Ok so i know this sounds bad but hear me out My grandma (85f) gave me (26f) her wedding ring about 6 months ago during this really emotional family dinner where she was talking about getting older and wanting everyone to have something meaningful from her before she goes. she gave me the ring because she said i was the only one who still believed in “real love” (her words not mine) and honestly i cried when she gave it to me. we hugged and everything it was a whole moment

Fast forward to last week my cousin (29f) gets engaged and suddenly my grandma calls me and says she wants the ring back so she can give it to her. like she actually said “i didn’t mean to give it to you permanently” and that she was just “emotional that day.”

I told her no not in a rude way i just said like hey that ring meant something to me too and i’ve been wearing it every day since she gave it to me. It feels like a piece of her and it honestly helped me through a breakup recently. she got really weird and said i was being selfish and immature and that the ring was meant to stay in the married side of the family (i’m single btw as of now things might change in the future.)

Now my whole family is saying i’m “stealing from an old woman” and “taking advantage of her memory loss” which i didn’t even know she had like no one mentioned that until now and my cousin posted some cryptic insta story about “what’s meant for you won’t be stolen by someone desperate” and i swear it was about me.

I feel like if she really gave it to me and meant it at the time, i shouldn’t have to give it back just because someone else got engaged. like that’s not my fault right?

Aita for keeping the ring??