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Splitting The Cost Of An Engagement Ring · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: On six point seven light FM. Good morning, it is
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  Speaker 1: Jack and Nina. Thank you for start Friday with us.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you and I are a little bit old school.
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  Speaker 1: We've been both been married for quite some time. But
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  Speaker 1: I guess the new thing now is to split the
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  Speaker 1: cost of the engagement ring about well.
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  Speaker 2: As a guy, how do you feel about that? You're
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  Speaker 2: the one usually stuck with the bill, although you choose
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  Speaker 2: what to spend. That's the other thing.
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  Speaker 1: I do choose what to what to spend, much to
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  Speaker 1: the dismay of all of my wives. Oh you cheap.
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  Speaker 1: And I won't say the word that you got one
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  Speaker 1: wife left though, So that's right. And that ring I
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  Speaker 1: think is still in the jewelry box somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's the thing. You spend so much money and
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  Speaker 2: often they don't get worn.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean the whole thing. It's you could the
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  Speaker 1: engagement ring, the wedding. Everybody's spending a lot of money
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  Speaker 1: on that stuff, you know. I think, yeah, it's the
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  Speaker 1: guy who asks. I don't know if that has to
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  Speaker 1: be the tradition, the guy who gets the.
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  Speaker 2: Ring and asked to Jack, will you marry me?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that was it. Just as long as
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  Speaker 1: an acceptance would have been good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it would have been romantic. You would have
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  Speaker 2: gotten a kick out of that.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps if she said, what do you think about getting married? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: that would have been a kind of a will you
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  Speaker 1: marry me? Is really kind of ford. It is Ford.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind it. I mean, I wouldn't have been
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  Speaker 1: put off by it, like, oh, you know what, I
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  Speaker 1: was just gonna ask, Well.
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  Speaker 2: That's how you save yourself, right totally.
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  Speaker 1: But would you split the ring if Mark came to
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  Speaker 1: you and said, you know, I've got this really nice
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  Speaker 1: ring picked out, you got a cup?
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's to be honest with you. That's how I
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  Speaker 2: sort of found out he was going to ask me.
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  Speaker 2: We were walking through short from No, we were walking
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  Speaker 2: through short Hills mall. I always remember that, and he goes,
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  Speaker 2: We're walking by a jewelry store and he goes, so
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  Speaker 2: I'm thinking about buying a ring, and I wonder if
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  Speaker 2: you like And then the sentence sort of kept going.
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  Speaker 2: But I was like stunned with the beginning of it.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So then I was like, oh, but he spent
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  Speaker 2: it's a beautiful ring, but he spent too much money
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  Speaker 2: on it, and all these years later, I wish to
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  Speaker 2: tell people that you have like a house to buy,
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  Speaker 2: you have to take care of yourselves, all these other
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  Speaker 2: things in life, like the.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever told him he spent too much on.
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  Speaker 2: He's not listening. Never