I know proposal is eminent, like by the end of April at the latest. BUT that's not really what I've been holding back. Warning: Long story ahead (but I will try my best to compact it).
Let's start where it starts, last January boyfriend and I started talking about rings and diamonds and marriage, all things awesome. He let me pick my setting a Tacori that I LOOOOOOVED. He bought an EGL diamond which I didn't love but it was fine, I love bf after all. Anywhoo, in February his mother (who he was very close with) died suddenly. It was (and still is) a trial by fire, everything sucked for a while. I planned an entire Spanish funeral mass and funeral without being able to say more than "Hola : ) ." Things really sucked. His family fell apart; his father is still just so lost. BF and I almost didn't make it, it was hard on him but worse, I think, on me. I felt like I was losing my boyfriend to a bland blankness that was overtaking him.
Okay, so fast-foreword about 8 months later things are still crazy but starting to get back to "normal". We start talking about the diamond and setting and realize we need to send it to Tacori to be set. Then comes the start of the drama. BF's family (read his sisters and brothers) have always tried to take advantage of him, he's the youngest and has a sweet disposition. BF showed his oldest brother and his wife my stone and setting because he was excited. Worst. Choice. Ever.
BF's SIL is the biggest witch with a B I have ever met. I mean that. She thinks she is a princess, refuses to work to make ends meet, demands boyfriend's brother put in overtime to pay for her Ford Expedition (they have two kids not 9, btw). She didn't do a damn thing with BF's mom died and then had the audacity to complain that I picked the wrong flowers, the wrong rosary (she's not Catholic, btw), etc etc. Ever I do is wrong. The fact that I'm in school is wrong, blah blah. She also wants better things that everyone else. Champagne taste on a PBR budget. She saw my setting and lost her crap. She screamed, begged, cried, DEMANDED, etc etc that she get that same setting. Okay well (I"ll call her C) C doesn't wear her plain wedding band, nothing at all actually, but she HAD TO HAVE at this point MY setting. She didn't want her own, she wanted mine and she wanted to buy a 3ct CZ and popped that "sucker in there".
This went on for three months. It got to the point where I was so disgusted with the drama from her crying and begging her husband ( I'll call him E) so get the setting from my boyfriend. I lost my crap. I cried for two days. I don't cry but those two days I did. Then I ate a pan of brownies and asked boyfriend what we were going to do. His father offered some advice. He knew how upset I was and suggested we sell the setting and diamond and start all over.
To save everyone's time and sum up: that's what we did. I picked out a new diamond this time from James Allen (it's a K and I'm in looooove. I'll explain the joke behind it at the end) and BF's dad did something I never expected. He gave bf some of his mom's old jewelry (gold necklaces that were broken) to sell and put towards my new setting (and make up what boyfriend lost from buying and selling the Tacori and Diamond) I cried again, it meant sooo sooo much that he did that. BF's dad is just the most in-love man I have ever seen, even though it's been over a year since his mom died.
So we have a new stone, a K princess, my first name is Kerry (K) and BF calls me his princess.
I found out on accident that I loooooooved warmer stones. The setting is a suprise I have no idea what it looks like but I'm reallllllly excited.
Sorry this is soooo long, also sorry for holding back. I didn't want to lose it so admitting it was getting to me, even here, would have been the straw that broke the camel's back. I also realize the "mature" thing to do would have been ignore C and just live my life but this woman... is just indescribable. I'm ignoring it and moving on now.
Let's start where it starts, last January boyfriend and I started talking about rings and diamonds and marriage, all things awesome. He let me pick my setting a Tacori that I LOOOOOOVED. He bought an EGL diamond which I didn't love but it was fine, I love bf after all. Anywhoo, in February his mother (who he was very close with) died suddenly. It was (and still is) a trial by fire, everything sucked for a while. I planned an entire Spanish funeral mass and funeral without being able to say more than "Hola : ) ." Things really sucked. His family fell apart; his father is still just so lost. BF and I almost didn't make it, it was hard on him but worse, I think, on me. I felt like I was losing my boyfriend to a bland blankness that was overtaking him.
Okay, so fast-foreword about 8 months later things are still crazy but starting to get back to "normal". We start talking about the diamond and setting and realize we need to send it to Tacori to be set. Then comes the start of the drama. BF's family (read his sisters and brothers) have always tried to take advantage of him, he's the youngest and has a sweet disposition. BF showed his oldest brother and his wife my stone and setting because he was excited. Worst. Choice. Ever.
BF's SIL is the biggest witch with a B I have ever met. I mean that. She thinks she is a princess, refuses to work to make ends meet, demands boyfriend's brother put in overtime to pay for her Ford Expedition (they have two kids not 9, btw). She didn't do a damn thing with BF's mom died and then had the audacity to complain that I picked the wrong flowers, the wrong rosary (she's not Catholic, btw), etc etc. Ever I do is wrong. The fact that I'm in school is wrong, blah blah. She also wants better things that everyone else. Champagne taste on a PBR budget. She saw my setting and lost her crap. She screamed, begged, cried, DEMANDED, etc etc that she get that same setting. Okay well (I"ll call her C) C doesn't wear her plain wedding band, nothing at all actually, but she HAD TO HAVE at this point MY setting. She didn't want her own, she wanted mine and she wanted to buy a 3ct CZ and popped that "sucker in there".
This went on for three months. It got to the point where I was so disgusted with the drama from her crying and begging her husband ( I'll call him E) so get the setting from my boyfriend. I lost my crap. I cried for two days. I don't cry but those two days I did. Then I ate a pan of brownies and asked boyfriend what we were going to do. His father offered some advice. He knew how upset I was and suggested we sell the setting and diamond and start all over.
To save everyone's time and sum up: that's what we did. I picked out a new diamond this time from James Allen (it's a K and I'm in looooove. I'll explain the joke behind it at the end) and BF's dad did something I never expected. He gave bf some of his mom's old jewelry (gold necklaces that were broken) to sell and put towards my new setting (and make up what boyfriend lost from buying and selling the Tacori and Diamond) I cried again, it meant sooo sooo much that he did that. BF's dad is just the most in-love man I have ever seen, even though it's been over a year since his mom died.
So we have a new stone, a K princess, my first name is Kerry (K) and BF calls me his princess.
I found out on accident that I loooooooved warmer stones. The setting is a suprise I have no idea what it looks like but I'm reallllllly excited. Sorry this is soooo long, also sorry for holding back. I didn't want to lose it so admitting it was getting to me, even here, would have been the straw that broke the camel's back. I also realize the "mature" thing to do would have been ignore C and just live my life but this woman... is just indescribable. I'm ignoring it and moving on now.
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