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"   Your engagement ring is likely the most important piece of jewelry you&amp;#039;ll ever wear (aside from your wedding ring, of course). Not only will you wear it every day, it&amp;#039;s a symbol of your commitment to your relationship and your S.O.  So, I was kinda bummed out by a survey David&amp;#039;s Bridal did recently which found that 57 percent of women aren&amp;#039;t satisfied with the bling their guys gave them.  I got engaged in November and I couldn&amp;#039;t have been happier (or more surprised) when my guy to popped the big question. And, duh, it didn&amp;#039;t hurt that the ring he gave me is freakin&amp;#039; gorgeous. He&amp;#039;d chatted with my BFF and my mom to find out exactly what I&amp;#039;d like, so there was no question that I&amp;#039;d be completely enamored with what he chose.  Still, I totally get having fleeting doubts about your ring, especially if your guy picked it out all by himself and it&amp;#039;s totally hideous. However, the women polled said they were most unsatisfied with the size of the rock\u2014as in, they wish it were bigger. And, honestly, I have thought the same thing. Many of my guy&amp;#039;s&amp;#039; friends are in investment banking and, as you can imagine, they&amp;#039;ve outfitted their fianc\u00E9s and wives with rocks that are pretty darn huge next to mine.  But, each time I&amp;#039;ve heard a nagging, crazy voice in my head say that my ring pales in comparison, another, more powerful voice tells it to shut the eff up. Because I love my ring. Yes, it&amp;#039;s beautiful, but more than that, it symbolizes a super serious commitment my guy and I are making. Each time I look at it (which is kind of a lot, I&amp;#039;ll admit), I get giddy inside thinking about how I get to spend the rest of my life with him.  And really, to loosely quote writer Mara Altman, who talks about the social pressure to have a huge rock in her book, Sparkle, I don&amp;#039;t want my finger to be part of a pissing contest for whose guy spent more on the ring. (Not that I think that&amp;#039;s the case with my guy and his friends, just talking about society in general here.)  The idea that the size of an engagement ring somehow correlates to your actual relationship (i.e. how much your guy loves you) is total BS, yet that&amp;#039;s the message we&amp;#039;re constantly fed by commercials, songs, movies, you name it. (Like, come on, who can realistically devote two months&amp;#039; salary on one piece of jewelry?) We just need to learn not to buy into it.  So, if you, like most women it seems, aren&amp;#039;t so thrilled about the ring he put on it, just remember this: Unlike pensises (yes, I went there) size does not matter when it comes to your engagement bling. Or, at least, that&amp;#039;s what I tell myself when that stupid, spoiled voice starts acting up.  Want more from Natasha? Follow her on Twitter or find her on Facebook. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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