive had real diamonds but this stuff is next level unique.
Ok, where is the next article about how deviant and evil women can be while smiling at you and expecting everything? Men are the devil I’ve been told. What about this level of craziness?
Dave, you should thank the good Lord that you got out of that one as light as you did... that woman is a morally & spiritually retarded spoiled brat... can you imagine how awful it would be if this all fell out after marriage 3 years from now with a house and kids involved.... yeek!... you would have to pay for that mistake the rest of your life... jerks like that don't hesitate to turn marriage papers into divorce papers the first time they don't get their way about something.... good for you... now go & find a good-hearted woman for a wife that would be worth investing in a nice diamond to get her...
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