Sunday, 14 June 2009
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What Does A "Promise Ring" Promise?
Can someone please explain to me the new craze that seems to be sweeping tween, teen, and young couples? A friend of mine recently told me his girlfriend wanted him to buy her a "promise ring," and apparently the fact that I'm female means I should know what and where to find this ring of hers.Honestly, I have no idea.
I mean, I've heard the term before but I never pondered what a "promise ring" means. According to Google, promise rings are pre-engagement rings or rings signifying that a couple is now steady...
Okay, how does that work? Is it like a "I-promise-to-one-day-propose-to-you" ring? And if the ring is to signify that a couple has become steady, then should there be a "happy-first-date-I-promise-to-take-you-on-a-second-date" ring as well?
Personally, I think the meaning behind the ring rather vague and I wouldn't expect one from my guy, but a lot of couples I know are eating it up so good job for whoever came up with this marketing scheme.
What do you think of this idea? Would you expect it from your guy/girl?
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It's like, "I promise to not have sex with you unless you marry me because then I know you're commited to me and I don't want to waste my first time with someone who doesn't want to commite to me." type of thing.
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@pinkkiex53@xanga - isn't that a purity ring?
I knew a couple of guys that had promise rings they received from their parents. this ring was a reminder to them in staying without sexual intimacy until they met the girl they would marry. By wearing the ring it would remind them whenever they saw it on their finger.
I have also heard of a promise ring being what you said in you blog. A promise of freindship or dating with a desire to let it grow into an engagement of marriage
@SeeBeeWrite@xanga - oh yeah
oops
i always thought they were the same thing.
To me, you might as well just get engaged, since you're promising SOMETHING by giving that ring. It's like getting engaged except you know the wedding won't be soon, and you won't start planning yet, and you don't really announce it to people like you would an engagement ring.
I think the whole principle is silly.
a promise ring izza promise offa gud tyme
promise ring = stupid
I have a promise ring that my parents got for me... It symbolizes my covenant with God, my parents, and my future husband, that I'll wait for him. It's more of a reminder to me... it says "True Love Waits" on it.
a promise ring is something you give or recieve from your SO as a symbol saying "someday soon i'm going to propose to you. but not for a while because ----- but eventually i'll marry you."
@SeeBeeWrite@xanga - Yes it is.
I don't know either. A lot of my friends want them or have them. I don't really understand the concept. Maybe it's like a: I can't afford an engagement ring so have this instead?
I don't really care for it, nor do I expect. The concept is... silly, but cute.
It's a great way to get someone to "put out" :P
*expect it :x
Oopise.
@LampShade7@xanga - Lol. xD
It's just something extra to show that they are willing to be together. eh.
I don't see the point in them. If a guy buys me a ring, I'm not expecting anything from them, I just assume it's a cute little present. Otherwise, they seem pretty useless.
@LampShade7@xanga - that means its gonna be a cheap ass ring and in my opinion he shouldnt be wasting his money on that when he should be saving to buy me a really good engagement ring
a promise ring to me would be to symbolize how the guy feels for me, to promise that he'd be there for me etc. then its virtually the same as a wedding ring.
i did have a guy buy me a little diamond pendant to show me how much he cared, but he wasn't going to "promise some day i'll marry you"
and for that matter why would you want a ring that isn't an engagement ring from someone promising that eventually you'll get married because if your not at that point right then then who's to say you'll ever be even down the road? i wouldn't want that promise
now if a guy wants to give me a ring just to say he loves me and he promises to be true to me and not be a lying dirty cheating scumbag then i wouldn't mind!
@Passion_Star@xanga - I'm pretty sure that's the idea, actually.
At least that's what I would expect it to mean.
my boyfriend got me a promise ring for our anniversary. to him it means that he'll always love me no matter what happens. i thought it was sweet :] and it's a pretty ring so that's a plus lmao. :D<3
its stupid :)
I like the idea of having a pre-engagement ring. It kind of says "it's too early for me to propose, but I want to eventually" in my opinion. I think it would make a nice anniversary gift for a couple that will likely end up getting married.
hahaha, i did always call it an engagement-for-engagement ring [x
@MessyRockstar@xanga - yeah, my boyfriend got me one too, and that's basically what he said. hahaha
I always thought they were supposed to promise you would both abstain from sex until marriage, and that you were "promising" each other to be together forever?
I dunno. I was with a guy once that got me one. It easily fit two of my fingers (...yes, at once) and it had Jesus on it.
And no, I am not religious. At all.
He got his moody, on/off atheist girlfriend a Jesus ring to promise him my forever.
So, I lost it. I think I might have thrown it away. I don't know.
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Don't the Jo'Bros have promise rings?
:P
I have no idea, honestly!
And I wouldn't expect one either...
A promise ring sounds almost like a arranged marriage type of thing. Like I'm promised to him so I must marry him. IDK. LOL.