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Married people, do you have a wedding ring? Do you always wear it?
Mar 8 at 5:17pmWeb
Show threaddandelionMar 8

Yes, and no - I only wear it when I leave my house (but I don’t wear it around the house).

I remember my parents wearing their wedding rings all the time, though 🤔

Show threadChe BananaMar 8

Got it a year after we were married still wear it.

She had a ring I gave her for the holidays until my mother gave her my grandmother’s ring, from her marriage in 1928.

29 years.

Show threadAssassassinMar 8
Yup
Show threadanon947262949Mar 8
Yes I have a cheapie tungsten carbide ring from a well-known online retailer. I’ve had to replace it once after several years of minor nicks and scratches. I get lots of compliments on it! I only take it off when I have to wear gloves for work.
Show threadthreelonmusketeersMar 8

tungsten carbide

nicks and scratches

How confident are you on that first point?

Show threadTrackinDaKrakenMar 8

I hate wearing anything on my hands, gloves, rings, watches, etc. Also, I worked with tools a lot. So, I didn’t wear mine most of the time, only during special occasions. My wife was the same.

Actually, my wife preferred I didn’t wear my ring, because I got hit on more when I had it on. She saw it happen.

Show threadfoodandartMar 8

Married in '91. Wore mine for the first few years, then took it off on a jobsite to wash my hands, left it on the sideboard of the sink and it was taken. No big deal, it was made out of a 10 dollar length of silver. Eh. My husband lost his a few years later, so we decided to not bother to replace them.

The metal isn’t what’s kept us together for 35 years…

Show threaddandelionMar 8

as a woman (and maybe this is more of a thing in the Southern US), I find it’s important to wear a ring to signal to men that I’m not available (not that this is like foolproof, there are men who will still transgress those boundaries, but … it feels like a kind of social shield for sure)

and it is also important to wear both the engagement and the wedding ring together - conservative culture is weirdly catty about that

Show threadsaimenMar 8
The fact that I know you mean the South of the United States of America exactly because you did not say the country annoys me so much. Sorry for the off topic rant.
Show threaddandelionMar 8

ah good point, I edited it to add the country. It’s true there is a US-centrism both in the mindsets of Americans, but also online in general (at least in English speaking spaces), so it does become a kind of “default place” that way

yay imperialism 🫠

Show threadYeller_kingMar 8

Yes. I take it off when exercising or doing yard work. I had a silicone one to swap to, but I lost it.

I’m also on my third ring in six years because I’m a silly goose.

Show threadslothropMar 8
I asked to not have one. As others have said, I was a ‘no jewelry’ kinda guy, plus throughout various jobs in my working life, for safety reasons many wouldn’t allow rings.
About 7 years ago I asked for one (after 35 yrs of marriage) and have worn it pretty much 24/7 since.
Plus, I can open a beer with it!
Show threadBoomer Humor DoomergodMar 8
I don’t like jewelry so my wife and I got matching tattoos on our ring fingers. It’s our first initials in Morse code with a heart between them.
Show threadanswersplease77Mar 8
no it hurts when I jerk off
Show threadLog in | Sign upMar 8
I’m right-handed, so this isn’t a problem for me.
Show threadtigeruppercutMar 9
You don’t make use of “the stranger”?
Show threadaltphotoMar 9
I used to. But it gets in the way. I work on things that can have angry electrons. 12v 50A. 48V 100A and sometimes 500v to 5000v. I like my finger more than any pretentious or misguided thinking about a piece of metal meaning anything. I keep mine somewhere in clean part of a shelve at home I use it for when we go out together. I wouldn’t want someone there think I’m up for grabs or something.