Promise Ring...

[Eeyore's Tailfinder]

Just a small super-silly question!! What's a promise ring??

 

[mom2of2]

ummm a promise to someday promise to spend forever together??

 

[Eeyore's Tailfinder]

So in a way it's engaged to be engaged???

Thanks for clearing that up!! Where we live, we don't have that...

 

[KT27]

A promise ring or friendship ring is a ring given to a boyfriend or girlfriend, to promise to be committed in a serious relationship. These indicate that serious courting is under-way. It can be given as a symbol that a couple does not feel that it is an appropriate time to consider engagement or marriage but are serious about each other and their relationship.

A promise ring can be worn on any finger on the left or right hand, although ring fingers are far preferred. Most often it is the left ring finger, but due to engagement confusion, the right ring finger is finding acceptance in today's world.

High school class rings (rings purchased to represent one's high school and year of graduation) are coveted by young people of either sex. "Wearing his/her class ring" means that the couple is 'going steady' and that theirs was an exclusive relationship (if the young man wore a 'letter jacket' -- an overt symbol of athletic participation -- his girlfriend may be given that to show that she is 'taken').

Some people judge the seriousness of a promise ring by its value and by the size of its gem.

In some cultures, young adults in partnership wear 'friendship rings' as a sign of their commitment to each other. Generally speaking, however, 'promise rings' are uncommon except for the very young.

Also in some cases, but not all, a promise ring may take the place of an engagement ring in the most serious of relationships among young people. This is often because one or both of the partners are either too young to legally be wed under the law or unwilling/unable to receive legal waivers, required due to status as a minor/dependent, from their respective parents and/or guardians.

In certain religious groups, where the concept of premarital sex is shunned, a promise ring can be worn by a person to indicate that they have made a vow to put off having sex until they are married. These rings are then replaced by a true promise ring (given by the partner in the relationship), engagement ring, or wedding ring.

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~Katie

 

[Ember]

I thought of it as being betrothed. Neither one of us was emotionally or financially ready ready to be married (not to mention we were still young), but it was a promise that when we were ready we would get engaged and then married. It was a little silly, but I loved my tiny diamond.

 

[RumpleMom]

I know a promise ring to mean for a teenage girl to put off having sex until marriage. It is usually silver and does not have a diamond. It can be a ring she buys or her family buys for her.

 

[indigoxtreme]

Promise Rings were really big in the 70's. My hubby of 30 years gave me one while we were seniors in high school. 2 years after high school and some college we were officially engaged with a new ring. I still wore my promise ring on my little finger. It meant to us that in the future, when we were ready to take that final step of marriage, we would and we had a deep committment to each other. The steps back then were dating, going steady, promise ring, engagement and then marriage.

 

[Ember]

I know a promise ring to mean for a teenage girl to put off having sex until marriage. It is usually silver and does not have a diamond. It can be a ring she buys or her family buys for her.

This is not what mine meant...

 

[Just2554]

This is not what mine meant...

Ditto.

 

[heatherlynn444]

I know a promise ring to mean for a teenage girl to put off having sex until marriage. It is usually silver and does not have a diamond. It can be a ring she buys or her family buys for her.

this is what it means to people where I am from, and I have one and thats what it means to me, and it is very special. My dad gave it to me when I turned 16. we went on a date, it was really sweet!

 

[scarlett873]

My DH gave me one when we were in high school too. I got mine right around my 15th birthday! To us, it meant that we were committed to each other, and that one day, when we were ready, he would replace it with an engagement ring. It wasn't very big, but it was a diamond and I loved it! We didn't stay together...teenagers make silly mistakes and we broke up. I had my ring resized so that I could wear it on my pinky instead. I still have that ring to this very day! It really touched him when he saw that, 10 years later, that I still had my promise ring.

 

[Deesknee]

Promise Rings were really big in the 70's. My hubby of 30 years gave me one while we were seniors in high school. 2 years after high school and some college we were officially engaged with a new ring. I still wore my promise ring on my little finger. It meant to us that in the future, when we were ready to take that final step of marriage, we would and we had a deep committment to each other. The steps back then were dating, going steady, promise ring, engagement and then marriage.

DH and I called it a "pre-engagement" ring. I too was young and still in highschool. Almost 24 years now for us.


And BTW, I don't think it is a silly question.

 

[Deesknee]

this is what it means to people where I am from, and I have one and thats what it means to me, and it is very special. My dad gave it to me when I turned 16. we went on a date, it was really sweet!

What a nice thing. Your Dad must be special. Gee DD is turning 16 in a few months...hmmmmm.

 

[heatherlynn444]

What a nice thing. Your Dad must be special. Gee DD is turning 16 in a few months...hmmmmm.

it was very special to me to go on a "date" with him and have that special gift from him. I want my DF to give mine to my daughter one day! I'm sure your DD would love it her her dad did something like that for her!