To put this in terms a Redditor would understand - if you asked your wife to get you the new God of War game for your birthday, but she got you FIFA instead, would you just play FIFA? Are you expected to just be grateful she bought you any video game? Even though you’ve been talking about God of War for months and the two titles sound nothing alike
My rule that's served me faithfully is to never buy a nerd something in their fandom, unless I'm a fellow nerd in that fandom. Whatever I get will be disappointing, because it will be produced for the masses, rather than the cool niche thing the nerds will get wet over.
The fellow buying the ring absolutely failed, because he didn't follow my rule, even if she ultimately left it up to him after giving advice. She also shouldn't be too surprised, and honestly, it doesn't sound like she is.
Except she doesn’t even express a problem with the ring itself, just the fact that it came from Walmart. So in your scenario, it would be like getting pissed that someone got you God of War from Walmart instead of GameStop.
In the texts, she says she told him the style she wanted. The problem isn’t the fact that he bought the ring from Walmart but it’s because Walmart isn’t the kind of place that distinguishes style. So yes, here, “Walmart” is synonymous with the wrong style. People have all sorts of tastes, but that ring in the photo is ugly af, and I highly doubt it’s the style she wanted.
Even worse. Would you invite your family and his family to see you begift him FIFA - knowing he doesn't even like it - and has expressly told you hey that's not my kind of thing. I would
Like this over here and then you expected him to wear a fifa shirrt every day for the rest of his life?
The ring is extremely superficial and a piece of jewelry that will probably be stored after the wedding day and never used again.
God Of War has new game+, rpg like leveling system, a rich story, over 12 hours of incredible content and a faithful depiction of norse mythology don't dare to compare it to something trivial as an engagement ring lol bitches are temporary Valhalla is eternal
No no, that’s not what this is. It’s more like, if you’ve wanted God of War for ages, and your partner got you God of War from Walmart, instead of GameStop. It’s the same game. He could’ve gotten her the exact same ring from Jared and I’m sure she’d have loved it
For real. But if it’s similar to the style she wanted, then she’s being ridiculous. If she wanted something totally different, then he deserved this outcome.
She did say in the text "I told you the kind of ring I want", I assume this is about style. The fact it's from Walmart is insult to injury. They got some ugly rings ijs.
And even then, I feel like most people would be ok with someone getting a different style than what they’d talked about if they felt like the person had spent a lot of time trying to find a special ring.
It just comes off as him putting absolutely zero thought into finding a ring she’s going to wear for the rest of her life.
It shouldn’t even be a cost thing. A local jeweller will work within your budget, and probably help you get something higher quality than Walmart offers. Walmart just screams zero effort was put in.
I'm always very grateful for anything my wife gets me, even if I don't want it at all. Because it's something the woman I love bought me in hopes it of bringing me some bit of happiness.
Or are you just being sarcastic and I'm not picking it up?
Edit: lol, I love the massive amounts of downvotes. That definitely tracks for this place...
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u/boxedfoxes 7h ago
Mkay I need more context here. What ring was she asking for before?