Am I being greedy?!?!

Hey everyone

So I've been with my boyfriend a year and a half and we've talked about getting married and have even gone and looked at some engagement rings together.

My boyfriend has 3 kids from a previous relationship and is very much involved in their lives. His kids live with their mom, because he works a lot during the week and he does pay child support and he gets them every other weekend (Friday to Sunday night). He isn't one of those guys who does not care for his kids.

Well his mom was talking to me the other day while she was over and we were talking about engagements and engagement rings. She asked if I'd seen any nice ones I said yes there was one that really caught my eye. She asked how much and I told her it was $250

She then proceeded to bitch at me and called me a selfish bitch to my face because that's way too expensive for an engagement ring in her opinion. She was like he has children to take care of how dare you look at such expensive rings.

I was stunned. I wasn't trying to be selfish at all. I'm so laid back and not greedy. But maybe I am in this case. Am I greedy by really like a $250 ring? Please be honest. I wasn't trying to be selfish or break the bank

Edit! The ring is in 10k white gold with a little diamond surrounded by amethysts (purple is my favourite colour!) And the band of the ring is plain.

We haven't really looked much yet for wedding bands however we both have an idea of what we want. He likes the idea of tungsten and I just want a thin plain white gold band. If we can we would like to stay under $1000 for all 3 which I think is reasonable for us. In fact would prefer less than $800 if we can becauee at the end of the day it's his love that I adore not some ring that I know we could not afford and would put us in a bind😊