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1 posted on 04/04/2012 11:36:48 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: thecodont

Been married 13 years and have worn a ring since day one. I knew she wanted me to going in and was okay with it. I agree with the shrink, the only reason not to wear one is to be able to claim you’re single. The only reason you would want to do that is to cheat on your wife. I’m not going to do that. Part of the reason I was able to marry such a wonderful woman is her first husband cheated on her.


2 posted on 04/04/2012 11:42:26 PM PDT by MtBaldy (If Obama is the answer, it must have been a really stupid question)
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To: thecodont
“I took it off right after the reception and I ain’t seen it since,” said Rhodes.

And YOU are a jerk.

3 posted on 04/04/2012 11:44:06 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (PRAY for this country like your life depends on it......because it DOES!)
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To: thecodont

Hum?
When my husband and I got married, almost 40 years now, people thought it was a really big deal he was wearing a wedding ring, even the newspaper announcement said “double ring ceremony”.
I know people that are machinists that do not wear rings because they say its dangerous.
Not sure its a big deal, except between the married couple.


4 posted on 04/04/2012 11:44:57 PM PDT by svcw (If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
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To: thecodont
Only time I ever took my ring off, back when I was ocassionally married, was when I worked with high voltage. I also wore plastic glasses back then.

If you are married, be married. If you aren't, be careful or celibate.

/johnny

5 posted on 04/04/2012 11:46:05 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: thecodont

The reason why people don’t see the ring as important, like they used to, is because they don’t see the marriage promises as important as they used to.

The only acceptable reason, in my mind, to remove the ring is either job or hobby related where injury could be the result or if you’re doing something like weight-training or martial arts or something similar.

At least in my books.


6 posted on 04/05/2012 12:01:12 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: thecodont
My wife has no problem with me not wearing a ring anymore after one ring having to be cut off because of an industrial accident and another being flattened when a horse bit me. Somehow, women have always seemed to know that I was married...scent marking or some such thing I suspect.
7 posted on 04/05/2012 12:03:57 AM PDT by crazyhorse691 (Obama is just the symptom of what is destroying the U.S.)
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Conductivity and damage.


8 posted on 04/05/2012 12:04:07 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Newt/Sarah 2012)
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To: thecodont

Its harder to get new bootie with a ring for sure and its just useless baggage anyway.


9 posted on 04/05/2012 12:11:26 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: thecodont
Took mine off soon after I was married. Safety. If don't agree you aren't thinking. Take the risks if you choose but.. safety. Plus I lift so the ring would either be worn to nothing or lost. I know where it is now.

As far presenting oneself as single by not wearing the ring.. please quit projecting. I don't cheat but if I did the first thing I'd do is tell the bimbo I was married and that wasn't going to change. Who would want the hassle of not one but two lies? Plus letting the paramour think there might be a future would be stupid.

I wear no jewelry.. safety.


12 posted on 04/05/2012 12:20:26 AM PDT by I see my hands (It's time to.. KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHER FREEPERS!)
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Ditching my wedding band would be the straightest path to the divorce court, in my house.

In my observation, people who don’t care one way or the other about their wedding bands, are also the type where the wife keeps her maiden name, or hyphenates her last name. Maybe she even goes by ‘Ms’ instead of Mrs. In other words, they’ve got a ‘progressive’ marriage.

Phhhhttt....


13 posted on 04/05/2012 12:21:40 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: thecodont; Madame Dufarge
When my wife and I married in 1967 I could only afford one ring and that just barely. It'll be 45 years come October.

Hi Hon!

15 posted on 04/05/2012 12:26:57 AM PDT by metesky (Brethren, leave us go amongst them! - Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond, The Searchers)
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A lot of the guys who work on oil rigs don’t wear rings (mash one and lose a finger while someone is trying to cut the ring off). I’m an exception, but I’m outrageously careful about pinch points and electricity, too.


16 posted on 04/05/2012 12:27:26 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: thecodont

There are some occupations which make it dangerous to wear a ring or any type of jewelery. Electricians, machinist, any kind of manufacturing. They usually ask you to remove jewelery and put it in your pocket. Although when you take your vows you should wear your ring...


18 posted on 04/05/2012 12:30:53 AM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: thecodont

What a load of BS in the article!

I learned early on not to wear rings. At 18, I was in the catapults division on an aircraft carrier. I saw a shipmate fall and slip off of the deck onto the catwalk. His ring finger caught on the deck edge and ripped his finger off.

