His Girlfriend Keeps Telling Him That She Expects Her Engagement Ring To Cost At Least $15,000
A 25-year-old guy has spent the last 5 or 6 years dating his girlfriend, though they have been “on and off” during that time.
A year ago, he moved in with his girlfriend, and their relationship is starting to trend in the direction of forever.
He and his girlfriend each agree that they are committed to being together, which has resulted in his girlfriend questioning him about getting married as well as what kind of an engagement ring he’s going to get for her.
Lately, his girlfriend has been bringing up an engagement ring nonstop, and she is so extremely focused on how much he’s willing to spend on it.
“She seems very insistent on getting a $15k+ ring and right now that’s like a year’s worth of savings for me,” he explained.
“I’ve told her this and told her I’d probably need to get a loan or drain a large portion of my savings, but she’s insistent on getting that expensive ring.”
“Honestly, she’s danced around this, but it seems like she would even say no if the ring wasn’t expensive enough.”
When his girlfriend isn’t busy trying to discuss the topic of how much her engagement ring is going to be, she’s trying to figure out the amount he and his family are open to dropping on their future wedding.
His girlfriend has talked about wanting to spend at least $50,000 on their wedding, which he’s not down for as he would prefer something on the smaller side.
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His girlfriend brings this all up on a basically a daily basis, and he’s not sure if this is “normal” or not.
He doesn’t care about possessions at all, so he can’t figure out if he just can’t relate to his girlfriend in this regard or if what she’s asking for is not really realistic.
He makes around $80,000 to $100,000, whereas his girlfriend makes about $250,000 all in, and she does care about the finer things.
“By some standards, it’s a reasonable ask,” he added about what his girlfriend expects him to spend on the ring.
“But it still seems ridiculous to me. Like I might make decent money but I only make like $20k in savings a year, after all expenses and taxes and whatnot.”
“2-3 months of salary for a ring sounds okay until you compare it to how much money you actually keep. Like nowadays expenses are so goddamn high.”
In his area, he has to shell out $6 for gas and $3,5000 in rent that his girlfriend does pay half of. Add that to the rising costs of groceries and he’s not sold on spending $15,000 or more on the ring.
Do you think he should spend what his girlfriend wants him to on the engagement ring?
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