is christmas time a good time for a promise ring?

Question

For my girlfriend on christmas i want to give aher a promise ring and then valentines propose good or bad idea for a 16 year old couple who are deeply in love

Answer 1

Promise ring yes. Engagement....ehhhhhh

Hold off for awhile. You have a lot of good times ahead of you. College, living single, etc. Become a man before you become a husband.

Answer 2

Go ahead and do the promise ring, but don't propose on valentines day.... why not just be promised until both of you are 18 and of legal age to be married? I was given a promise ring when I was 16....but that REALLY is young and you don't even remotely know who you are yet. Lucky for me, it didn't work out. I look back on that and realize how crazy that was and how stupid. You aren't living in the real world...I would give that a shot until you are mature enough to take the next step. There's about a 90% chance that you two wont end up together...I hope you do...but you know what I mean.

Answer 3

What is the point of a promise ring? No, I mean, really - what is the point? "I promise to get engaged to you --- someday?"

At 16 you are WAY too young to be "serious". Either get married or just date. But this in-between stuff is pointless. You *will* break up with this person, as terrible as that sounds right now, and then you'll feel like an *idiot* for spending $200 on a ring she will feel stupid wearing afterwards.

Just enjoy each others company, get to know each other, spend time with each other, do too much sexually, and THEN break up - all without a "promise ring" which I swear is more contrived than Valentine's Day. It's just Zales trying to pry another few hundred bucks off you, pal.

But seriously, you can know, love, and cherish someone - all without a promise ring. And at 16 the odds are extremely high you will not stay with this person. Just enjoy it and don't complicate a relationship with jewelry. There are very few relationships you'll want to totally commit to with jewelry. Plus at 16 you don't even really know yourself yet or who you are or what you want to do so wait for the serious relationship stuff. It will happen in time. Read Romeo & Juliet together and you'll start to get the idea - young love is too passionate for the young people who feel it.

Answer 4

At 16 you still have the whole world to experience.
One thing is a promise ring another is a engagement ring.
Stick with the promise ring finish high school. Go to college and after you finish college both of you are together then it is meant to be. A lot can happen in college and people that get married before college end up divorcing once there done with college.

Answer 5

At what time you buy a promise ring is completely up to you. Christmas is the season of giving, but you don't have to. You buying her a promise ring might be scary to her parents. If you can discuss this with them, then do so. If you can't, then I would consider waiting.
There are vast types of promise rings. You can make it clear that it's a promise of being with and loving only her. Make it clear it's not an engagement ring.
I hope your relationship works out. Just keep in mind if it doesn't, she can keep the ring.

Answer 6

Your only 16? Wow ~ that is pretty young to be that committed! The promise ring is cool but maybe wait a year or two too be sure this is what you really want! Unless you meant you have been together as a couple for 16 years than go for it.

Answer 7

It is a good idea for a proposal however I was married at 18 and now I am divorced. I had a teached tell me that anyone who got married so young was stupid. Well I tried to prove him wrong. I did not have a bad marriage however the person that you are today is not the person you will be in 10 years. I have seen many people that have grown apart as they got older. Peoples dreams and goals change over time. Being married is only a leagal thing you can be married in your heart and it is so much more simple.

Answer 8

promise rings are for fools. You either marry or not, stop all this a ring before a ring before a ring nonsense.
Chances are pretty good you're not old enough to be married. Do you have a job?
Maybe you should wait until your hormone levels go down a bit and you're able to think logically.
I have known people that were mature enough to be married at your age, but there aren't many around anymore.

Answer 9

Nice thought, but not a good idea for someone who is your age. 16 is really too young to be thinking about marriage. You have so much to experience still. The rest of high school, college. During these years you will change a lot. If you two can make it together through all the times that will come then you can think about marriage.

Answer 10

hey go ahead with the promise ring but i would hold off on the engagment part till your out of high school and/or college remember that your still growing and learning things change... i got engaged when i was 20 and married by 22 and my relationship has changed alot with my husband over the last 7 years we have been together but it has changed on a good part we enjoy everything...but i watch as other marriges fail because they got married to young or wernt really in love just thought they were so be carefull! promise ring promises you will be with them and them only but engagment means for life!