After my Navy service, I also worked in facilities where I ran lathes and it was definitely not safe to wear any rings.

I’m sure that a certain faction of males AND females stash their rings when out “catting” around, but the majority of males who don’t wear rings do so from lessons learned to avoid injuries.


19 posted on 04/05/2012 12:34:00 AM PDT by octex
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To: thecodont

If I had a wedding ring, I’d lose it. In fact, if I had the money I spent (or that others had spent) on every ring or watch that I have lost over the years, It’d be a pretty big chunk of change.

I just don’t like anything on my hands. I take them off without even thinking about it and walk away from them. I’m just as bad with lighters and combs. Managed to lose a 40,000 yen Dunhill lighter that a gal gave me some time back.

Boy was she upset!


20 posted on 04/05/2012 12:46:07 AM PDT by Ronin (Sarah.... We really need you now!)
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To: thecodont
Never wore my wedding ring, Oilfield electronic technician by trade.
Electrons are real fond of metal.
Also never wore a watch, electrons like them even better.
Do all my own mechanic work, cars, truck, tractor and lawn mowers, not good places for watches or rings.
Have a $10,000 Rolex given to me by my company as a 20 year award, wore it once, stays in gun safe. Carry a $50 pocket watch, plenty good enough.
Some guys are just not into any type of jewelry, period.
Feel the same way about suits and especially ties (most ridiculous piece of clothing I can think of).

Work shirt, blue jeans, cowboy boots and Stetson......Ready to go.

23 posted on 04/05/2012 1:02:05 AM PDT by The Cajun (Palin, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Newt......Nuff said.)
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To: thecodont
I was in the electronics biz 23 years ago when I got married, and figured I would rarely wear a ring, so never got one. Got my wife to be a ring, and we had a 1 ring ceremony. So here I am 23 years later, never messed around on my wife, and still ringless.

I have never had a problem or approached more by women by not having a ring. One guy I worked with before I was married was telling me to get a ring, that I would get more women that way. I would be more "dangerous" and "forbidden fruit" to women. I could see his point. For married women wanting a fling, I could see a married man being more desirable.

So with all that said, I found this whole post interesting, because I just have ordered a ring. My employer offers a whole bunch of different gifts for a 15 year anniversary. I decided to get a wedding band looking ring. I am still in the electronics biz, and I'm guessing I won't wear it much. But I figured I'd give it a whirl. I'll find out now if I get hit on a lot with the ring.

25 posted on 04/05/2012 1:08:13 AM PDT by Pappy Smear (Support the presidency, end the policies.)
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To: thecodont
When I was young, most of the men didn't have rings when they were married. When I was married I had no ring, so therefore I didn't wear one. Most of the men I knew had a ceremony in which the husband didn't receive a ring. I noticed men wearing rings starting around the 1980s.

I do believe if a man receives a ring during the wedding he should keep it on except if he is working construction or in a manufacturing shop. Rings are dangerous things to have on in an industrial setting.

After work, however, he should put it back on.

27 posted on 04/05/2012 1:15:25 AM PDT by calex59
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To: thecodont

Some women concern themselves with the silliest sh**.

I wore my wedding ring for less than a year before I got tired of it and took it off for good. It started choking my finger, cutting off the circulation. That was over 25 years ago. Anyway, look what happened to Neil Armstrong.


28 posted on 04/05/2012 1:16:49 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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I will have been married 20 years this August, and I COMPLETELY disagree with the psychologist.

My husband hasn’t worn his wedding band since the day we got married (although it’s not like he doesn’t know where it is). The reason he NEVER wears his wedding ring has absolutely NOTHING to do with him wanting to “appear single” and EVERYTHING to do with the fact that if he forgot to take it off before work one day he might come home missing a finger or worse... BLUE-COLLAR WORKING men CAN’T be *wearing jewelry* all the time otherwise they wouldn’t be RESPONSIBLE providers - what with risking permanent inability to do their job and winding up on disability and all... IMHO this psychologist is one of those people who sits in their ivory tower proscribing judgement on issues he knows absolutely nothing about...

Doesn’t bother me a bit, and never has that he doesn’t wear his/our ring - maybe I’m just a VERY lucky woman that can actually trust her husband??? [I’m guessing this man thinks there are NO men in the world who AREN’T always thinking with their privates...]


38 posted on 04/05/2012 3:01:48 AM PDT by LibertyRocks
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