Wedding Rings, Should You Wear Them?

Well, it won't send you to hell, but personally I think it is evil to not wear a wedding ring if you are married. The only exception I would make to this is that if not wearing the ring is an issue of affordability.

Not everyone knows you are married. When you walk into your local grocery store, church or restaurant, by not having a wedding ring on, you are giving someone an invitation to ask you out on a date. Not just a church lunch or dinner with friends and family date, a romantic date. One that could and should lead to marriage.

"I don't know you" Is irrelevant when asking for a date. One purpose of dating is to get to know the person enough that you can decide whether or not they are marriage material. If you are a Christian and the other person is an atheist, then you are clearly not marriage material for each other.

If one of you belong to the Church of Christ and the other is a Southern Baptist, then it will take a little longer (but not much) to decide whether you are marriage material, you will have to sort through issues on which the two groups differ and decide whether you can live with those different beliefs or not. When I belonged to the Christian Churches/Churches of Christ I did not think that the issue of salvation was an important difference. Now that I am a southern Baptist, I think it is a very important distinction.

But I digress. That's a subject for another article. Wedding rings let people know you are married, by not wearing a wedding ring, you are indeed claiming that you are single.

But there is another problem with rings; some people wear so many rings that you can't tell one from the other. I once had a date with a young lady who had a ring on every finger. She just said "I love rings." The problem with society today, is even people who use to know can't tell the difference between rings. Is it a class ring, an engagement ring, a wedding band? How does one know if you are available? Wear your wedding band on the 4^th finger (ring finger) of your left hand (even if you're left handed) and not many other rings. If you're engaged, wear your engagement ring, so us single guys and gals will know you are not available, and yes it is OK to for gals to ask guys out on dates if we have no rings on our fingers.