[widebody911]

To me, expecting specific high-dollar 'tokens of love' is synonymous with prostitution.

Period.

You've just created a social contract (binding, mind you) where her 'love' is being traded for whatever bauble strikes her fancy at any given moment.

If she expects 2 or 3 carats aka $25k-$35k investment, that's a bad sign. What will you have to spend to 'prove your love' next year?

Ever see one of those Discovery Channel segments where a hurricane embeds a straw in a tree or somesuch? That would be her a$$ (for once the punctuation is fitting) in the door.

Seriously.

Spend the money to finish the conversion, and if you really need the ******* that bad, drive it up to the Mustang Ranch every other weekend.

No, I'm not married. DeBeers et al can take their "2 months salary" rule and shove it.

Reminds me of the joke where a guy is talking to a girl in a bar.,
He asks her: "Would you sleep with me for a million dollars?"
"Hell yes!" she says.
"Would you sleep with me for $20?"
"Hell no - what do you think I am, a whore?"
"We've already established that, now we're just negotiating the price."

I spent a lot of time in my younger days being a plaything for these types.