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Can anyone give me advice on how to convince my girlfriend of this though without her thinking I love her any less :)?
If my girlfriend thought that I loved her less because I didn't give her a diamond ring, I'd reconsider my relationship.
Similar arguments can be made about almost any fashion item. People don't buy fashion due to it's great quality, and most of the time not even due to good design, but mostly just to show off.
I'm the OP - surprised to see this at the top of HN today, but happy to post a quick update: My wife and I have been happily married for ten years now. She loves her ring, and it has held up extremely well. (She just had the band resized, absolutely no issues with the stones.) No one has ever thought it was anything other than a diamond ring, which includes several years of daily scrutiny from crazy New York City bri…
Thanks for writing this. My problem is only that you consider mosanite inexpensive, which is relative to Diamonds true, but from a ring search i could only find nice looking ones for >1000€ which is still expensive/hardly affordable to me.
I spent a total of $500 to have a .75ct diamond set in a ring this way.
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Nobody has ever been the least bit bothered by my non-diamond choice of an engagement ring for my wife.
For every such anecdote, there is seventeen opposing anecdotes where the wife insisted on a diamond ring and/or her friends/family thought the husband was "cheap" for not buying her one. edit: Looks like I said something unpopular. Whoops!
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If my girlfriend thought that I loved her less because I didn't give her a diamond ring, I'd reconsider my relationship.
Sounds like a good pickup line: "What do you think about diamond ring?" Better discover the answer after 3 minutes rather than 3 years.
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> It's a bit of a stretch to say that only diamond rings are acceptable "only" is a pretty exclusive word, but I don't think it's a stretch saying that only diamond rings are acceptable in the general case. Especially amongst the reasonably affluent class that you'll find a lot of on HN, not getting a diamond for a spouse would be unusual enough that friends would whisper behind your backs about it. (And to be clear,…
So it's kindda like cows in Nigeria?
We were engaged in 2006 and I forwarded that article to my soon to be wife. Her answer was: I don't think this is funny. I ended up buying a 10k diamond ring. We're still happily married with 1 beautiful 8 y.o. daughter. Ask any married guy and they'll all say the same: pick your battles!
Another alternative is synthetic, lab grown diamonds. They are superior to naturally occuring diamonds, cheaper, aren't tainted by human misery and suffering like conflic/blood diamondst, and arent extracted from ecologically damaging mining techniques like open pit mining.
Can anyone give me advice on how to convince my girlfriend of this though without her thinking I love her any less :)?