Her Mom Suddenly Wants To Buy The Engagement Ring She Inherited From Her Grandmother, But Her Mom Only Wants To Pay The 1998 Valuation Rate Instead Of Getting The Ring Re-Evaluated
After this 25-year-old woman’s paternal grandmother sadly passed away in 1998, she inherited her grandma’s engagement ring.
At the time, her father also had the ring evaluated, and it was valued at $3,800.
Since then, her parents have gotten divorced. They reportedly went through a lengthy and nasty custody battle that was so bad that they could not even talk or be in the same room as each other anymore.
It’s also important to note that her mom never got along with her dad’s mother. The strain in their relationship was so bad, in fact, that her paternal grandparents didn’t even attend her parents’ wedding.
That’s why, after her mom, who is now 55, recently asked to buy the inherited engagement ring from her, she was really taken aback.
“It seems strange to me that my mom would want the ring,” she said.
Regardless, her mother claimed that she just “always admired” her grandmother’s ring. Her mom also assured her that she would eventually inherit the ring again from her mom’s will.
So, her mom tried to say that she didn’t need to charge the full market value price for the ring.
Instead, her mom actually wants to pay the original $3,800 valuation price from 1998. But, being that the evaluation was completed decades ago, she really wants to get the ring valued again.
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“I even said I would pay for the valuation, and my mom keeps pressuring me, saying it will take time and money and to just let her have it at $3,800 as she probably can’t afford more than that,” she explained.
Since her mom wouldn’t budge, she ultimately said she would just think about it. But, even that caused a huge fight, in which her mom accused her of never wearing or enjoying the ring. Instead, her mom said the family heirloom was just sitting in her safe and collecting dust.
Despite her mom’s perspective, though, she genuinely doesn’t think her grandma would have wanted her mom to have the ring. Not to mention her mom’s sudden interest in the ring has set off alarm bells in her head.
“The whole thing seems super weird and suspicious to me,” she vented.
Her mother even tried to claim that diamonds have gone down in value, which she knows is completely false. And she doesn’t know why her mom attempted to give her bogus information.
Still, even though her gut is telling her not to hand over her grandmother’s engagement ring, she’s been left wondering whether wanting to get an updated valuation for the family heirloom really does make her a jerk.
Why do you think her mom is suddenly so interested in the engagement ring? Would you also be weirded out, given her mom’s bad relationship with her grandmother? Do you think she should trust her gut or sell her mom the ring at the reduced valuation?
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