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what did u do with your ring?

STBXH has just decided that he needs my E ring back.  I don't agree that I have to give it back.  What did you do?

Re: what did u do with your ring?

  • XH didn't ask for it back and I didn't offer. I sold it!

    Is it a family heirloom?

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  • no not at all... and he even called my attorney yesterday to tell her he wanted it too.  wtf!
  • Its my opinion that if he leaves the marriage its yours to keep, if you left than its his(if he asks).  An engagement ring isnt so much a gift as it has a direct intention attached to it and if one person should fail to withhold that intention I dont believe they should have the ring.  I sold mine, he never even asked about it, but I got everything ;) he just walked out with his clothes. 
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  • What does it say in your divorce agreement about it?
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  • Sold it for the gold

    I don't think you have to give it back. wtf does he want it for

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  • I sold my wedding bands.  My e-ring, I took the diamond out and plan on making a pendant for my niece for her 16th birthday, then I sold the gold setting
  • My rings are included in the PSA as mine.  My attorney stated that I fulfilled the promise of the e-ring to marry him, and sealed that promise of the wedding band so they are mine.  He originally asked if we could pawn them and split the $ because he spent wayyy too much them.

    ETA: I am the one who left, but that wasn't a factor in our case.

  • I was the one who left and I gave both rings back.
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  • Sold them at a pawn shop.
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  • Still have them, unfortunately. Divorce ended 4 years ago.

     

    I tried to sell them, but wasn't offered even a fractions of what we paid for them.  

    I tried to give the rings back, but he wouldn't take them. I think in Texas ( I could be wrong) but if one breaks the engagement off, the e ring should be given back, BUT if the wedding does occur the e ring is the woman's to keep. 

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  • he had a condo he bought in 1999 for about 58K. We refinanced it in 2002 and put my name on the mortgage and took out cash for a down payment on a new house. We also used some of that money for my ering. 

    I kept my ering and put the diamond into a pendant that I will give to DD when she graduates from college.  Providing I don't lose it as I wear it almost everyday.  

     

    I sold the setting and my wedding band. that was just a plain platinum band.

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  • Still have it. I even wear it sometimes. It's pretty. And mine. *shrug*
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  • mine was fake (center stone & two side stones) so I'm having them replaced with real stones (ruby & diamonds) and re-sizing it to fit another finger
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  • imageButternutSquash:
    Still have it. I even wear it sometimes. It's pretty. And mine. *shrug*

    For real?  Not judging, just curious to how it doesn't bother you. 

    My x wears his band on his right hand and it makes me sick when I see it.  Personally, that ring meant our marriage, so I find it a little awkward to see it still worn when we aren't married.  He even admits that he likes to wear it now for the bling, not for what it meant Angry

  • My e-ring/wedding band (they are put together) are sitting in a ring box in with my other rings ... When xh and I first started discussing the divorce he said he wanted my ring back - i said "no, it's mine. you have yours" .. He wanted mine back because of the value of it. (about 8x what his is). After that one discussion he never brought it back up. It is listed in our divorce that I get mine and he gets his. He didn't have my leg to stand on though, we upgraded my ring and I helped pay for my new one. I do, however, still wear the original original e-ring on my right hand sometimes. (It was resized after we were married for my right hand.)
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  • My ex left me and did not even mention the rings -- there's no way he would have even considered bringing it up.  I still have mine, my e-ring was not even a half carat, and my band was this really thin/small pave setting (that was not showy, but gorgeous) wrap around -- when I tried to sell them I was told I might be able to get a couple hundred bucks for them, so it wasn't worth it to me to get rid of them. 
  • i kept mine, going to sell it to put towards the funds for the garage BF is building for me since he's doing that and is going to be buying a ring sometime as well.

    we won't get close to what EXH paid for it, but that's just the bad part about the diamond industry.  It would bother BF if i kept it and had it reset as something else because he sees it as something that was symbolic of my old marriage, i just see it as a pretty diamond.

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    imageButternutSquash:
    Still have it. I even wear it sometimes. It's pretty. And mine. *shrug*

    For real?  Not judging, just curious to how it doesn't bother you. 

    My x wears his band on his right hand and it makes me sick when I see it.  Personally, that ring meant our marriage, so I find it a little awkward to see it still worn when we aren't married.  He even admits that he likes to wear it now for the bling, not for what it meant Angry

    It doesn't bother me cause the marriage is over and the ring is just a pretty expensive bauble. I can't get what it's worth via sale so might as well wear it on my right hand.

    I guess the thing is that I am not bitterly and angrily divorcing so I don't have all these feelings tied up in rings and other shyt. He cheated, we're done, goodbye, pretty ring.

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  • I sold my e-ring, and both bands, to pay for the divorce lawyer. He never wore his ring so it wasnt on his finger when he went to jail... and I never gave it back.
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  • I gave mine back since they were heirlooms. I don't want them with so much negativity attached to them (they were his mother's who is on her 3rd marriage...)
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