What is return policy on engagement ring?
Dear Amy: I am a 25-year-old man. My wife of four years recently had an affair, left me, then divorced me. It broke my heart, and I went into a hospital because of the tremendous toll the breakup took on me emotionally and physically. I’ve been realizing since the divorce that we had an unhealthy relationship, and I think we can both be happier apart. Now I have an etiquette question. I asked my ex-wife to marry me when I was a student. I was working 40 hours a week to pay rent. Somehow, I managed to scrape and save and buy her a very impressive engagement ring. It cost me about $2,300, no small chunk of change, especially for someone of my meager means. Now that she’s left me, and considering the dire state of the economy, I’m wondering whether I should ask for the ring back. I assumed that it was customary to return the ring, considering she was the one who left me. But she hasn’t. I don’t want to nitpick, but I feel that because she cheated and left, the ring is rightfully mine. She
