Anonymous wrote:Sold it - didn't want to see it again, didn't want to wear it in another setting, didn't want it in the house and didn't want to pass it down. And I'm really not bitter about the divorce - but it did remind me of the big fat empty promises made by my ex and my bad decision to marry him.

what did you do with the money?

Sold it - didn't want to see it again, didn't want to wear it in another setting, didn't want it in the house and didn't want to pass it down. And I'm really not bitter about the divorce - but it did remind me of the big fat empty promises made by my ex and my bad decision to marry him.

Legally, the rings are gifts and belong to the person to whom they were given, so the owner can do whatever he or she wants with them.
I have a friend who had the diamonds from two different rings from her ex set into a completely different ring, which she wears pretty regularly on her right hand. She is remarried and wears her rings from her husband on the left hand.

Left mine on ex wife's dresser when I moved out.

I gave engagement ring back and threw wedding ring into a river in the city we lived in.

I had mine reset in a necklace. It's a lovely stone, and we had some good years and two kids. H. didn't quibble with me about any property settlement, including the ring. I'm not sure I'll give it to my kids because it makes me feel odd, but if I have grand kids - which will be my ex's grandkids too - I'll give it to one of them.

My mother-in-law had her stone put into a pendant when she divorced in the late 70's (DH was 3 or 4 years old). When he proposed to me over 30 years later, she offered him the diamond, which he accepted and had made into a ring for me. I don't care that his parents ended up divorced. It's still special to me, and I'm so happy to have it in our family.

Anonymous wrote:You give it back. That is the only correct answer.

Yeah, if you break up before the wedding.

I sold my engagement ring. I threw my cheap wedding ring into the potomac river. My daughter will get the anniversary ring.

No idea what my ex did with his ring.

You give it back. That is the only correct answer.

My mother in law took the stones out of hers and made a really pretty pendant that she occasionally wears on a necklace.

I put them away in a jewelry box. Sometimes when I go through things I look at them and reflect on my life. It's been a long time since I divorced.

I gave back the engagement ring because it was Ex's great-grandmothers.

We talked about what to do with the wedding rings, and agreed we're holding on to them until the kids are older and then will have them turned into different jewelry for them.

Anonymous wrote:when you divorce - what do you do with it? pawn it? let it sit in a drawer?

Donated it.....hoped someone would get a "steal" on it.

when you divorce - what do you do with it? pawn it? let it sit in a drawer?