Do you still wear your wedding ring? (gorgeous, respect, friend)

[jasperhobbs]

I always wear a ring around my collar

[numsgal]

I only have a wedding band and wear it all the time. DH worked in construction and didn't want one. I'm fine with that.

[Travelassie]

My original wedding band doesn't fit over my knuckle any longer, and my husband's matching band broke- they were flexible, consisting of linked sections. So neither of us wears our original bands any longer.

But I love wearing rings, and my husband buys them for me. I currently wear a platinum eternity band with diamonds on it, that he gave me as a gift for our 35th wedding anniversary. It's flat and very comfortable, and so beautiful.

He wears a gold band with diamonds on it that we bought for him years ago.

[jghorton]

When I started down this thread, I thought, Why would anyone NOT wear their wedding ring?

After reading a few of the potential workplace dangers, it makes more sense.

Still wear mine after 52-years -- recently had to have it stretched a half-size ... it must have shrunk some over the years!

[Mightyqueen801]

I had a plain gold band. When I was pregnant, I noticed one day that my finger was purple because the ring had gotten too tight. I tried to remove it and couldn't, so I went to the jeweler and they cut it off.

I never had it fixed, and it turned out that my pregnancy was the beginning of the end of my marriage, although it would take eight years to get there.

The cut ring was kicking around in my jewelry box for almost 20 years, and finally last year I picked it up, drove to the ocean, and threw it into the waves, sort of symbolically releasing any attachment to that part of my past. It felt good.

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by jghorton

When I started down this thread, I thought, Why would anyone NOT wear their wedding ring?

After reading a few of the potential workplace dangers, it makes more sense.

Still wear mine after 52-years -- recently had to have it stretched a half-size ... it must have shrunk some over the years!

Most electricians I know will not wear their wedding rings for safety reasons.

[GiGi603]

Yes, 38 years and still wearing it. It is a series of five very small diamonds. I have lost a diamond twice and had them replaced.

I would really just prefer a thin silver band.

Originally Posted by Tallysmom

...Also helps me detect left from right because I can’t do that very well, never have.

^ Same here! It is helpful!

[tasmtairy]

Haven't been married in 40 years, so no. I wear my great grandmothers, small gold band, engraved with their initials in 1901!! I asked a jeweler if I would hurt the engraving if I wore it and he said no. My Mom's rings are in my Dad's safe, she passed in 2007. Dad was a machinist so no, he didn't wear his.

[TheShadow]

My DH never wore any jewelry in his life, not even a wristwatch, so the fact that he always wears his ring, even though I told him he didn't have to have one, makes me feel happy. I wear mine on my left hand. I love it and we picked it out together.

I wear on my right hand a ring that I selected to have my MIL's diamond set in. She gave it to me shortly after DH and I were married because it was HER mother's engagement diamond that she'd had reset into a cocktail ring. So it's been in the family since 1912. I'm her only DIL, and she had no girls.

[Gorges]

Yes!