Boys are so silly!

[ilovesparkles]

So last night I was going a bit crazy with jewel talk because my mom and I are going to an auction next weekend. So when I got on the phone with K diamonds were the only thing on my mind!

I was telling him some funny (and frustrating) stories from the LIW and he was laughing about us girls. EVen made the comment that we just want the ring and dont care about anything else

He obviously doesn''t get it. He did tell me about one of his buddies who went to pick up the ring with his girl and when they got in the car he just handed her the plastic bag and said ''well here''. Now that is ridiculous!

Anyway, he knows absolutely NOTHING about diamonds nor does he really care to know. Thinks its all a bunch of silliness, so last night I started acting all smart and spouting off things, well you need to know about cut, color, clarity, and carat blablabla. Told him not to worry too

much because I only wanted a 3/4 ct diamond, thats what I thought was just perfect. Really nothing huge. "Yeah right after being on there you probably want one of those boulders that you have to drag your hand on the ground because its too heavy to carry!" Haha. No I informed him a 3/4 carat would be just perfect for me. My mom and I visited a jewelry shop a week or so ago and that is what I liked. "Oh ok, I''ll pick one up at the grocery store and just chop the bottom 1/4 off. I''ll make sure to keep the pretty green part on the top for you."

Ha ha ha. I replied "why the greens so I can tie it on to my finger?" K, "Oh no I''ll get you a rubber band for that." What a dork!

But alas he listened to me change the sibject back to PS and diamonds about a bagillion times and really didn''t care and answered me and didn''t ignore all my jabber so I was really REALLY happy! So now I have planted my diamond seed

and must oh so patiently watch it grow.

How do you not just blather on about it eveyrday??????? Especially when they don''t give a hoot about the whole diamond thing

Amanda

 

[jesterjigger]

I have no idea. My bf was already pretty knowledgeable when it came to diamonds, so I just tested his knowledge a bit by pasting quotes from ps into an email and asking him to explain what they meant and if he agreed with what the person had said. I have no clue as to how I would train a man to know what to look for, I just lucked out with one that knew more than me already.

However, thanks for the wake up call...I guess waiting for whatever bf is planning will be better than him handing me a plastic bag and saying "here" once the ring is finished...hee hee...

Hopefully your diamond seed is fully planted though...maybe he''ll check out ps himself, to get more info.

 

[sumbride]

Date: 4/18/2006 7:57:59 AM
Author:ilovesparkles

How do you not just blather on about it eveyrday??????? Especially when they don''t give a hoot about the whole diamond thing

You know what''s funny? I haven''t even MENTIONED PS to him. Not once. I no longer bother erasing it from my viewing history, but I don''t bring it up. He has no idea where I''m getting my support from.... I don''t even know if he''s noticed I haven''t mentioned diamonds to him in a while. Of course, I do this knowing that he''s agreed to let me pick out my ring AFTER he proposes, so I guess we''ll get into it then, but since he really doesn''t want me to know the timing, wants that part to be a complete surprise, I''m doing my darndest to ignore it and let him bring it up... which he does, about once a week.

Of course, there are wedding magazines by the couch, but he''s ignoring those. It''s funny... this little "power game"... that''s not what it is, but that''s what it would look like. I try to use PS as my venting tool so I don''t explode talking about it to him. I''ve seen the "tell him everything about diamonds and rings" backfire before... to the point where friends have been dumped because they were constantly talking about it without dealing with the relationship and how it was going... so I''m trying to focus on the relationship instead... the diamond talk will come once we''re engaged.

 

[rainbowtrout]

I talk about cute/sad/funny things that happen on PS...I ended up blathering on about Wink''s dog for awhile yesterday. It''s nice now that I don''t feel like sending him PS threads, even if not about rings, is pressure.

 

[InLuvWithMrH]

My FI was sooo not into jewelry, let alone diamonds. I had him look online for what HE would like, both for me and for himself. I would read him PS threads that were funny, or various proposals. I would tell him about the cuts, clarity, etc and when we would go ring shopping, I would take him into higher end stores to compare. He even started to see the difference and it became interesting to him. He even agreed it was worth the little extra to have the ACA diamond from WF!! So, I think I did my job!! Now if I can only get him to understand my obsession with staring at my ring everything would be perfect!!!

 

[ilovesparkles]

Hehe, thanks for the support ladies! I would go insane if it wasn''t for the LIW forum! I''m not so worried about him not being knowledgeable about diamonds, because that just gives me all the more back up in the future when I state my case that I should be able to pick out my diamond

I guess I am more concerned about not ringing it up all the time now that the ice has beewn broken you know. When he learned that I was on PS back in March, I assured him that I was aware there was no ring for me for about another 2 years, give or take. So I think he is pretty comfortable knowing that I don''t talk about it to pressure him but because its something I like. Just like he talks about baseball and I listen with a blank stare. I just don''t want to talk about it too much to the point it starts to annoy him thats all.