our promise rings 💍🤍

in april, my boyfriend and i will make our 5 year anniversary!!!

we both got each other promise rings at different points in our relationship. we met when we were 17 at our college orientation and we were friends for 8 months before dating. we’ve been together ever since then and it’s been a dream ☁️🩵

5 months into us dating, for my 18th birthday, my boyfriend surprised me and and got a promise ring! i was so shocked. he’s my first bf (although not my first partner) and my first irl long term relationship, so i never had that experience before. he also wrote me the sweetest letter to go along with it with his promises to me as his girlfriend. it was sooo romantic i couldn’t believe it 🥹 he said he knew i was the one from then and it was his first time he felt compelled to buy a promise ring. i’ve worn it everyday since then. i absolutely love it, it’s such a sweet reminder of how much he loves me.

in december of 2022 (3 years later) i decided i wanted to get him a promise ring as well! we actually became long distance in august of 2022 when he moved across the country to go to pilot school 🥲 we have never been apart before so it was definitely difficult at first. i loved my promise ring so much, it’s constant reminder he’s always with me even with the distance between us. i wanted him to have the same thing! we had other matching jewelry before but they wouldn’t last super long so i wanted to get him a permanent piece of jewelry from me. i bought it on etsy and it has amethyst, which is his favorite crystal. he really loves it and wears it everyday now!

i know for some people it might be silly, but we were really young when we started dating and even now, we probably won’t be able to be engaged for a while as we’re both still finishing school. especially being long distance now, our promise rings mean so much to us! it’s like a physical expression of our love to each other. i can’t wait for the day we get engaged and married 🤍

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2024/3/20 Edited to

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