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"You&amp;amp;#8217;ll have to tell me what you think about this&amp;amp;#133; In certain situations, I definitely think so. I felt like I was looked at differently by some of my co-workers once I was engaged. Granted, I was working at a wedding magazine, so officially being a part of the publication&amp;amp;#8217;s intended audience automatically earned me some cred. Still, when I went on job interviews for non-wedding magazines, those employers seemed to look at me as being more mature than I actually was because of the ring on my finger, too. In fact, when I met with the top dog at one company, she chatted more about weddings than my job skills (and she offered me the gig)! True, I may have scored the position regardless of my marital status, yet I&amp;amp;#8217;d guess that the fact that I was getting married would have put me ahead of another candidate if all other things about the two of us were equal. It&amp;amp;#8217;s not fair (and it definitely breaks EEO policies!), but I think it may be true. I didn&amp;amp;#8217;t notice any different treatment outside of the work world, though. My friends and family obviously didn&amp;amp;#8217;t change their feelings about me. I did think that just maybe I&amp;amp;#8217;d be taken more seriously by salespeople at the rare high-end store I entered. My bit of bling definitely didn&amp;amp;#8217;t change how I was treated in those places--I was still mostly ignored. So do you think engaged girls get more respect than those who have yet to become engaged? Have you seen soon-to-be married women at work get ahead over their unengaged counterparts? Are there any other places where engaged ladies get better treatment than ring-less gals? More About Getting Engaged Should I Date Around Before Getting Engaged to the Only Boyfriend I&amp;amp;#8217;ve Ever Had? 6 Things You Absolutely Must Know About Each Other Before You Get Engaged 7 Guys Who Don&amp;amp;#8217;t Make Good Husbands More Ways to Get Glamour Visit Shopglamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter Add us to your iGoogle homepage Photo: George Doyle"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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