So You Want to Give an Engagement Ring for Christmas

I am man. Man unaware of many things woman thinks & feels. This topic apparently hits deep, and although man perplexed, this man in minority.

OK, enough of trying to sound like a caveman (no offense Geico guy). I feel like I just arrived from another planet after a workplace discussion today that revolved around the topic of, "Can an engagement ring also be a Christmas gift?"

What could make for a better, more romantic, love-filled, future-focused, endearing, commitment-filled Christmas present than an engagement ring?

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Some of My Co-Workers Look at Me Like I Had Three Heads

According to my female co-workers, absolutely anything! I had to pick my jaw up from the floor. Seriously. I don't believe what we're talking about here.

Marriage is not a gift. Your commitment to me is not a gift. An engagement ring is not a gift. This is something we enter into separate from presents.

Um, OK, I think.

I was even told that giving an engagement ring at Christmas was acceptable, but then there still needed to be a separate Christmas gift, because the ring IS NOT A GIFT. (OK, settle down, I hear you.)

I sure hope this isn't about how many gifts somebody is getting. To be honest, I am really having a hard time wrapping my head around this.

If I really try to pry my head open, in an attempt to understand -- I guess on some level I can get the fact that many feel it should be a stand-alone moment. And then in the next breath my real self says, REALLY?!?

I get it. I don't at all get it.

If my soulmate, the love of my life wants to buy me a ring and propose for Christmas, my answer would be, 'Hell Yeah"...not; "Sure, but what did you get me for Christmas?"