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She Needs Help Convincing Her Boyfriend To Let Her Do This...

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🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Within the next year, she and her boyfriend plan on getting married. However, she's noticed that her boyfriend is stressed about buying their engagement rings. Because of this, she wants to step in and help. But her boyfriend is hesitant about letting her help. How can she convince him to allow her to pay for the ring? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

the virtue. Maybe she's wondering if she's taking her feminism too far because her boyfriend

0:08.1

wants to go out and engagement ring for her. And she's like, you don't need to pay for

0:12.8

100% of that. I got you. And now she's all in her head about it. So if you got something

0:17.0

going on in your life and you want to share it with virtue, we turn around share with

0:20.4

virtue, fam, hit us up at the burqshow.com.

0:22.8

Yeah, the subject of her email read, am I overly feminist for wanting to help by my engagement

0:28.3

ring? And she goes, hello, my boyfriend and I are looking at getting engaged and married

0:32.4

within the next year and a half. We've looked at engagement rings and I can tell he's kind

0:37.4

of stressed about buying one. The rings I love are hovering around four to five thousand

0:42.4

dollars, which is pretty modest and right around the average in the US, which is wild.

0:48.1

They're expensive. However, I don't really think it's fair to expect him to buy me a beautiful

0:53.8

ring just because he's a dude. We both make roughly the same amount of money. And I'd

0:59.1

also like to add that I think we're both very good with money. We're not big spenders

1:03.6

and have put in a lot of effort to save for retirement early and build a savings for

1:07.2

a large down payment on a house one day. Considering we're only 25 and 27, I think we're

1:12.8

both on the same page in the money department and are working hard to plan for our futures.

1:17.2

A humble brag, but I'm proud of us. I know he definitely has the money. He's two years

1:22.4

older and does have more saved, but it's more of a question of whether or not that's

1:26.8

the best use of our money. Neither of us are super into material things, but we know

1:31.6

an engagement is a significant life milestone and another large step towards our futures.

1:37.5

So we've decided to stick with the tradition and get rings. However, since we've made

1:42.6

this decision, I've offered to help pay for the engagement ring. It's a significant purchase

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