Guy Accidentally Sends Picture Of Engagement Ring To Girlfriend, Keeps Her From Opening It, Surprises Her Weeks Later

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mattstaff
Jul 26, 2019 11:00 AM EDT

This guy almost found himself confronting total disaster after accidentally sending a picture of his fiancé's engagement ring to her. Fortunately, he was able to throw her off the trail with some clever maneuvering, and actually pulled off the surprise weeks later. Congrats to the dude as well, cause it looks like she said yes! Love is alive and well in this post. 

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    tifu - Text - r/tifu +JOIN u/sshep49 9h 1 TIFU by sending a picture of the engagement ring to my girlfriend tldr: Accidentally sent my gf the picture of the engagement ring, kept her from opening it, had to come up with a fake surprise to throw off her suspicions. So this was actually a few months ago. I (24M) had just recently bought an engagement ring to propose to my at the time girlfriend (24F). I was on the phone with a good friend of ours to tell him the news, and wanted to send him the pi
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    tifu - Text - So I put him on speaker phone and clicked into the text thread, attached the picture, and clicked send. Welp, it was immediately after clicking send that I noticed the texts in the thread didn't look right. I looked up at the name at the top of the thread and my heart stopped: It was my gf. "Shit" I said over the phone. My friend asked what was wrong, and I told him l'd have to call him back. Tried finding a way to cancel the message to no avail. As a last ditch effort, I called he
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    tifu - Text - She sounded concerned, and asked "Is this something I should be worried about? You're kinda scaring me lol". "No, no," I said, "I just have a little surprise for you I was trying to show someone and don't want to ruin the surprise." She relented, but still seemed (naturally) very suspicious. "Ok, I deleted it. Didn't look at it." I know your first thought might be that she looked anyway, but I can 100% promise you that girl would never, ever lie to me. The 1 or 2 times l ever tried
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    tifu - Text - So I had avoided the disaster of her seeing the ring, but now I had her HIGHLY suspicious of me, and needed a way to throw her off the scent. So I immediately went and found a cute little necklace on Etsy I knew she'd like, and bought it and had it shipped to her house. Later that week she got it and texted me, saying I was very sweet and she loved my surprise. Phew. A few weeks later I actually managed to pull off a surprise proposal against all odds, since she had been telling fr
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    tifu - Box - u/sshep49 /sshep49 37m + FOLLOW Ring
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