If You Love Her Put A Big Rock On It?

As I've watched many times before, the episode of The Game "Put A Ring On It", I revisited a question in my mind that I asked some friends previously on my Facebook page. On this episode, Derwin asked Melanie to marry him for the second time, after previously buying two rings before. The first proposal happened after a pregnancy scare and Melanie not wanting to start a family before being married. The second proposal didn't happen because Melanie wasn't ready to get back into a relationship with Derwin after he cheated with singer Drew Sidora. On this episode, she was disappointed with the size of the ring and even stated that their relationship was cursed. So my question to both men and women does the size of the ring matter?

We live in a society today where the significance of marriage has been lost, to the point people don't believe in it. The newer generation of couples are content on being in a co-habitating  relationship, what most older people call "shacking up or living in sin". Is the comfortability of co-existence okay for the sake of having a mate? Do these couples feel that something will be lost if they decide to jump the broom? According to divorcerate.org between 40 to 50 percent of marriages end in divorce 36.6% are between the ages of 20-24. Do a local search on Goggle or Yahoo and you see a celebrity trending because of divorce. Celebrities get married and divorced as much as the average person changes their clothes and hair. When did the importance of marriage go down the drain.

So back to my original question, is the size of the ring a deal breaker for marriage? Does the size of the rock determine the man's love for his woman? Does it determine the future of their union together? The size of your ring for most women are used to rub in another woman's face, look at my ring, don't you wish your ring was as big as mines? The conversation I have with most women is the size of the rock does matter and there wasn't room for negoiations. I mentioned hypothetically if the man couldn't afford a big ring at the time but was ready to propose to the woman he loves and will purchase a larger ring later would they still say no. Some replied yes because the proposal should have been done with the right ring and not an alternative ring. Does this make them superficial? Maybe. Is my reasoning practical? Probably. All in all, if you truly want to spend the rest of your life with the man/woman of your dreams, the size of the ring shouldn't be the deal breaker...not wanting to have kids should be the deal breaker. :-)

~L.G.~

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