chongli's posts really just seem like they are encoding their own superstitions about relationships in a backsplanation for why things are the way they are. It really sounds like someone coping with buyer's remorse for having wasted so much money on a ring.

I've seen people do the same thing with their wedding that left them $30k in debt.

I totally buy their reasoning for why they did it, but they lose me when they prescribe it to everyone else.