I'm not sure how rellevant this message is for this section, but feel free to tell me so if it isn't. Just I needed a space to rant out somthing. Anyways for some time now I asked my friend Racheal if I could use her address so that my boyfriend can send me letters and vise versa, seeing as if it were sent to my house my dad would shoot me. But anyways, we have been dating for a few months now and he told me he wanted to get me a promise ring. Now when I heard about the ring he was intending on getting me, I flipped out becuase they cost way to much and he can't afford to spend his money like that, so finally he said he would get me one out of a 25 cent machine. Now the value of the ring doesn't count, the meaning behind it does. And he spent like three whole dollars trying to get one specific ring, becuase he said it looked the most like the ring he was initially going to get for me. So off he goes to send it to me and when the letter arrives, I find the side completely ripped open, and it is evident that someone picked it open with thier nails and dragged the ring out using a pencil, becuase there was eraser marks all about the inside of the letter.

You can only imagine how I felt when I got the letter in it's mangled state. I can't even bear to tell him that I didn't get it becuase he has been so excited these past two weeks on me getting it, and I swear I started crying when i saw the letter like that.

My first instinct was that the post office took it out becuase it was an object, but if the postal office did, then the letter would have either have been sent back to him, or they would have taken out the object, and send it to me with an "Object Removed." Stamp on it. And when I asked my friend if she took it out or not, she gave me this wierd look and ignored the question, saying. "It came like that."
So it is evident that she took the ring.

I mean my boyfriend obviously didn't steal it, he gave the letter himself to the mail. The mailman isn't going to take a 25 cent ring and wear it becuase he thinks it's pretty, and Racheal was the only person to have handle it last.

So what do I do now? I can't express how bad I feel. That ring was so sentimental to me, and obviously very important to my boyfriend. He said he was glad that he could afford to get me somthing nice, even if it was only a quarter. It doesn't matter to me, he could have gotten it for free and I'd still feel extremely bad right now. How could she do that to me? :sad:

I'm gonna ask what feels like an obvious question but...why would your friend steal a cheap ring? Yes, it's special to you and your boyfriend, but to her it has no meaning and it's not like it's worth anything to steal. I agree that I would probably be wary of her...but I can't think of any motive for her to steal something like that. Have you and your friend fallen out at all recently?

The only thing that I can think of that she is jealous. From my understanding from what you written, either one: she doesn't have a boyfriend or two: she does have a boyfriend but he doesn't give her nice things.

I know that the post office would send the letter back to the sender without the object cause that happened to me once. They didn't send it the letter with the M&Ms inside to my sister, they sent it back to me instead without the M&Ms (I personally think that they ate them).

That sounds like she took it. I know a lot of people like that. They tried to pretend like they didn't do it but really, they did.

I feel really bad for you. Your boyfriend sounds like a great guy for going with all this trouble trying to get you a promise ring. So it's evident that he didn't do it.

I hope for the best out of this situation.

Which was the same question I asked myself at the very beginning. "Why would she steal my ring, which has no sentimental value, whatsoever?" I wanted to give my friend to benifit of the doubt, but I mean it is so obvious that she took it. And I confronted her about it and she just seemed very distant, she didn't even answer me when I asked her about. That for me was a huge red flag.

Yeah that is what I was thinking too. She made a few comments on how cute she thought his past letters were and she'd always seem to complain about never havign a boyfriend or somthing. But I mean come on, how low can someone get? I just can't bear to tell him though. I wouldn't even know how to start.

As I am someone more immediately involved with the situation I must say I believe she took it. Rae's been sliding down a slippery slope and I wouldn't say I'm shocked she'd stoop so low. You have just gotta press it with her and see what happens. She seems to be gettin' defensive from what you've said. Ash will probably get aggressive with her over it and, if need be, I'll help her. We love ya Marie and we'll get your ring back!