How much would you drop on your dreamgirl's ring if you were rich?
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lechepicha
Prince of the Rotten Milk
a couple thousands dollars. maximum
let's just say for this discussion that would be net.
Ace Bandage
The one and only.
I'm a traditional guy. I'd spend the standard three month's salary. Here's the good news though: as a teacher, three month's salary really isn't all that much money. High five!
I'd buy her something nice. Nothing ridiculous nor cheap.
GregCentauro
Banned
To make sure that your dreamgirl stays with you (and only you) you better invest your money not in a ring but rather in an iron cast for her foot with ball and chain. If I'm really rich, she can have diamonds on the chain and gold plating on the ball. I'm not bothered.
I'd say you gotta put in the work, i.e., ram her good and hard at least 5 days a week.
Rey C.
Racing is life... anything else is just waiting.
Good answer. Income doesn't indicate whether a person is "rich" or not. But anyway, now I'm worth $20 million. Pretty good. :thumbsup: And being that I've already got a severe case of Gold Digger Phobia, this is just going to make it worse.
I like nice cars but I'm not into bling-bling. So IMO, $10 grand can buy a damn nice ring no matter what the net worth is. But if a girl's happiness or love for me depends on how much I've spent on her wedding or engagement ring, I'd say that she's a whore or a gold digger looking for a pay day... which would mean she ain't my "dreamgirl." Now if we stayed married for at least five or six years, I probably would buy her something especially nice at that point. But I see guys who shower girls with diamonds and gold from Day 1 as pitiful suckers who deserve to get taken to the cleaners.
Ain't love beautiful? :lovecoupl
P.S. My current girl tells me that I have trust issues. I think she's full of shit, don't you?
SpexyAshleigh
Official Checked Star Member
I'm a girl, so I'm biased. But if a guy asked me to marry him with a cheapass ring...I'd say no. lol. I think the ring should be reflective of your income though. If you work at Mcd's, then at least take an extra few months to save up for something semi decent....and if you're a doctor or a lawyer, why WOULDN'T you buy something nice for the woman you want for the rest of your life? You get the woman, she gets the ring. It better be nice!
I think I was of the mind from the OP that my dreamgirl would actually be the antithesis to the gold digger trash tramp and that would be exactly why I would want to get her a birds egg sized rock. yeah, if the girl is a superficial bitch who only wants material things I don't think I'd find myself in that situation. my g/f of the past 4 years loved me no matter what I did - some pretty stupid things at times, but that's love.
I'm a girl, so I'm biased. But if a guy asked me to marry him with a cheapass ring...I'd say no. lol. I think the ring should be reflective of your income though. If you work at Mcd's, then at least take an extra few months to save up for something semi decent....and if you're a doctor or a lawyer, why WOULDN'T you buy something nice for the woman you want for the rest of your life? You get the woman, she gets the ring. It better be nice!
and that last post in no way pertains to you, hun.
I'm pretty well off and I suppose I might fall into some people's definition of "rich". I would say if you really love a woman enough to ask her for her hand in marriage....you only get one chance to see that once in a lifetime look on her face when you take a knee and present her with "the ring". I say you spend what you can to make that moment as special as possible for her.
I would want my future wife to almost pass out from the beauty of her ring when I present her with it and I'd be willing to pay what I could for that.:thumbsup:
I would want my future wife to almost pass out from the beauty of her ring when I present her with it and I'd be willing to pay what I could for that.:thumbsup:
ChefChiTown
The secret ingredient? MY BALLS
I'd be willing to spend no more than $64. What my baby wants, my baby gets...unless it's expensive. Then my baby can go fuck herself.
Rey C.
Racing is life... anything else is just waiting.
Well, I think that is the MOST important distinction: what you want to do (as a pure expression of your love) vs. what she expects (in order to place a monetary value on the relationship).
We're working off the premise that you're worth say, $20 million. If you want to buy a rock out of love, then maybe you'd be OK. But if she expects a ring of a certain value, because she knows you've got some bucks... my guess is, you'll get her what it takes to keep her happy, and in 3 or 4 years, you'll be worth $10 million, she'll (now) be worth $10 million and you'll be left alone and wondering what went wrong.
Whether this is still accurate or not, I don't know. But I've read that roughly 50% of all marriages end in divorce. Roughly 75% of those break up because of financial issues. And women initiate 90%+/- of all divorces. Assuming those figures are accurate, being that I work with probabilities, is it any wonder that I have "trust issues"?
