I always find it interesting to hear about couples who broke up, but eventually got back together and got engaged/married. I guess because that was the situation for me and my FI.
So that being said, did you and your fiancé/husband ever break up (for an extended period of time) or were you together all the way through?
Re: Did you and your FI ever break up?
My parents have been married for 33 years!
Actually a mutual friend set us up and after one month he broke it off (we were not even boyfriend/ girlfriend yet). He didn't really give a reason just said it wasn't going to work out. I was so bummed because I knew I was already falling for him. We didn't talk for about 3 weeks then he called and said I screwed up, can we go on a date? He wouldn't admit it at the time but he later told me that he was also falling for me and was just really scared. He hadn't been in a serious relationship in a few years and didn't know if he wanted to be in one. But he said the fact that I "moved on" and didn't try to call him like a psycho is what made him realize how awesome I was and what he was missing out on. Like I said, that was only a month after we met and I don't know if you can even call it a break up but we've never had a fight since about anything or been anywhere close to ever breaking up.
We have had some real big fights, but not once have we ever considered ending it. Though jokingly he did me tell if I got some question wrong when playing Trivial Pursuit he couldn't marry me. I shockingly got the answer correctly but as I was answering I handed him my ring and he got pissed. There were a few times were I took my ring off, making dinner, potting plants, doing dishes, and handed him the ring to hold onto and he wasn't paying attention to why I was giving him the ring and he would get mad. Now I just place it in the box it came in when I do those things.
The timing was SUPER inconvenient, though. He did it a few days before Thanksgiving, when my entire family was coming to visit. Then, to add insult to injury, my sister had her 2nd miscarriage the same day. Needless to say, it was a terribly emotional Thanksgiving.
Thankfully, my sister's ADORABLE little daughter will be rocking an awesome little dress at my summer wedding and all that is behind us.
I'm with pumpkins. That's so weird to me. I take my rings off to do dishes or bleach things or pot plants or make meatballs or whatever and DR never bats an eye. Either the rings are in my jewellery armoire or they're in a special dish. But he never would think me taking the ring off = ending things. That's just weird.