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Cathlete
What do you guys think of married guys who do not wear their wedding bands? I don't mean the ones who would get electrocuted on the job if they had on jewelry, lol. I mean just regular guys.

I have some guy friends who don't wear their wedding bands although they seem happily married. I always ask if they are looking for the wrong kind of attention, or what. I just don't get it!

Curious, curious....

Marie

ETA, this question was inspired by another thread....
 
My husband works at a job where his hands get cut, his ring gets scuffed and dinged, and he gets dirty sometimes dusting out computers, taking them apart and putting them together and he still wears his ring. I only take my rings off when I lift weights so that they don't get bent or leave blisters on my palms. We wear them to let people know that we aren't available. If my husband was going out not wearing his ring, he would be sleeping on the couch. JMHO.

Missy
 
My husband doesn't wear his wedding band. He's not a jewelry person and just isn't comfortable wearing it. He also gets annoyed when his hair gets more than 1/4" long. :)

In all honesty I don't wear mine all the time either...no particular reason...I just don't.
 
LOL I agree with Missy. I am not married yet but I am engaged and I firmly believe that men (and women) who are married should proudly wear their rings. Unelss they would damaged or anything of that sort.
If not, I tend to think they don't wnat anyone to know their married.
and as Missy said, my husband wouldn't even get the cushion of the couch, he'd have to get a sleeping bag out of storage.
:7
 
My SO and I are engaged and have been for a while. He asked me if he could wear his ring because a girl was hitting on him alot. After a couple of weeks, he gave it back to me and said he got a lot more attention with the ring than before without it. Not sure if the girls thought he was "safe" or the girls are just rude. Anyways I think its a personal perference as long as the partner is ok and understands the other ones choice.

~Angel
 
I think if someone doesn't wear their wedding ring for no reason, then the reason is they don't want people to know they're married.
 
I have to respectfully disagree with this

What if they just don't like wearing jewelry? There's a lot more to someone's commitment to marriage than whether or not he/she wears a ring. I certainly wouldn't judge someone or assume that they were or weren't married based on if there was or wasn't a ring on their finger.

Just my .02.
 
My husband use to wear his ring all the time, but he has lost weight and it keeps slipping off. We haven't gotten it resized and just aren't in a hurry or even think about it or anything. There are times when I take off my ring and forget to put it back on for days or weeks. Neither one of us is concerned about it. Our commitment to each other has nothing to do with us wearing our rings.

Besides my husband notices that women pay more attention to him when he is wearing a wedding band.
Namita
 
well Gayle has a point I guess but it really depends upon the couple. Me personally, I would be upset if my hubby did that. However, neither of us take our rings off other than weightlifting or showering - but that's us. I think people naturally assume you are not married if you have no ring b/c that is our culture. My husband's sister never wears her set b/c she doesn't care for the jewelry and it did pose a problem b/w the 2 of them. I think she wears it more now. It's a problem if the couple is in disagreement, more or less.



"you miss 100% of the shots you never take"

Debbie
 
I used to get upset when I first got married if my husband didnt wear his ring.. but it will be 20 years in September and neither of us wear anything anymore ( on our hands of course =)! ) It doesnt bother me anymore, not sure if its maturity on my part realizing that a ring wont stop anything if someone wants to stray... and some people , as some of the earlier posts say, hunt you down even more when you have a ring on...no strings for them...

just my opinion
 
As a matter of fact, my hubby doesn't wear his. He physically cannot anymore as he was really skinny when we married, not that he is fat now, but we were just kids when we got married. I was 19. I am at the point where I should take mine off too as my fingers have gotten bigger as well. We are going to get our rings to fit us just as soon as we get the money to do so.

Charlotte~~
 
Me and hubby been married 24 yrs, he has never worn one, and it doesn't bother me... we didn't have a double ring wedding.... Rhonda
 
My husband went for 4 years without wearing his wedding band, but it was because he lost it. I finally bought him a new one for Christmas last year. I don't think it's cool at all that they don't wear it.
 
My husband doesn't wear his either. It doesn't fit him comfortably and he's really not into jewelry.
Before I cared ( only because people mentioned it), but after 15 years of knowing him and 11 years of marriage I don't even think about it anymore.
He's a great husband and great guy; and I'd rather have that than a guy who is a jerk who wears his ring.:7 And I don't mean that guys who wear their rings are jerks...:p

Michelle
 
We will be married 26 years this year and my husband wore his ring for only a couple of years. At the time he stopped wearing it, he had a job where it was dangerous to have a ring on his hand. When he no longer had that job, he asked me if I'd mind if he didn't wear it. He never was a ring person and only wore it because he thought it would upset me if he didn't. I thought about it only a minute and told him if he didn't want to wear it, it wouldn't bother me. I trust my husband and will always trust him unless I am given hard and fast proof not to and that has never happened. If a man is going to cheat on you, a ring will not prevent him from doing it. It would simply go in his pocket for the time needed and then back on when he was on his way home. A ring does not make a solid marriage. Love and above that, trust, does.
 
I never wear mine at home anymore because I wash my hands so much, it traps moisture and causes...well, something fugly!!! I wouldn't be caught dead outside the home without it though, I am very proud to be the Mrs. of my man!!

DH always wears his...I think guys with rings get hit on more anyway...proves they are willing to go all the way and commit! I know my DH gets hit on and it doesn't bug me. It's one stupid woman who doesn't try to take a shot with that hottie!!:9 :9
 
Just piping in to say that my DH doesn't wear his hardly at all. It gets in his way when he works ~ he has a physical job. I think it's on his keyring. I don't even think he wears it socially when we go out........not that this is often as the parents of little kiddos! LOL
Nevertheless, it doesn't bother me one way or the other. I guess after 10 years of marriage, I know where he stands as far as our relationship goes.

As for me, I rarely wear mine. Between weight workouts, washing kids sippy cups all day long, showering and sleeping at nite ( times when I don't like to wear my rings), it just never crosses my mind to run upstairs and grab my rings just to head out to Chinese!~ LOL
 
My husband doesn't wear his either, and it doesn't bother me at all. I sometimes don't wear mine if I take it off and forget about it. I don't think it matters when it comes to being hit on. I've been hit on plenty of times and the guys know I'm married.
 
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