📝 AITA for wanting my Mom's wedding ring back?

By MemphisSucks • Score: 3 • April 8, 2025 10:32 PM


I'm a 60 year old woman. I inherited my mom's wedding ring after she died, and cherished it. This was over 30 years ago. My beloved son asked if he could have Mom's ring to propose to his girlfriend in 2018, and after much thought I agreed. I was so sure this marriage would last. Unfortunately, it did not. She left, and eventually made us buy the ring back for $16k. My son was devastated. They had been married 2 years. Fast forward to December 2019 - my son was so depressed he ended it and this shattered my heart and I went into a deep depression. During this time, I couldn't look at the ring without thinking of him and how he was so broken hearted when his wife left, that he did what he did. I no longer cared about anything. I did not have a safe place to keep the ring, and gave it to my sister for safekeeping, and at one point said she could give it to her partner if she wished. I admit that freely. I soon started grief therapy, and continued that for quite a while, and eventually went to in patient treatment. It's 3 years later and I am in a better place, but still grieving of course. I now want my ring back and can wear it and think of Mom, and push back the brief horrible past linked to it. I started asking my sister about it, and in 3 years it had just sat in a safe. I told her I wanted it back in a voicemail, because she wouldn't answer my calls and texts about it. A month after I started asking about the ring, she took it to get resized for her partner - AFTER I started asking about it. I tried to explain that in my deep depression and grief, I wasn't in my right mind, thinking she would understand. The only communication she returned was a text saying she got it resized for her partner, and that was all. I've tried to call them both, have texted, and I'm being completely ignored. I'm not letting this go. So, AITA for wanting my ring back, and what do I do now? I'm actually shocked she is acting like this.

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