What do you think about about engagement rings?

i agree to what you are saying and there are women out ther that feel that way too. there are women who do not care about a ring at all and are concerned with creating a future and having amazing lasting memories and making each other happy a bigger priority than a stupid ring. yes men do especially kind and gentle men do not get the appreciation that they deserve and both people in the relationship should gift each other the same.

I am hoping that with your attitude toward women in general you are not thinking about getting any woman an engagement ring. Because, sugar you need to learn the facts of life and find out that a womans work is never done, from sun up to sun down, we never stop. And as far as rings, my first marriage I did not want one, I wanted a plain gold band, which I got, My second marriage, I had purchased a ring from the pawn shop years earlier to ward off a**holes in bars, so we decided why spend the money and my hubby purchased a wrap for my diamond and it looks beautiful. So if money is the thing, go to a pawn shop, get a ring for 1/3 of cost. And there are stay at home dads everywhere, but in todays society, men usually make more money than a women in the same job, so grow up darling, get a job, a real job and learn that life aint no bed of roses, just a bush full of thorns.

Hope you find a woman that can teach you the proper way to treat a lady :)

The woman's family pays for most of the wedding, so maybe that's why. I don't really know how that tradition got started. But about the expensive gifts, my husband and I spend about the same on each other for gifts and items that we don't necessarily need. When you get married, you share money, so you don't really think of it that way anymore. You just have to communicate, especially about money. Traditionally women have been the one's to stay at home and take care of the kids, but I think society has become much more accepting of a stay at home Dad. I think it's a great idea, if you can afford for one parent to stay at home.

Well - my love's wedding ring was more expensive than my engagement ring. I give my love everything that I can and I work my *** off to do it.

If anyone were to be the stay at home person, it would be my lover... I'm just more of the successful, determined one and he's more into cooking and cleaning and whatnot. But we're going to both work even after we have children.

If you don't like the way most things are then don't conform. If you want to be a stay at home dad then more power to you. Not everyone fits the standard that you've seen.

Women typically stay home with the kids cause typically they handle it better. My husband thought the same as you so I let him be the stay at home dad for awhile!! It was the funniest thing in the world, and if you asked him if he wants to stay home with the kids now, he'd tell you there is no way he would! Some dads do it though, and are great at it and love it! As far as the ring, men dont normally want stuff like that. If they do, I dont see why thier wifes wouldnt get it for them.

Inexpensive rings for both the man & the woman, both work part time and spend the other half watching the kids (and cleaning the house).

Sounds good to me! I don't want to sit in the house all day with small children, anyway.

However, the fact remains that men get paid more than women do for the same work. If you want us to buy you gifts equally, I hope you support equal rights for us!

Oh cry me a river!! Nobody makes a man buy a ring...a couple together can decide on how much to spend on rings and if they want to share the cost..... I am not materialistic at all....and having a bling bling ring on my finger doesn't impress me..I would have been just as happy with a ring out of the gumball machine....I married my husband because I loved him and not for the "gifts" that he can provide me....

As far as being a stay at home dad....nothing wrong with that...As long as you marry someone who agrees with that arrangement... ...I know it would take only one day for my hubby to be home with our baby daughter....and he would be ready to go back to work so damn fast.....

I am guessing you are single. There are more and more working mothers now days. I suppose that you also plan to breast feed when you become a stay at home dad?? When you carry a child for 9 months and find a way to give birth to it then I am sure you can be a stay at home dad!

maybe its just who it is. my engagement ring was equal to 2 months of hubby's salary so the wedding ring i bought him was equal to 2 months of my salary. and i get him expensive stuff all the time. i'd assume that because some men dont want to be a stay at home dad. my hubby is going to be a stay at home dad if by them im set in my career just because i would be making a little bit more a year than he would so we'd be more stable

I am a man and lots of men buy engagement rings with enough stars in their eyes to blinding them. A little shopping for salvage gold and some more shopping for a diamond will pay big dividends when a jeweler cast the ring and mounts the stone for you. I Got a one half carat stone by trading cars and had my wife's ring cast from jewelry that had ben is the family for generations for very little cost when compared to Jewelry store prices.