A ring is cheaper than vet bills.
❌ proposing by giving the person a ring
❌ proposing by giving the person a pet
✅ proposing to be the person’s pet
:3 (lore accurate :3 users)
Don’t let your dreams be dreams.
i need a suitable person tho
Okay but why would he want to marry her? Maybe she has a trust fund or disability benefits he wants to mooch off.
Normalize not buying useless $2000 USD pieces of junk that starved children in Congo had to dig with bare hands, just to marry your soul mate.
Especially as diamond rings are costly to purchase, but have relatively low resale value.
Buying her a diamond ring only shows you have money to burn.
I bought my wife’s engagement and wedding ring at a pawn shop. Fuck the superstitious bullshit. Probably saved $5k
Buy resold maybe?
If he can’t afford a $200 ring, how can he afford to take care of a cat??
That look on her face is “I thought you were my gay bestie, what?”
Man: Babe, did you know they discovered a new species of toad in the Amazon Forest.
Woman: That is so incredible! We have to do everything in our power to raise awareness about conservation.
Man: Great idea. Let’s use our pet cat " Toby" as the mascot.
Why wouldn’t they use the toad as the mascot? Instead they use a cat, an animal that has caused the extinction of multiple species?
No no none of this adds up at all.
Maybe they are actually against conservation and all for extinction.
That is going to be one very very rough pet passing in 1-2 decades
And likely a treasure trove of memories that both celebrate their cat and symbolize their relationship once they deal with the worst of their grief and can enjoy the positive feelings again.
It’s weird to fixate on the eventual death of an elderly cat when you’ve fully neglected to mourn all the furniture that kitten is going to massacre
At first glance I honestly thought she looked horrified because he was interrupting her on the toilet.
“Nice beaver, here’s a cat.”
A little data point on the whole marriage thing… I and my life partner have been together for 20 y, will be 21 in September. We never got married and we don’t have any rings. I keep hearing that a lot of marriages these days don’t last this long.
We do informally call each other “my wife”, but still, no formal marriage was ever done.
* my partner and I
The only reason marriages lasted longer back in the day was because women were essentially indirectly forced to be with men. The whole bank account thing in the US is a really good example of how screwed women were. There were a lot of very long marriages that were deeply unhappy.
Nowadays, women get at least some amount of freedom to choose their partners and hundreds/thousands of years of men not having to actually be good people has meant that many of us are lonely and blame the women for having some standards. Good communication and mutual respect go a long way and those are the marriages that last these days.
Too bad they have to divorce when the cat dies.
Just put the cat in a box with a radioactive substances. Scroedinger’s marriage.
Schrodingers taxes…
Marital status: both
marital status: yes
That is good news. I’ve lost two cats (ages 16 and 18) to kidney disease, so I’m glad to hear there’s some progress in that area.
Maybe this couple could have a happy marriage for 25 or 30 years if this new treatment can keep their kitten’s kidneys working.
22 years of marriage here. Never bought, given, or worn a diamond in my life.
Marriage rings are a marketing campaign created to sell you a piece of carbon that is so “rare” they put them on $12 drill bit sets.
Yep. Yep. Different quality stones. Gotcha. Interested in buying a bridge by chance?
Carbon is the 4th most abundant element in the galaxy. Silicon is twice as rare, so maybe spend 6 month’s salary on a quartz ring instead? Either that, or save up for a down payment on a house. Nah, who needs a place to live when you can have a hunk of mineral, right?
If I’m spending 6 months salary on silicon, it better at least run Doom.
Silicone band to not interfere in workouts
$3
10 years, 1 child
How much for the bridge? I would need a guarantee though that it’s actually used and not just buolilt on flat land in the middle of nowhere! I am no fool after all.
natural diamonds, are indeed rare, in part because of the marketing campaign driving up demand for an completely useless use of them
They really aren’t, De Beers just had a cartel on the diamond industry and artificially restricted the supply to drive up prices. They have massive deep storage vaults filled with gem quality diamonds just so it can maintain pricing.
Gem quality materials are overall “rare”, but among gems… diamonds are practically common.
Yeah I’m not that far into marriage and I swear someday I’ll get around to getting a nice ring, but I currently wear a silicone one and my wife wears an heirloom ring from her family.
Why would it matter if you can’t afford jewelry to get married? If this were at a time where the husband is expected to be the sole earner, that could be a problem. But this is 2026. He’s working, she’s working, and getting married will not change that.
If anything, his and her individual financial burden will decrease by getting married by combining their finances and sharing bills, if they aren’t spending stupid money on diamond rings, big weddings, exotic honeymoons, etc. They’ll share a home, utilities, online subscriptions, etc. That will save them both money. If they can afford to live individually without luxuries, they can more easily afford to live together, maybe with the occasional luxury.
Stupid take.
My father took my mother with to pick out her ring. She insisted on a smaller diamond. He wanted to buy her a larger rock, could afford it, but my mama was thinking about running a household. As newlyweds, they added a room to the house, bought a brand new washer/dryer set and paid off a car.
Thank you.
Marriage is simultaneously promoted because it saves money due to sharing expenses and often (but not always) tax benefits, but also people don’t have enough money to get married. Wut?
The ring and wedding itself might be expensive, but they are also optional.
Cat is gonna cost more in the long run.
The cat is also going to be worth more and give you more in the long run. 😻
Harder to pawn off in 20 years.
