In your case I totally understand the decision to leave your ring on. For us being rock addicts there was no way we were going to give it up due to our rings so we made compromises – which is what marriage is all about anyways.

Now, you will get a lot of female fans with the wedding ring comment!

Griselda . Arlington, TX

Maybe I’m just influenced by how I feel uncomfortable with anything on my wrist though. I hate when I have to wear a wristband for some occasion. Sadly, this includes the swimming pool I go to now, they require us to wear the paper wristband they give to enter. I don’t like wristwatches either: when I used to wear them I often removed them (or temporarily put them on my other wrist) because my skin just felt inconvenient and sweaty under them. About a year ago, when I broke the strap of my watch, I decided not to buy a new one but instead finally start to not wear one. If I want to tell the time, I instead use my mobile phone, which I usually wear on my belt but sometimes in a pocket. (I still use the watch when holding practical classes in the university, but I put it on the desk instead of on my wrist.) I never worn anything continuously for days around my neck, but I think I would find it inconvenient too. This (the wrist too) is more psychological than physical, it’s not like the watch had any actual harm on my skin. (I do tolerate putting the strap of some device like a camera or a lucky medal around my neck or wrist for a shorter time.) I never worn a ring because I had no reason to (I’m not married), but I’m quite sure I would hate to wear one continuously. I’ve no idea how I’d handle a wedding ring. The same is true about an earring, but luckily, unlike a ring, there’s no reason why I’d need to wear one any time in the future anyway. I’m a 25 year old human male living in Hungary.

To me a wedding band is a symbol of one’s fidelity in marriage, and I never want to take mine off. Period. I don’t really care what you think of it, and can’t imagine why you’re attacking me about it (or telling me about your sweaty skin, for that matter). —Jeffrey

Since I don’t know you I assume you don’t know me enough to do anything other than take my word for it, and I can’t imagine why you wouldn’t. I tried Band-Aids and rubber-bands and the like on the ring finger, but it just dug in too much and was painful. Like I said, I don’t intend to ever take the wedding ring off, so I didn’t have much choice about climbing. If I had been stronger (a lot stronger) I would have been doing routes that never involved that much hand, but I was never that good, so I did routes with fairly big handholds. I think at my best a 5.8 was a real challenge. —Jeffrey

I tried rock (wall) climbing once in Kyoto and they rented me a (hard to wear) climbing shoes, which was intentionally made a bit smaller than your foot. For me to keep wearing the shoes was shoes was far more difficult than actually climbing.

More importantly, you didn’t kill yourself in front of an audience with CAMERAS. I wonder how many Youtube views THAT would have brought.