This proposal came with a side of drama.
One mourning woman says her brother popped the question with a silver ring that wasn’t his to give — and it ignited a firestorm online.
In a now-viral Reddit post titled “AITA for asking for my dead sister’s ring back after my brother used it to propose,” a woman going by the username u/Classic-Amphibian963 shared how her 27-year-old brother swiped a deeply sentimental ring she had quietly kept since the death of their sister — and used it to propose to his girlfriend without asking.
“I didn’t wear it loads or flaunt it, just had it in this little box and sometimes I’d look at it when I missed her,” she wrote. “It kinda became this one thing that felt like mine, like my piece of her.”
The 19-year-old poster lost her sister at age 6, and discovered the ring among her sibling’s belongings years later.
But during a recent family gathering, she was blindsided when her brother suddenly got down on one knee and opened a ring box — revealing her keepsake.
“I wished they at least asked before taking it, as it just seems like that I didn’t really matter,” the woman (who wanted to remain anonymous) told Newsweek in a recent interview.
Even worse? The parents were apparently in on the proposal — and gave their blessing.
Her mom’s cold response? “Come on, it’s just a ring. Don’t be dramatic.”
But the poster wasn’t having it. She “snapped” and confronted her brother, demanding the ring back. That’s when the family fireworks really took off.
The brother called her selfish, accused her of destroying the proposal, and stormed off. The teen ended up weeping in the bathroom.
Later, her mom rang and asked if she was ready to apologize. When she said “not really,” mom hung up. A cousin later messaged her saying she was totally in the right.
And Reddit agrees — hard.
“The ring has been in your possession for 7 years. It’s a sentimental reminder of your sister, not a stolen family heirloom,” one user wrote.
“He took it without asking you and used it as an engagement ring for his girlfriend that seemingly never met your sister.”
Another added: “Stealing the ring from the sister that has cherished [it] for years and years to give it to his fiancé because he is too cheap to buy a new one?”
One commenter summed it up bluntly: “That’s weird af.”
The woman told the outlet she doesn’t know her brother’s fiancée well enough to predict how she’d react — but she hopes she’d understand.
“I mean, I’d hope she wouldn’t want to take it at that point, and I would like her to know how much it means to me,” she said.
Online sleuths are now urging her to tell the fiancée the truth.
Think that wedding drama is rough? One bride’s eyebrow-raising tribute to her late hubby lit a fuse earlier this spring before the vows were even exchanged.
As The Post previously reported, a 30-year-old groom sparked debate on Reddit’s “Am I the A–hole” forum after his bride-to-be revealed she plans to wear her late husband’s wedding ring on a chain during their big day.
Emily, who lost her first love, Tyler, in a car crash five years ago, married him in her early 20s and was “truly in love,” the groom wrote.
“I knew I wasn’t her first great love — and I was okay with that. Mostly,” he admitted.
But when she unveiled her “quiet tribute,” the groom was blindsided — and Reddit users backed him up, with one blunt reply reading: “Your wedding is about your relationship. Her late husband shouldn’t be part of it.”
Looks like these rings came with more baggage than bling.
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