'My wife lost her wedding ring - I refuse to talk to her until she finds it'

01 November 2023 , 15:53

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Fuming husband gives wife the silent treatment after she lost her wedding ring (Image: Getty Images)

Forgive and forget? Not so for this fuming husband, who is giving his wife the silent treatment after she lost her wedding ring. Tensions simmered when he discovered not only had his other half misplaced the band, but that she’d failed to mention it to him.

“She took it off during her weekly martial arts class. Didn’t look for it until she got home, found out the ring must have fallen out of her training bag somewhere between the gym and home. Didn’t tell me she’d lost her ring, I found out from the kids instead,” he wrote on Reddit.

“She’d come home while I was getting dinner ready and went straight to have a shower. When my kids told me she’d lost her ring, I immediately went searching for it, emptied the training bag, checked the car, came up empty-handed.”

The annoyed spouse initially stayed schtum about the incident, and decided the best course of action, rather immaturely, was to not communicate with his wife. “I didn’t say anything at dinner. She didn’t say anything either. We both went to bed without speaking. I woke up this morning, made the lunch boxes for our kids, got ready for work, and she got up as I was leaving and asked me if I was upset. I said I was upset about the ring and left,” he added.

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Some might say the husband is massively overreacting, but he describes the ring as “quite literally irreplaceable.” He explained: “Her wedding ring has strong sentimental value for me. I bought us matching gold bands when we married, and each year on our anniversary I go to a jeweller and have one diamond set into the band. Number fourteen was added a few months ago.

“The ring is a thing, not a person, and therefore not as important as my wife or our relationship. But it’s also a symbol, full of meaning, and it’s infuriating to know it’s gone, and she didn’t take better care of it, put it in her purse or somewhere more secure than rolling around loose in a gym bag.”

Reddit users suggested he pull back the cold shoulder and put himself in his wife’s shoes. One replied, “Yes, the ring is special, you can feel upset about it, but how do you know your wife doesn’t also feel really bad about it?” while another said: “This was an honest accident, she didn’t mean to lose it. Her reluctance to bring up the subject with you suggests she knew you’d react badly, and you have.”

Thomas Stichbury