[MENTION=69470]CleanCut[/MENTION], I think you are focusing on the wrong issue here. The issue isn't the $6000 for the ring, it's the fact that the OP feels her efforts in going to visit him every weekend are not being acknowledged or reciprocated. For some people $6K for a ring is acceptable, and for others, it's not. If it was such a big deal for her BF, he could have discussed that with her in a much more pleasant way instead of calling her demanding or spoiled -- which the OP doesn't come across as by reading this. That's really beside the point. I think the OP's addition of that comment was to say that she's spent well over that amount of money in travel expenses and time going to visit him, and she can't seem to understand why he doesn't want to compromise, plus she said she was willing to split the cost, so she continues to try to negotiate with him and compromise and those efforts are not being acknowledged by her BF.
She is working on her Masters while he remodels his house, so they are both busy and have obligations that tie them down to their respective lives, but she has consistently been the one to make the effort to travel to him and she is starting to feel resentful about it. Let's focus on the actual problems, one at a time, and give advice toward that, instead of push our irrelevant opinions onto her about how much an engagement ring should cost.