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Women going half on a ring is a prickly topic because of what society tells us about what women deserve in love, what men should provide, and the role that money plays in demonstrating said love and worth.

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“My friends and parents all think he took me to the street corner where we met and got down on one knee and begged me to marry him. In reality, I told him that I was pregnant and that the kid would have my last name.”

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“I wanted proof that he cared enough about me to save up for the ring of my dreams.”

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I don’t know when asking someone to marry you became a test of how much they love you based on how much money they forked out.

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The point of the engagement ring in the early twentieth century was that the woman would keep the ring if in fact the couple ever broke up.

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In truth, the history of diamond engagement rings isn’t quite the tale as old as time most people have been led to believe.

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Why not take that money and go on a trip with your partner and actually have an experience together?

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Simply put, I don’t want the ring to scream “me, me, me” I want the ring to scream “us.”

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I figured this ring would be with me forever. A reminder that I wasn’t good enough.

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Before they came up with the genius idea to pound the collective conscience of the American male with the idea that diamonds=romantic devotion, a common engagement gift was a sewing thimble.