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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/imzeigen on 2026-03-12 17:57:00+00:00.
It is going to be our anniversary and she is a very fit and tech girl. Saw some smart rings for sale in Costco and decided to give one to her.
She saw me looking at her jewelry box with a tape measure and asked me what I was doing and told her that I wanted to know her ring size and didn’t think much about it.
She told I’m 6-7 like nothing and that was it.
This was a week ago and apparently she told my in laws about it. That I’m going to propose. So apparently now everybody thinks I’m going to propose.
At this point I have no idea how to fix the situation besides actually giving her a ring. She is a very cool girl and would understand the situation if explained. However probably will make things a bit awkward at least
TL;DR. I asked my girlfriend her ring size to give her a smart ring and now everybody things I’m going to propose
UPDATE: Thank you all for your advice on this. Just followed your comments and 'grew a pair' and told her the truth. I told her that my in laws (yes I call them 'suegros' ) that they called me excited about the proposal news. Explaind everything and not gonna lie I saw her dissapointnment very well deep in her. She said everything is fine, made a few jokes about the ring being a GPS so I could track her and that I still could propose her with the smart ring. I told her that I want to marry her as we have previously discussed but not at this time and obviously not with what is honestly a very boring and somewhat ugly ring.