{"id":121,"date":"2014-01-27T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T21:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2014\/01\/my-daughters-engagement-ring.html"},"modified":"2014-08-22T16:02:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T21:02:36","slug":"my-daughters-engagement-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2014\/01\/my-daughters-engagement-ring.html","title":{"rendered":"My Daughter’s Engagement Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

As of last night, my eldest daughter is wearing an engagement ring. For the record, her father and I are delighted to see her wearing it.<\/p>\n

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Isn\u2019t it pretty?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

17 years old and a freshman in college, she\u2019s no longer only having to deal with boys who are interested in her\u2026.she\u2019s now dealing with men\u2026and it\u2019s frustrating her. The male friends she hangs out with and the sweet boys from church and our homeschool group are nothing compared to the aggressiveness of the men in her college classes.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s a gorgeous girl with a witty sense of humor who loves to talk to people. Unfortunately, that chatty friendliness is being mistaken as romantic interest, and she\u2019s sick of it. After dealing with a particularly obnoxious string of calls and text messages all weekend from one of her classmates, she expressed her frustration that this 20-year-old man would not understand that she had no intention of dating him. Ever.<\/p>\n

She told him that she didn\u2019t want to get involved with him, told him she had a boyfriend, even warned him that her parents would never approve\u2026but he kept texting her. Which is when she blocked his number from her phone and then came to me for help.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat would you do,\u201d she asked me, \u201cto keep the boys away? I have no desire to date anyone at my college this semester, because I\u2019m 17 and I\u2019m going off to college in the fall. Is there like some kind of boy repellent out there?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes,\u201d I told her. \u201cIt\u2019s called an engagement ring.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her eyes lit up and she started to laugh. \u201cYou\u2019re brilliant, Mom.\u201d<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s why my husband and I stopped in at the mall on our date night last Saturday and purchased a couple of \u201cdiamond\u201d rings for our teenager to wear. When we got home that night, my husband dropped down on one knee in front of her and they both laughed as he asked, \u201cWill you promise to not date any creepy guys, to be more careful about who you give your number to, and to not get married until you are good and ready?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI will!\u201d she told him, and then slipped her \u201ccreepy guy repellent\u201d onto her finger.<\/p>\n

So there you have it, the new college freshman \u201cmust have<\/i>\u201d for nice girls everywhere \u2013 a fake engagement ring so that the yucky guys will leave them alone.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As of last night, my eldest daughter is wearing an engagement ring. For the record, her father and I are delighted to see her wearing it. Isn\u2019t it pretty? 17 years old and a freshman in college, she\u2019s no longer only having to deal with boys who are interested in her\u2026.she\u2019s now dealing with men\u2026and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nMy Daughter's Engagement Ring<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As of last night, my eldest daughter is wearing an engagement ring. 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