I heard an ad on the radio the other day for diamond wedding rings. The announcer said something like “Every day, when she puts on her wedding ring and sees it sparkle, she’ll be glad you bought a Diamondstoretm ring.”
Hmmm. :dubious: Those pokey-out stones do look like they’d snag on lots of things. I know if I had one of those, it would bug me to have it catching on things, and I’d be taking it off all the time and stashing it in my pocket – or losing it. (This is why I have a plain band!)
Still, taking off and putting on a wedding ring daily (which the ad appears to present as the norm) seems excessive to me. Perhaps the woman in the ad is a stripper whose tips depend on looking single? Or maybe she’s a mechanic? Or a surgeon?
I do take mine off at night. It’s a gorgeous thing with a huge central tanzanite and four rows of tiny diamonds, and my husband got tired of me gouging him in the face when I turned over in my sleep.
I also don’t wear it when I work out, since it slides around uncomfortably when I get sweaty.
I take it off when making meatloaf and such, because of all the nooks & crannies in it.
And finally, when I wash my hands, I take it of momentarily to dry underneath and apply lotion. If I put lotion on over my ring, it ruins the sparkle!
I took it off when I was at work at a catering company–I’d get food under it, and if I did any cleaning, I’d get chemicals underneath, which usually caused skin reactions.
I ended up losing about 50 pounds, and it doesn’t even fit anymore, so I don’t wear a ring any more (it was a very inexpensive silver band–it would cost more to resize it rather than buy a new one). Eventually, we’ll get around to buying me the ring I really wanted, but couldn’t afford at the time we got married, so I’m just waiting until then.
I take mine off all of the time. After two plus years of marriage, it’s the most uncomfortable hunk of metal. . . I don’t know if I’ll ever get used to it.
never had one to start with, had to use a generic ring from a bubblegum machine and swap it between mrAru and I. We both dont wear rings, find them work hazards and very uncomfortable. [he was a navy machinist mate, and i spent too long as a machinist to be comfortable in jewelry.]
Can’t say as I am too taken by the trappings as marriage is in the heart and not on the hand. If someone hits on me I just tell them I am not interested.
Mrs. Cliffy and I take ours off every night. When I sleep with it on the tendons in my hand tend to hurt the next day. It’s also loose enough that I have to take it off when I wash dishes or it could slip off.
Oh, and I also take it off when I cruise chicks, of course.
My band is wide and if I wash my hands a lot, it stays wet underneath, and my skin gets all white and weird. Every once in a while, I’ll take it off and let my finger dry. I’ve forgotten to put it back on at times, but I remember eventually. I am wearing it as I write this.
I only take mine off when I’m bored, and then I just play with it between my fingers. Other than that, it stays put. It feels really weird when it’s not on my finger, and I have never taken it off for an extended period of time. I think the longest it’s been off since she slid it on my finger at the wedding is maybe 10 minutes when I had it polished in October.
When we first got married, it took awhile to get used to having a ring on that finger, so we’d take them off when we came home. I’d put mine on the computer table and put it on again in the morning. Except one day it wasn’t there. I couldn’t find it for a few months. We had almost decided on going to the jewellery store to buy a replacement. Then one day, while walking into the kitchen, I saw something sparkle out of the corner of my eye. I looked down, and there it was, lodged in between the wall and the back of an open bookcase. Our cat had been playing with it, and it got stuck there.
At the same residence, someone broke in one night and stole some things, including my wife’s watch, and on her watch band were her engagement and wedding rings. We had to replace them, and I don’t believe either of us has taken our rings off since that happened, four years ago.
Yep, I take off my watch and ring every night when I get home from work or get ready for bed. I’ve got three rings–my nice gold and tanzanite one (my actual wedding ring) that fits when my fingers aren’t swollen, my mood ring that I wear at work when I don’t want to risk getting blood and dog shit in my nice ring, and a silver one that my mom regifted to me that fits when hands are swollen but looks nicer than the mood ring. My hands swell so much and so unpredictably that I’m afraid if I wear a ring to bed I won’t be able to get the thing off when I get up. I don’t especially fancy the thought of having to have my wedding band cut off my finger and ruined.
Oddly, I find I get flirted with a helluva lot more since I’ve been married than before. So you might want to leave the ring on, as it makes cruising chicks much easier.
I take off all my jewelry at night, and I take my rings off when I’m doing things that get my hands wet or gloppy.
Which is how I lost my first wedding ring, I think–I took it off while I was washing dishes, and instead of putting it on the windowsill as I usually did, I put it in my pocket. Later that day, while I was struggling to get two small children into two car seats, my car keys got caught in that pocket. I think when I pulled the keys out, my ring came out too. I searched the ground all around the car but didn’t see it (it was dark). I never saw my ring again. It was a wide, flat, solid gold band and I wish I still had it.
My husband bought me another gold band, much less expensive, for our 10th anniversary. I still have that, but I don’t wear it. Don’t want to lose another one that I value. I bought myself a ring from a catalog a couple years ago–it looks like solid gold and baguette diamonds, but it’s really vermeil and CZs. Cost me about thirty bucks. I’ve gotten many compliments on how good it looks. I’m happy, and if it should get lost or stolen, it wouldn’t be a major loss.
After 32+ years I don’t need a ring to remind me that I’m married.
I never took my wedding ring off AT ALL for the first 15½ years. Not even once. No tale off marital discord though - instead, I managed to break my finger whilst ‘surfing’ down the stairs (loudly, and with little grace), and had to have it cut off at the hospital. (On preview, felt it best to clarify that the ring was cut off, and not the finger.) We got it mended and, once my finger no longer resembled a little fat pork sausage (took 6 months), back on it went.
It was never a conscious decision to not take it off - it just sort of happened. Once I realised it’d been on there for a few years I couldn’t see any reason not to leave it that way. It’s been back on now for the last 18 months, and I’m hoping that I may never need to take it off again. Never really thought about WHY it should matter so much that it stays put - it doesn’t make us any more married - but it just feels right.
I try really hard not to take offence, that my husband has been known to remove his wedding band in his sleep…he insists there’s nothing Freudian about it - he says his hands itch. I give him the look.
When I lost a ton of weight, it was too big. I wore another ring in front to keep from losing my engagement and wedding rings. Then, I had them sized down, and promptly found out I was pregnant. I had to stop wearing them in August, the baby was born in November, and two weeks later I could wear them again.
Six months after we were married, a prong fell off of the centre stone, and a stupid fucking dickweed of a jeweller screwed up the repair. At that time I was without my ring for five months. I don’t take it off now unless I have to.
I work as an RN, mostly in the postpartum unit of a very busy birthing center and I don’t want to scatch the babies I assess and I hate the way gloves feel on my left hand if I’m wearing my ring. I put it on when we go to dinner or visit our folks, along with other jewlery.
I didn’t take mine off except when handling raw hamburger or anythign else that could get in the ring like that.
Now that I’m pregnant though I have to take it off at night. My fingers tend to swell up when I sleep and it hurts to wear any rings. I also noticed that my finger was getting a slight callous where the ring would lay. After I started keeping it off a bit more it went down.
After I have the baby I’ll go back to only taking it off for hamburger.
