Wearing a ring
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Anonymous
| Do married people (American) always wear a ring? |
Anonymous
| No. |
Anonymous
Can’t speak for all, but I don’t wear a wedding ring. DW doesn’t care if I don’t wear a ring. |
Anonymous
| Neither my DH nor I do. For a long time we worked in research labs and would be changing gloves multiple times a day and decided it was easier to skip wearing them. My coworker actually lost her very expensive engagement ring like this. |
Anonymous
| I only wear mine when I get dressed up and leave the house (I work from home). My husband rarely wears his. |
Anonymous
| No |
Anonymous
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Not all, but many in my experience, including me and my husband.
It’s a symbol and a signal. |
Anonymous
| DH lost his ring years ago after losing some weight and he never replaced it. I wear my rings daily but usually take them off in the evening. |
Anonymous
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I wear my rings outside the house, but often leave them off at home because I am constantly washing my hands and they are a tad big.
All of my marred friends wear them, though those married to Europeans follow that tradition (right hand, I think?). |
Anonymous
| No. |
Anonymous
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No but we have them.
My husband lost his in a field and rented a metal detector and found it again. He had lost weight. We never had it resized. My finger swelled when I had two kids and I stopped wearing it during second pregnancy. The band is beautiful and I'm afraid enlarging will damage it. The men in my family didn't ever have bands because they were lab scientists. My mom lost her original diamond from its setting. And much later the cubic zirconia she replaced it with. My grandpa had a gold high school class ring that has a small black dent in it caused by wearing it during a science experiment. He might have gotten shocked. So we're kind of "do whatever" about wearing them. |
Anonymous
I am multicultural white-Asian, mostly raised in western (US-European) culture, and no. I regret ever falling for the conventions of a diamond engagement ring. First, I prefer sapphires, and second, I don't actually like to wear jewelry on a daily basis 
I have a diamond solitaire and diamond eternity wedding ring, in platinum bands. They're somewhere in my house. |
Anonymous
| No |
Anonymous
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My husband and I always wear our rings. Both American. Neither of us is a big jewelry person but they have meaning to us and we both feel weird without them.
Our rings are simply and not showy, so they are easy to wear everyday. They were selected for that purpose. |
Anonymous
| Not always, but I have noticed a strong correlation between not wearing them and eventual divorce. |