Wow, you guys sure know how to have fun.

Wow, you guys were able to climb with your own (comfortable) shoes. Kudos to Anthony.

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.

It’s just that I know many men who wear some jewelery (necklaces with a cross or earrings) almost all the time but remove it for sports (like swimming). I can’t see why one would decide never to remove the ring, as you certainly knew it would interfere climbing. It would be less strange to me the other way, if someone does not do any such activity the time he is wed and decides never to remove the ring and later does not try rock climbing because of that decision.

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

My wife and I enjoy rock climbing together and we both accept the fact that the rings are a liability to our safety and therefore choose to remove them during climbing sessions. Since we don’t ever want to be without our rings though we went to walmart and picked up a cheap 2-pack of small caribiners to clip our rings onto our harnesses.

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.