His Fiancée Bought A New Engagement Ring To Wear Around Her Rich Family So They Wouldn't Berate Him But He Chose To Force Her To Wear The Ring He Bought Her And It Didn't Go Well

A man is currently engaged to his fiancée, and her family is Persian and quite rich. She grew up completely "spoiled" and her dad purchased her a load of very expensive pieces of jewelry over the years.

Her family lives a life of luxury, however, he's not on their financial level at all. He has a job as a developer just starting out in his career, so he isn't making that much money.

"When I proposed to my fiancée, I had to get a ring that wasn’t very lavish," he explained. "Like the rings she got as a 13-year-old girl for her birthday are better looking."

"I thought that shouldn’t matter as much though as the ring is the least important part of the engagement. I’m also planning to get her a much better ring when I can afford it."

"So she accepted, but unbeknownst to me, she hadn’t been wearing it, especially around her family."

His fiancée decided to buy herself a new engagement ring that she only wears around her family. So, she takes off the ring he bought her and puts on the ring she got.

He never knew that she did this until he drove her car somewhere and noticed the ring box where she keeps her second ring in her car.

As soon as he saw this second ring, he asked her about it. His fiancée insisted that she wears this second ring when she spends time with her loved ones so they don't berate him for not being rich.

"...She wanted to protect me from any judgment," he said. "She said that if anyone from her family saw the ring I got, they’d think I wouldn’t be good enough for her. I told her I didn’t care and it made me feel bad that she didn’t wear my ring."

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His fiancée still did not want to relent and wear the engagement ring he purchased for her when she was around her family because she was very worried about them lacing into him.

This caused more arguments between them, and when they recently met up to have dinner with her family, he took matters into his own hands.

While his girlfriend was showering to get ready, he snuck out to her car and took her new engagement ring out of the box, and put the one he bought her inside.

They later got into his girlfriend's car and made their way over to her mom and dad's place. When his girlfriend opened up the ring box to put on the other ring, she couldn't believe he had tricked her.

"The night went kinda bad," he continued. "Her dad grilled us about the new ring, and he said that I should’ve bought her a better one and laid into me about it."

"Her female relatives told her that she might need to reconsider the wedding, since I cannot provide."

So clearly, his fiancée was trying to do the right thing all along and his ego just got in the way.

Later on that evening when he and his fiancée returned to their house, his fiancée revealed to him that he destroyed his own reputation with her family.

Do you think he shouldn't have cared so much about his fiancée wearing that second ring and appreciated her saving his reputation?

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