Eternity Ring! Do you wear one!

Sold it six months ago to a jeweller. I’d split from the ex and put on weight (couldn’t resize a full eternity). It was platinum and diamonds and I know I will never own anything like it again.

I used to. It was a Christmas present after we’d been together for about 10 years.
But I felt bad keeping it when I left him as it was a family heirloom so I gave it back.

Oh Helen657 I too had always wanted an emerald ring after falling in love with one that I saw in the Jeweller's when we went to look for an engagement ring. Alas it was also outside of our price range but I do now have a beautiful emerald ring which Mr J bought me for or silver wedding anniversary which I to wear on my right hand.

I will allow your kind comments, @Happysexagenarian and @Ladyleftfieldlover to spur me on to get something done about my rings at last. There is a workshop near me at which you are helped to make your own jewellery and I can only ask, can't I?

They've been in a plastic bag from A&E ever since that fateful day and it would be lovely to wear them again.

I had a broad wedding ring and a diamond eternity ring from my first marriage. I divorced and remarried 15 years later so now have new rings. I gave my daughter my old rings and she's had a lovely eternity ring made from them with the diamonds bought by her father 45 years ago.

Yes....its 18c gold with 5 diamonds ....I still love it after 23 years of wearing it....we've been together 36 years but not married ....no engagement or wedding rings

I had my engagement ring widened 10 years ago, I cannot remember how much it cost but it’s worth you ladies with ‘fat’ fingers enquiring at a local jewellers.

I do not wear a wedding ring and only occasionally my engagement ring. I have an eternity ring, but the cheapest one OH could find when pushed to buy one.

I love my diamond eternity ring (which I chose myself after about 15 years wed & 2 children) and wear it every day. I used to wear my wedding, engagement & eternity rings together, but after a finger infection had to stop wearing them for a month or so, & after that discovered I didn’t like multiple rings on my finger anymore so the eternity ring (being my favourite) was chosen & the others are still in my china ring dish on the bedside table!
I’d always wanted an emerald ring & DH gave me the money to choose my own 3 years ago for our 30th anniversary, I wear it all the time on my right hand, it’s the engagement ring I’d have liked but we couldn’t afford 35 years ago!

Yes I wear an eternity ring often especially if I want to wear gloves as all my other rings are too bulky for leather gloves.

Out of interest, do your husband’s wear a wedding ring? Maybe a new thread.

I’m not sentimental about my rings. Engaged in ‘71 with a sapphire and diamond cluster, then married in ‘72 with a very wide gold band. Fashions changed and I replaced the gold band with a narrow one and I got a trilogy diamond ring to replace the sapphire.
I then decided I preferred white metal, so another wedding ring and a diamond and emerald engagement ring followed.
In 2005 we went on a Nile cruise and I didn’t want to take my emerald, but wanted something a bit sparkly, so bought myself a white gold 5 stone eternity ring, which I’ve worn ever since as a wedding ring.
I’m very fond of jewellery and my DDs will inherit it.

Never worn either an engagement or wedding ring, like sandelf think the marking out as being married in this way antiquated and unnecessary, I know I’ve been married for 42 years as does Mr C .

I always wear my diamond eternity ring that my lovely late husband bought me when we had been married 7 yrs. My engagement ring doesn't get worn so often as it tends to catch on things like gloves. We couldn't have any children but when we adopted I got a diamond necklace followed by a diamond cluster ring a couple of years later (we adopted two children). He was brilliant at choosing jewellery and even designed the setting for some beautiful opals he bought me. Each piece of jewellery he gave me is precious beyond its monetary value. Miss him loads.

Mummer

polly123

I notice quite a few people whose rings no longer fit. I have the same problem and have been wearing the three rings on my middle finger. Does anyone else do this?

Never! Always have rings 'sized' as my fingers chubbed-up!! Dangerous to wear Ill fitting rings , you'll lose them-or your fingers!!

Interesting. But the rings fit perfectly otherwise I wouldn't wear them on a different finger.

I had an engagement ring - wore it 24/7 for 15 years. Lost down a drain while cleaning the car. And a gold band wedding ring - also wore it 24/7 for 31 years - then 'a bit of drama' - could not wear it - it actually felt as if it burnt my finger. Anyway there were some major life changes and I never did go back to wearing a ring. Still married but happier without something that marks me out as 'owned' in some way - reminds me to stand on my own 2 feet. - Literally NOBODY alive today knows this. Isn't it odd the 'meaning of things'.

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I used to wear an eternity ring which was particularly precious as DH bought it for me not long before he died. Sadly, I had to get it cut off in A&E when I suffered a nasty fall along with my wedding ring. Now that the swelling has gone down properly I'd like to get it repaired if it's possible.

I had to have my wedding ring rebuilt! A few years ago I fell and damaged my shoulder. The nurse had to cut the ring off as my hand had become swollen. When everything had settled down I spoke to my local jeweller about rebuilding it. Well, he did. He melted it down, added a bit more gold and made a new ring. It wasn’t cheap and is beautiful.

Never had an engagement ring or an eternity ring. I do have a rather nice 'knuckle duster' of a diamond ring, which belonged to my mil, which comes out on high days and holidays.

I've got one that has the jewels only going halfway round it. Platinum with sapphires and diamonds. My father gave it to my mother for their Silver Wedding. I always wear it with my wedding ring.

No. I only wear my wedding ring. My engagement ring is in a box somewhere or other. I am not one for jewellery of any kind.

Yes I wear my Mum’s

I have a sapphire and diamond eternity ring DH gave me when our son was born & I wear it all the time with my wedding ring and another ring...sadly, its not an engagement ring which I lost 3 years ago. I suddenly realised it was no longer on my finger. I can't believe I didn't notice it disappear & I have absolutely no idea where it came off. I was absolutely heart broken as it had been on my finger for 39 years & was a beautiful sapphire & diamond cluster. I did all I could to find it but eventually gave up and had a new ring made, totally different to the engagement ring. It's very pretty but just a ring, it has no particular meaning. The annoying thing was, I knew my ring was loose & had been intending to get it made smaller at the jeweller's - let that be a warning to anyone who's putting off taking theirs!

I don't wear an Eternity ring. I do still wear a wedding ring although I've been divorced for over 30 years.

Never taken my wedding ring off either. It would have to be cut off now.

I never had either an eternity or engagement ring.
My late husband bought my wedding ring while on active service in Palestine in 1946. Since we married in that year it has never left my finger. All the lovely decoration of roses has long worn off.

Coincidentally I am having to have all the claws on my 3 diamond engagement ring re-pointed with platinum. Caught one on a thread and figured it needed flattened. Bit of a shock when two different assessors told me they should all be done, false economy to have just the one. Even bigger shock when told how much it will cost though after 56 years suppose most things need a bit of attention. No eternity ring, but was given a lovely emerald and diamond ring that I consider to be one and wear it on my right hand.