Would you give up your Rolex to indulge your partner?

[WatchEater666]

She quit her job making good $ for me
She moved countries for me
She has lived in a few shitty countries b/c of me for an extended period of time

Least I could do is sell a watch :-)

[mjwalter80]

I am lucky enough that my wife's luxury good of choice is also watches. It allows us to enjoy the hobby together and share watches.

[JSCP]

Please

[rolexgiants]

Originally Posted by HHIslander

No, but I’d float her a loan.

With INTEREST of course!

[RTG]

Originally Posted by thegrandseirolexguy

Just a hypothetical question.

If you only had one Rolex, would you sell it so that the wife could indulge herself in other luxury goods (jewellery, purses etc)?

This assumes you don’t want to cough up more cash and that you could comfortably afford what she wanted anyway without selling the Rolex.

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Selling your watch makes the purchase about you, and ruins the joy for her. Did you marry so poorly that she is not worth a nice gift? Or is it the opposite?

Buy her something nice. There is great happiness to be found spreading joy, especially with someone you love.

[HiDive]

She has her own Rolex.

[Yobber76]

No!

[xrole]

Originally Posted by WatchEater666

She quit her job making good $ for me
She moved countries for me
She has lived in a few shitty countries b/c of me for an extended period of time

Least I could do is sell a watch :-)

The least you could do for her is sell a watch for... absolutely no reason? As her random demand? When you 'can comfortably afford both your watch and her jewellery'?

[msdaytona]

No chance. I would trade her for a Rolex.

[KyloRen]

Depend if she is on TRF or not..

[watchwatcher]

Let me get this straight. You're asking if I would sell my watch so she could take the money and go blow it?

Where did you even come up with that question?

[georgew]

Originally Posted by HiDive

She has her own Rolex.

Which I bought for her on our anniversary (and she bought me another rolex as well). In fact, every piece of fine jewelry she has I bought for her (and sometimes with her). We've been fortunate in our life where she can buy clothes etc she wants - luckily, she's very pragmatic about it. So, it's hard to imagine a scenario where I'd sell a rolex so she could shop (but with more than 1 rolex, I'd probably consider it - doubt she'd ask though)

[piratfisk]

This situation would never happen. Ultimatums in marriage are the beginning of the end. My watches are mine, irrespective of my wife, and the purchases of said watches don't effect her life in the slightest. I don't buy watches I can't afford, so she'd never make a request to sell one if money was an issue.

What a goofball question... I could see one partner asking another to stop smoking for the sake of their health, but to give up a non-harmful joy like a golden wristwatch... I'll pay for the taxi to the family law attorney.

[Philadelphialawyer1]

lol

[AF_Rob]

I’m not going to go spend money on myself that I am not willing to spend on her.


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[Travis29]

Originally Posted by AF_Rob

I’m not going to go spend money on myself that I am not willing to spend on her.


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This…

[Boopie]

“The wife” here.

No. Luxury goods are, definitionally, not necessary.

If I couldn’t afford luxury goods, I wouldn’t dream of asking my husband to give up something he enjoyed for the sole purpose of indulging my gratuitous cravings. I don’t crave what I can’t afford.

If my husband asked me to sell my Rolex so he could get something he wanted, I’d tell him to go make more money.

Fortunately, we are in a position to buy what we want, so none of these scenarios ever existed. We married young, while still in school, and it never occurred to me to expect anything more than a plain gold wedding band. The thought of wanting a diamond ring, while we were both still in graduate school and living at home to save money, was patently absurd. We then saved every penny we had, and lived very frugally, so we could afford a down payment on a house. We never bought a car that was beyond our means. I never even considered buying a Rolex until it was financially feasible to do so.

So, the OP’s scenario makes no sense to me. Either you have money to buy luxury goods, or you don’t. I don’t see only one getting expensive luxury goods while the other does without, unless it’s by choice. There are plenty of couples where one is totally satisfied with a Timex where the other wears a luxury watch.

O. Henry’s “Gift of the Magi” is different because both Della and Jim were poor, and they, on their own, secretly, sacrificed what was most precious to them to give a special Christmas gift to the other. Della didn’t expect Jim to sell his beloved heirloom pocket watch so she could have the hair comb she wanted.

[Quaress]

luckily I'm like Leonardo Dicaprio, no wife needed. Otherwise it would be goodbye wife.

[dtwer]

If you have to sell a piece of jewelry in order to afford another piece of jewelry, you are hardly in a position to afford either.

[BigNasty66]

Given up a watch won't be my first option, but if otherwise I'd.