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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not getting all these responses. It's entirely possible she has no idea how much he plans on spending and this is just her answer when he asked her what she liked. Why slam her and advise OP to dump her instead of... shocking... talking to her? Clearly she has redeeming qualities or he would not have proposed. [/quote]

Ummm... he makes it pretty clear that she has explicitly stated she wants a *real* diamond of at least X.X carats and she wants it now, not later.

That is more than sufficient evidence to support all of these responses. [/quote]

Actually what he said was that he was planning to propose in January. He could have just asked her for a preference and she said she'd rather have a certain carat size of a ring now and would rather not upgrade. And if you search this board, most women and men in the comments are saying they want or have diamonds only and even say 1.5 carats "isn't big".

Nowhere did he say they discussed budget, or that he told her he was not able/willing to spend over the budget. If he did tell her the budget and she's insisting he spend more and is unwilling to chip in to get the ring she wants, I stand corrected. [/quote]

Okay, but if you read between the lines it's pretty clear...

Unless she's simply not that bright, which is a possibility, she has an idea of what her desired ring will cost and whether or not that is realistic given what she knows about her boyfriend thus far. Even if she were blissfully unaware of how much her preferred ring would cost, it still reeks of entitlement and says something about her.

It's one thing to have to explain to an 8 year old why they can't have something that's beyond the parent's means; you should not have to do that for a full grown woman whom you intend on proposing to.[/quote]

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