My partner and I wear silicon rings. We started out with regular rings, but we both ended up having sensory issues - mine was a giant heavy tungsten ring and theirs had too many sharp edges. I lost my massive ring and bought a silicon ring to wear while I looked for it. Never did find it but I loved the feel of silicon so much I bought my partner a set to wear too. We've been wearing them ever since, probably 10 years now. Highly recommend.

I take it off at night (Have a thing on my dresser) and when kneading bread. (Have a consistent place near my breadmaking station)

I got a cheap $10 stainless steel ring off amazon. Later upgraded to a $50 dollar ring when in Peru on vacation. Screw spending a fortune on jewelry. No average person cares about it anyway. Value the meaning, not cost.

No. I occasionally have to lift heavy objects and if there's one kind of injury I really want to prevent it's degloving. Do not look it up if you're squeamish.

Single af myself, but my parents are still married and always have their wedding rings on. I'm not even sure I've ever seen them without them. Not even sure if they could even remove them anymore.

Mine doesn't even come off for that. You'd think it would get nasty under there not being dried properly, but it's been about (two wives with a gap between - can't be bothered working out the exact time) 35 years and zero problems.

My SO wears his but I don't wear mine.

ah good point, I edited it to add the country. It's true there is a US-centrism both in the mindsets of Americans, but also online in general (at least in English speaking spaces), so it does become a kind of "default place" that way

yay imperialism 🫠

Yep, got mine off amazon too. Actually got a spare just in case. On for ten years shortly.

We both do, yeah.

Yep.

Pretty much, yep.

I can't stand metal ones but I wear my silicone one close to 24/7 just taking it off it give it a thouruogh clean in the shower.

... Did I miss out on some state sponsored wedding ring!?

Wore mine for about the first 10 years. Always catching it on something and needing expensive repairs. I'm not a jewellery person otherwise so eventually I quit wearing it except special occasions. It's been another 25 years and no one asks. If I meet someone new the first things they learn about me are my husband and kids - no ring needed. I got hit on more when I wore my wedding ring than I do now but that may simply be an age thing. My husband continued to wear his but in the last few years has worn it less, mainly because he has new hobbies where it could be a danger and then he forgets to put it back on. He wears a family ring and an engineers ring as well so he is more accustomed to wearing rings. Only one who bugs me about it is my SIL. She's angling for another ring and my BIL points out that I don't wear one, let alone have 3 different sets.

Yes I have one, no I don't wear it all the time, nor does my wife wear hers all the time. I go for stretches sometimes where I wear it a lot, but it is slightly oversized, which makes it slightly uncomfortable after a while, and I'm scared it will slip off (i lost my first band, this is my replacement). It's almost always in my pocket though. My wife mostly only wears hers for special occasions. Neither of us are jewelery people in general.

Neither of us do. We stopped after the first year or so since neither of us like rings.

You don't make use of "the stranger"?

Yeah, I'm not the kind of woman that men would hit up on (too butch..) and now of course I'm old and weathered and other than the really old guys that appreciate someone that can tune up their own car (I have had men decades older than I am, come up to me and shake my hand when working on the car in the driveway.. go figure!) no one looks twice at me. What I wear also doesn't help. LOL!

Same here. It was just annoying

Yes, and yes.

At this point my wedding ring feels like a part of me. When I take it off and especially if I hand it to someday else that feels weird and alarming.

My skin is an asshole and the ring didn't help. After some days it started itching and peeling and I just wore it on special occasions afterwards.

We're divorced now, but I kept it out in the open, because it reminds me of the good times we had together. And we had a lot (and we're still friends).

We have rings but we don't wear them all the time; I can't stand wearing it whilst in the shower or going to the gym.

My wife and I made our own wedding rings from wood. We don't wear them since they are fairly fragile.

Yeah, my wedding ring is a really nice black-stained wood with a malachite band, but I noticed it was getting scratched from daily wear, so I wear a silicone workout ring day to day. I bust out the real one for special occasions.

Have one (two), never wear it.

I found out the hard way that I was allergic to something in my first one. It was tungsten carbide and I think that's sometimes bound with cobalt or nickel which some people are allergic to. Luckily, I got it off before my finger swelled too much... reminder that super strong metals are not a good idea for rings. I was young, dumb, and thought "tungsten carbide = cool" without thinking all the way through it.

After that, I made a replacement but I'm a code monkey with very thin fingers and it was constantly annoying me by moving around so I took it off and never put it back on. If silicone rings had been readily available back then I might've switched to one of those and stuck with it since they don't move.

The spouse wears their band all the time and has never expressed annoyance about me not wearing mine... it's been about 25 years.

Yes! I have my real ring that I took off when I got pregnant and my fingers got fat, once the baby was 6mo I put it back on. My husband had to take his off for work a lot since the metal is a conductor, so i got him a silicone one. I liked his so much i got myself one and wear that full time. It's better for playing with the child.

I have it, I wear it all the time, I don't like it, but I also don't dislike it enough to care

I do have a wedding ring with some inscription inside. Now my sausage hands grew so my wife bought me a cheap Amazon ring to fit. It's for her peace of mind.

Yes and I always wear it all the time except when I make pizza

Yeah I got a platinum ring that felt pricey but it was easily stretched half a size at a jeweler for free and it should be easy to cut if I ever get in a stuck situation. It did irritate my skin at first when water got trapped in there but I take it off for showers/washing dishes now.

On a serious note, I do like it and I love that it gets worn and has scratches. I could polish it up but looking forward to being old and seeing physical wear marks of having a long marriage.

except when I make pizza

Man, I thought I was up on the current slang, but this one is new to me!

I bought a bunch of silicone rings because I'm a cheap bitch who eloped and works in factories. At some point I will probably buy a fancier ring, but I've got basically no sense of style for jewelry. And no I wear it to work and generally when I'm out, but not really when I'm at home. I also have a piercing that symbolizes my relationship with my wife and I only remove that when medically necessary

Yes, I wear it except when handling raw meat or in the shower.

Its not an expensive ring. I think it was like $20. It is the second ring because the first one wore out and broke.

It’s the superficial coloring layers that get scratched or faded over the course of years. Hence the need for a new one. So yes I’m confident the ring is tungsten carbide.

I used to. But it gets in the way. I work on things that can have angry electrons. 12v 50A. 48V 100A and sometimes 500v to 5000v. I like my finger more than any pretentious or misguided thinking about a piece of metal meaning anything. I keep mine somewhere in clean part of a shelve at home I use it for when we go out together. I wouldn't want someone there think I'm up for grabs or something.

I guess he wears a wedding ring, but he doesn't turn up all that often, and the wedding ring hasn't caused me any issues.