Those were the thoughts of Dunedin woman Adrienne Buckingham, who recently lost her $6000 engagement ring which her husband had saved for by working extra hours while the pair were overseas.
Mrs Buckingham had returned home from a children's birthday party on Saturday when she noticed the ring was missing.
It was most likely lost when she stopped in York Pl and pulled her keys out of her jacket pocket, she said.
"I felt ill, my stomach dropped.
"More than anything, [I was hurt] about how much I've hurt him because it wasn't mine - it's his."
Mrs Buckingham and her husband Stewart Tagg met in Dunedin in 2007 and moved to Kuwait to teach later that year.
Mr Tagg taught at a school during the day and tutored a family privately most nights to earn extra income for the ring.
Mrs Buckingham had not known that was why her husband was working overtime.
Mr Tagg bought the ring in Dunedin in 2009 when the couple returned for his mother's funeral, before proposing in London later that year.
The yellow gold ring, which had a .75 carat diamond and diamonds on either side in a channel setting, signified a time when the pair, now with three daughters and a step-son, were young and free, she said.
"It's not about the value, it's about the fact that ring has travelled everywhere."
Saturday was the first time since the birth of the couple's third child seven months ago the ring had fit Mrs Buckingham's finger, she said.
