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A woman who has everything - and I mean everything

Here is my bemoaning tale of woe.
*Violins and bagpipes playing softly and sad in the back ground*

It was the summer of 1984 - I was 18 and had just graduated from high school and she was 15 - A gorgeous brunette with huge hazel eyes that I immediately fell deeply in to - It was as if by fate that our eyes met across a crowded football stadium where we both had arrived with our respective friends to watch the fireworks on the fourth of July. It was on that fateful day that I was first introduced to the crazy, beautiful, intoxicating and later to be painful roller-coaster of emotions of which I had never before experienced in my short experience of life - this thing called love - by summers end she had become my best friend and continued to be for 20 + years afterwards.

After college we rented an apartment and later purchased a condominium together and created a fantastic life together on the coast in the San Francisco Bay area - she completed her masters and doctorate degrees while I owned and operated my own business which I later sold and began a promising career in gemology with the world famous jewelry brand, Tiffany & Co.

In 2006 after a tedious process of background checks, multiple interviews and lie detector tests she was offered a position with the Federal government - more specifically the CIA at their headquarters in Mclean, Virginia just outside Washington D.C.

It was a great opportunity for her and us ( so I thought at the time ) and we along with our only child (a sweet brown tabby cat named Gracie) moved to Northern Virginia - I was able to transfer from San Francisco to D.C. with my job and everything seemed to in our favor as we left our home in the west in exchange for hopes and dreams to be fulfilled on the East coast - It was to be the beginning of new adventure for us - We bought a home in Reston, VA and after being together for over 20 years I finally saw the time was right and bought a Tiffany (4 carat total weight) diamond and aquamarine engagement ring. I proposed marriage on the 'fourth of July' in Georgetown and She of course said yes. We celebrated until the sun came up over the Washington Monument and soon afterwards formed a plan and made arrangements to be married the following year in Carmel, CA.

Fast forward to September 2008 - We were married in the presence of our families and closest friends on a sunny fall day on the beautiful coast of Northern California with the Pacific Ocean as our backdrop and honey-mooned on the "Big Island" of Hawaii. Everything was perfect. So I thought.

The day we returned home I discovered that she was having an affair with a co-worker - she had even called him one hour before our wedding ceremony - she could not deny it and I was devastated and left that day and have never gone back to the home we had planned to start our new life in - she is still in a relationship with this man - he was also married until I did him a favor and called his wife and told her about the affair and she kicked him out of her house and into mine.

It's been over a year now and feel I am in a healthy place mentally over the whole thing except for one issue - I would like my engagement ring and diamond wedding band that she accepted from me in the name of commitment returned to me as she couldn't keep her wedding vows for even a day (she talked to him every day whiles we were on our honeymoon)

By choice I walked away from everything - the house and all of it's new furnishings, our wedding gifts even my clothes except for the suitcase from our trip that I had not had time to unpack yet and everything that we had accumulated together over the period our 24 year relationship. No regrets there - however, She says that the rings were a "gift" and therefore she is entitled to keep them.

Is it too much to ask for her to return these rings to me?