My good friend just broke off his engagement to a chick he's been with for five years. It's a bad thing because he lived at her house, with her furniture, and hung with her crowd. She had just convinced him to buy a house (for them) and she refused to live in it until he gutted the whole house and refinished it to her liking. So now the dude is living in an empty house, sleeping on an air mattress on top of cold sub-flooring, with no shower. He eats cereal for dinner every day out of a giant serving bowl which is pretty awesome but I'm sure he isn't stoked on it. They're both friends of mine so it's awkward having to pick and choose which one to invite to upcoming events.
It's a good thing because the chick is kind of terrible some times. The house she's in now is her parent's lake house that they gifted her. She drives a car that they bought her. She works a job that her father created for her at his business. She really hasn't had to do a thing in her whole life, so she's can be super spoiled and unappreciative. I like her, and I've been friends with her for a while ...but the split is a good thing for both of them. Also stoked that the dude now has time for friends again.
It sounds terrible but it's kind of funny hearing all the gnarly shit going down in the breakup. Like she wants to keep the ring and use it as a means to pay her parents back for some of the wedding deposits, but her parents are super wealthy so you know that's not an issue. I think the dude dropped like a car's worth of money on that ring.