Poll: Do You Still Wear Jewelry You Got From An Ex?

Coral
wrote on August 1 2009 @ 08:00 am: [report]

Wow, I was just talking to my friend about this the other day and I have some very expensive jewelry from my ex, and I still wear it occasionally, though if anyone asks, especially my current boyfriend, I wouldn’t necessarily say how I got it.

*sam*
wrote on August 1 2009 @ 09:08 am: [report]

I went out w/ my bf and his dad last weekend and I wore a toe-ring from my ex. We’ve been broken up for a few years now, so I didn’t think anything of it, and really only wore it b/c it’s the only one I have and my current bf said he thinks they’re cute. So when he asked me where I got it as he’d never seen it before, I told him the truth.

He wasn’t mad or anything, but I could tell he *DEF.* didn’t think it was cute anymore—he even went so far as to say it was ugly. :(

vaiaster
wrote on August 1 2009 @ 11:22 am: [report]

i once had a ring, though not an engagement one, and when me and the ex broke up, i tried to give it back. he wouldn’t accept it; claimed the famous line of: “it was a gift.”

so i did the next best thing: i gave it back to the mutual friend that hooked us up years ago. god knows what has happened to it now, and i really don’t care! all i know is it’s out of my hands…out of sight, out of mind!

Morwen
wrote on August 2 2009 @ 09:20 am: [report]

I call them “trophies”.

remembercedricdiggory
wrote on September 25 2009 @ 04:50 pm: [report]

Well, I’m not really sure what I think, as the only gifts I’ve gotten from exes while I was dating them, were a cookbook from one and a perfume from another. So it’s different.

amanda lynn
wrote on November 7 2009 @ 02:55 pm: [report]

easy question for me to answer.  never got anything good from an ex. 

majicksand
wrote on November 7 2009 @ 04:20 pm: [report]

I still wear my engagement ring from my first husband on my right hand.  I also still wear the diamond earrings I got on our 10th anniversary.  They are mine regardless of where they came from.  I picked them out, and I still like them.  My current husband said he doesn’t mind, but he reserves the right to replace my emerald ring when he can afford to do so.  That so works for me!

Andi
wrote on November 7 2009 @ 06:46 pm: [report]

No, no, and no. I sold every last piece of jewelry my ex gave me. I didn’t want anything that reminded me of him, and I especially didn’t want to be wearing something from him while dating someone new. In the process, I made a nice little chunk of change and made some other people very happy.

majicksand
wrote on November 9 2009 @ 10:56 am: [report]

I realized over the weekend that my husband wears jewelry from his ex too.  She gave him this cool choker thing that he never takes off.  I haven’t found anything either of us likes better, so I see no reason for him to give it up yet.

spatula
wrote on November 9 2009 @ 11:07 am: [report]

In my long history of relationship disasters, I have not gotten a scrap of jewelry worth wearing.

dizzy
wrote on November 9 2009 @ 11:13 am: [report]

I always told my bfs not to buy me jewelry, because I like real, decent stuff and none of them had good fashion sense.

mercurygirl
wrote on November 11 2009 @ 12:05 pm: [report]

I still wear a pair of diamond stud earrings that I got from an ex. I love earrings, they are my favorite piece of jewelery and I never leave home without earrings on. I feel like a boy if I don’t wear them. At first my boyfriend didn’t like the idea of my still wearing them but he got over it when I explained that they DO NOT remind me of my ex at all! And they ARE diamonds. Maybe if I wasn’t the one who ended the relationship (my ex insisted I keep the earrings)and still had feelings for the guy, it would be different.Although I did throw out all the costume jewelery he gave me. Diamonds are forever, even if the relationship wasn’t.