Over the Shock and GALing 6

[Thinker]

An "interesting" and a bit uncomfortable situation came up in the past few days.

My W lost her wedding ring...

She was traveling with her family, took it off, and it disappeared. I have no reason to doubt her story, and she is still wearing her engagement ring. Best guess is that the wedding band slipped into some crack in the rental car and (although we jointly tried to take the car apart looking for it) now can't be found. The wedding band is just gone - with all of the irony and bad timing that goes along with it.

The good news is that it was insured, and the insurance company is sending us a check.

But the question now is...

Do we go shopping for a replacement? Not really a comfortable, or even that logical of a thing to do, considering we are still talking about D. Do I just "Act as if" and start shopping for a replacement? If our M were not strained, that is certainly what we would do.

If not, what do we do with the $ from the insurance company? I don't want it to disappear into the general expenses - if that happens then if and when we reconcile, we would have to find the $ for a ring.

So we talked about putting the $ aside for now.

So we open a savings account and put the $ there? In whose name is the account?

All sorts of weird questions that I would really rather not deal with right now...


Question to the group: Would saying to her "We're married and I want you to have the ring. I'd like to go shopping (tonight...) be pursuing?

If I am going to do that, It should be soon - and just make the shopping as a replacement and not as a big deal / decision.

If I wait, then replacing the ring becomes a big decision / sign of reconciliation.