I’ve been married to my incredible husband for 5 years. This ring was sooo perfect I couldn’t believe how incredible of a job he did picking it out by himself. To this day when I look down at my finger and brings tears of joy to my eyes. It speaks to his attention to detail in everything he does to show me he loves me.

Unfortunately we have had continuous problems with it. Losing halo stones left and right. Center stone becoming lose and even some parts of the intricate design breaking. The company we got the ring from covers it all with no charge under the warranty. Which is great! But each time I take it in it’s weeks without my ring and so then I end up wearing it with missing stones because I don’t want to let go of it again. (And we don’t live close so it’s a trip to get it there and get it back)

It’s been in every year since I’ve had it for repairs (I do not do any rigorous work that would be damaging my ring) it probably would have gone in more if I wasn’t so hesitant about taking it in. But after picking it up the last time from repair, in a matter of two days I was missing three stones already.

So I finally got it back to the the company yesterday and decided I wanted to ask about any options I might have.

I had one of their jewelers tell me that that’s what I could expect from a rose gold ring because the metal is weaker (sometime ago) so when I mentioned that intending to ask if it would be possible to explore having it reset in white gold dipped in rose so it would look the same but be stronger. The woman at the store said that’s absurd it’s not a weaker metal that 14k gold is 14k gold no matter which it is. And then when I tried to look online to see if I found anything to validate either side I kept finding articles saying it’s actually stronger so I have no idea what is actually true on that part.

However she said that sometimes when a style is released there are more problems than expected and she could see this style being that way with the tiny details and all. She said after all the issues I have a lot of time the company is going to offer to buy back the ring and allow me to chose a different one. And while I appreciate the company trying to right their wrong.. I don’t want a different one. I mean sure there are plenty of beautiful rings that I would love to have but it’s not the same. It’s not the ring my husband poured his heart into when he decided this was the one. It’s not the one that’s been sitting on my finger through every hill and valley we’ve faced. It’s not my ring.

So now I feel at a loss. The company will respond with what they want to do within a week. I don’t know if I just say to heck with the company and take it to a jeweler who will maybe help me figure out a solution to make my ring better/stronger, but then the company did nothing to fix this problem which I kind of feel like it’s reasonable to want them to fix it to an extent. But I just don’t know if I can be okay with letting go of my wedding ring and picking a different one..

Maybe I’m being hormonal and unreasonable I just don’t know.

I’d love any advice you have to offer!