I’m married. I wear a large, plain gold wedding ring (family heirloom from my grandmother) and gold/diamond engagement ring on my left hand. My husband Ryosuke also wears a large, plain gold wedding band on his left hand. Actually, Ryouske started wearing his wedding band shortly after we got engaged. He thought it wasn’t fair how I got an engagement ring and he didn’t. He still thinks the fact that only girls get to wear an engagement ring is very sexist. Moving on. Two years ago, right after we got engaged, I started doing that sneaky “check for a wedding ring” glance at people I met or people I see on the train. I wanted to see who else was married. You know, curiosity. Except I rarely saw a wedding band in Japan. Which either meant that 80% of the men on the train or in the office I worked at were unmarried… or they chose not to wear a wedding band. I didn’t know the polite way to phrase “Hey, I know we just met and we’re only working on this one project together, but I heard from the person who introduced us that your wife is also from Ibaraki. So [...]
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