<prompt> Human: Would you stop saving for retirement to make a short term purchase?I 26m am recently engaged and frugally saved up to get my fiance 25f the ring she dreamed of, but forgot to consider expenses like a honeymoon or wedding band. So we argued about budgeting.GOAL: in 8 months save total of 13k after sales tax for the perfect rings, Hawaii travel, and travel for bachelorettebachelor parties joint goal. Do not decrease monthly savings for retirement my goal only. INCOMEEXPENSE: budget not final. For this post just know that normally I save 1k per month 8k of the goal and she goes paycheck to paycheck. We live together and save on some shared expenses.Her take home - 2k per monthRent, tv, internet, utilities - 1kGrocery - 300Gas - 150Other discretionary - 50 currently 550Save - 500My take home - 3k per month after 401k withholdings of approximate 20 of my gross payRent, tv, internet, utilities - 1kGrocery - 300Gas - 100Other discretionary - 300Savings - 1.3kThis puts us over our goal. Pretty good huh? But I think her budget is highly aggressive and difficult to make. It is missing dog expenses, gifts for holidays or weddings we are invited to, and assumes we stop hanging out with friends for almost any weekends.It ended with her feeling like she is carrying a bigger burden even though she makes less by having 500 incremental savings while Im only adding 300 incremental savings to the goal. Further she is not a planner and she cares about the ring goals while I care about retirement. She thinks we should both not save for retirement as much and I should make my side of the budget more aggressive. It makes me upset that my goal to keep retirement saving is not respected as much as I respect her ring choices. In the end, I am willing to break my goal for this to work.Again I expect we miss this budget and end up in the red. Knowing that, would it make sense to 1 pull from non liquid stock savings or 2 decrease my monthly contributions to the retirement or 3 wait and see what happens and react later?  <response>: Buy a cheaper ring 