Does your OH wear a wedding ring

We were married in 1965 and few of our friends - all tough northern rugby players - would have been seen dead wearing a ring. In fact the last straw for my DH, and the reason he gave up playing rugby at 40 was seeing one of the young blokes taking out his earring before playing! Our son does wear a wedding ring though and is just as macho and manly as his Dad so it doesn't really mean a thing does it?

We had matching rings when we got married but my fingers got quite swollen when I went through the menopause so I started to wear my mother in law's, which is of the curtain ring variety. My husband's has, periodically, had to go to the jeweller's to have amalgam polished off! I always wear my engagement ring too though it was the fashio when we got married to save one's engagement ring for 'best'. I don't have an eternity ring but my husband had a solitaire diamond ring designed for me instead, which I always wear on my right hand.

He never wanted one and has never worn one and has never strayed. A ring is an object - what matters is commitment.

Quite right.

We were married in 1970 and, same as Gagagran found, my man (not a rugby player and from the south) and his friends wouldn't be seen dead with a ring. Not sure when the fashion/acceptability changed -perhaps in the 80s with the increased commercialisation of weddings? He did wear a signet ring until an ex-Borstal boy we were helping stole it (I never liked it so thanks Borstal boy!) and he wore his Dad's signet ring for a while until it got lost.

HAPPY 49th ANNIVERSARY NUMBERPLEASE. I hope he's remembered by now. If not I hope you've treated yourself to a celebration - or phoned the lawyer.

We married in 1970, gadabout and all our male friends wore them - we are from the Midlands!!

DH did not want a wedding band, but said he would like a signet ring, which he has always worn. He can't get it off. At least it was put on his finger at the Register Office! Mine was left behind in a kitchen cupboard by the best man (it's a long story) and I had to borrow my mother in law's ring, as it was the only one which would come off! Can't have been too much of an ill omen - we've managed to clock up 46 years!

Just read an article saying that more men started wearing rings in WW2 because of the anxiety that they might not return. The Anglican wedding service only mentions the giving of a ring to the bride too. Also not wearing them was very much an upper class (real men don't wear jewellery), traditionalist thing. We're not the former & hadn't much money for a second ring, but our families were probably on the traditional side. Of course a ring symbolised ownership which is why feminists didn't believe in them but I suppose both having rings goes some way towards equality. I'd be more worried about being owned if he'd put the ring through my nose.

Thank you Learergran and Gadabout. He didn`t forget the day, just made nowt of it. I didn`t mean to take over the thread, sorry.

We exchanged wedding rings in 1975. DH wears his now and then. I hardly wore mine in the begining and don't wear it at all now.

I`ve always worn mine, except for the 2 occasions that it`s been cut off and enlarged! 18ct, cost £4 in 1963, might be just a little bit more nowadays.

Yes, we both have wedding rings, though I'd never ever worn a ring of any kind before. When DH was receiving in hospital receiving chemotherapy last year (and taking the agressive treatment very well) what broke him up was when the ring went missing. It had been taken off because hand had swollen; happy ending however, it was discovered two days later dropped down in his bathroom!

My OH never has, he just doesn't like jewellery. We were married in the sixties and I had a very wide wedding ring that got very uncomfortable. I had it melted down and two rings made; my daughter had the second one for her wedding ring.