Today, I fucked up... bought a man made diamond for an engagement ring
Typical disclaimer this happened a few years ago not today.
Some time ago I proposed to my girlfriend of 5 years and was thrilled to hear a yes! As couples go we’ve had our ups and downs but for me everything was AOK with us and that was the feeling I was getting from her as well.
More recently, as a couple we’ve met a few new friends. One of them is a jeweller, who deals a lot with wholesale diamonds. The ring I gave as the engagement ring was a 3ct Princess cut diamond set in a 14k white gold ring. She loved the ring and couldn’t believe I’d get it for her, her friends loved it, and her jeweller friend complimented her about it constantly and kept asking me where I got it. One day we were over the jewellers home and she asked if she could have a look at my fiances ring using her tools.
INSERT DRAMA HERE. The jeweller quietly took my missus aside and told her that it wasn’t a real diamond and that I’ve been lying to her. Suddenly I’m enemy number one in the house and am very quickly asked to leave while my fiance started off screaming at me for deceiving her.
Here’s the rub: it might not be a DeBeer’s diamond, but it’s absolutely a real diamond. Instead of throwing away money towards a corrupt corporation and African suffering, I purchased a man made diamond. What’s the difference between a man made diamond and one taken from the ground? Only that you can get a more perfect diamond man made than anything from the ground. They are physically and chemically identical, man made and taken from the ground, they are literally the same item. So much so that DeBeers has started laser etching every diamond they dig out of the ground and cut as a way of identifying them as mined and not man made. Hello? The company that mines diamonds themselves can’t tell them apart? Yet somehow, I am a monster that doesn’t love her and got her a fake diamond.
Engagement was called off by her a few days after this event and considering how she reacted boy am I glad. I was pretty cut up about it all naturally but I felt like I dodged a bullet. I guess the question that I really had here is should I have specifically made a point of telling her it was a man made diamond? Frankly, to me, if it’s a diamond it’s a diamond and letting her know never even entered my sub conciousness. If she had asked where it came from I would have told her… I guess it’s just something I’m really puzzled about and want to know what I should do next time I intend to propose (if such a day ever comes again).
tl;dr Used man made diamond instead of real diamond, fiance broke off engagement
By: Catholic_Wookie
