Zizzy
Shiny_Rock
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- Jun 10, 2014
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Not really a complaint and not asking for advice as I know I'm not going to do anything except wait until the novelty wears off but I'm just sharing the following. Has anyone else experienced this with their OH?
Now I am ridiculously, extravagantly delighted with my new ring. I take endless photos, I gaze at it, I frequent Pricescope, I tell The Bloke multiple times a day. However being an artful and duplicitous woman, I keep my gob shut for the most part outside of this forum and my own four walls.
I am aware that though not Pricescope big, at 2 carats, my ring is bigger than many in the UK which makes me extra careful not to shove it in people's faces. There are no pictures on Facebook and when people congratulate me on our engagement I only show them the ring if they ask to see it, and while I'll then say that I love it, I don't bang on about it. However The Bloke appears to have undergone a personality transplant when it comes to the ring, it is quite sweet and hopefully not as obnoxious as it would be if I did it, but every time we see people, he asks if they have seen the ring and then tells them to look at the ring and will either hold my hand up or tell me to show them. Two days ago it was his work Christmas dinner and he did this down the table in a restaurant to his colleagues at the other end. Luckily our friends are lovely and know him well so there's no bad reaction but I do find it quite disconcerting because it is so unlike him. He isn't the kind of man to wave his watch at people or drop designer names into conversation or go on about his car. I love it that he's so excited that he is oblivious to how it could be perceived but I'll be quite relieved when it stops. He's done it to professional connections at work events who neither of us know well, one of whom had just got engaged herself and managed to tell us without demanding we look at her ring. I can't think of anyone, however brief and tenuous the connection, who has not been required to "look at the ring" if our engagement is mentioned: waiting staff, receptionists - if it's got a pulse it's fair game.
I have no intention of robbing him of any of the pleasure he gets out of a ring that has brought me so much, but it is a bit startling!
Honestly, he's a typical Yorkshireman,: not gushy, not flashy, often taciturn, dry sense of humour, low key. Anyone else experienced this?
Now I am ridiculously, extravagantly delighted with my new ring. I take endless photos, I gaze at it, I frequent Pricescope, I tell The Bloke multiple times a day. However being an artful and duplicitous woman, I keep my gob shut for the most part outside of this forum and my own four walls.
I am aware that though not Pricescope big, at 2 carats, my ring is bigger than many in the UK which makes me extra careful not to shove it in people's faces. There are no pictures on Facebook and when people congratulate me on our engagement I only show them the ring if they ask to see it, and while I'll then say that I love it, I don't bang on about it. However The Bloke appears to have undergone a personality transplant when it comes to the ring, it is quite sweet and hopefully not as obnoxious as it would be if I did it, but every time we see people, he asks if they have seen the ring and then tells them to look at the ring and will either hold my hand up or tell me to show them. Two days ago it was his work Christmas dinner and he did this down the table in a restaurant to his colleagues at the other end. Luckily our friends are lovely and know him well so there's no bad reaction but I do find it quite disconcerting because it is so unlike him. He isn't the kind of man to wave his watch at people or drop designer names into conversation or go on about his car. I love it that he's so excited that he is oblivious to how it could be perceived but I'll be quite relieved when it stops. He's done it to professional connections at work events who neither of us know well, one of whom had just got engaged herself and managed to tell us without demanding we look at her ring. I can't think of anyone, however brief and tenuous the connection, who has not been required to "look at the ring" if our engagement is mentioned: waiting staff, receptionists - if it's got a pulse it's fair game.
I have no intention of robbing him of any of the pleasure he gets out of a ring that has brought me so much, but it is a bit startling!
Honestly, he's a typical Yorkshireman,: not gushy, not flashy, often taciturn, dry sense of humour, low key. Anyone else experienced this?