How strong is the wedding ring? Is it your prrrrrrrrrecious? (wife, marriage)

[crossing over]

How do you relate to what the ring symbolizes ? Do you wear yours? If not, why so?

I'd be curious to see whether there are men out there who trust it has a power or do you just wear because the wife wants you to ... or without giving much consideration to the gesture. Same question for women.

Your input is much appreciated.

[zaicheg]

Not so much the ring, it's really all in the mind. Ring or no ring, it's the mind that matters.

[Hayato]

I dont wear my ring. I fear that it's going to get caught in some powertool or engine part one day and make me lose my arm

[Augustabuckeye]

I would only wear mine sometimes due the to work that I do...Until I realized how much it means to my wife.

So now I wear from the time I wake up until I go to sleep. I take it off for work sometimes but have a small carabiner on my key chain that I slip the ring in. That way when I pick my keys up to go home at the end of the day...the ring is there.

She's much happier due to the little change in my actions...

[Lovestorun]

I wear mine all the time, and it's spectacular. But it doesn't define me or my relationship with my husband.

[Ivorytickler]

A wedding ring advertises to the world you are married. You're either proud or not proud to advertise the fact.

[LaoTzuMindFu]

I never take my wedding ring off. Never. Although its just a piece of gold, what it symbolizes is the most important thing in the world to me - my marriage, my love, my wife.

[In the Pines]

After moving to a very humid climate (fingers swell) and after having babies, I don't wear my wedding rings around the house hardly at all. I will slip them on before church or a night out or something special but for everyday living - I usually don' wear them. Even after having my rings re-sized to account for summer swelling (they now fall off in the winter), I found that jewelry makes me uncomfortable when I'm working - my diamond would scratch my babies tender skin or get caught in their clothes and I don't like the idea of my wedding rings getting crusted with gunk as I clean the house or work in the yard. It doesn't, in any way, affect how I feel about my marriage. Marriage is a state of mind - I carry myself as a married women and am certain to keep boundaries that let everyone know "I love my husband". In the end, the rings are beautiful and sentimental but they are just jewelry.

[TheImportersWife]

I was committed to my husband before the rings. I wear my rings b/c I love the bling.

My husband doesn't wear a wedding band. Never has. It's a non-issue for us. My father never wore a wedding band either and my parents have been married 39 years.

[carlitasway]

LMAO@ my prrrrrrrrrecious! I work as a cook and dishwasher at a daycare and learned wearing any ring isn't a good thing. I put it on a necklace and wear it around my neck. I do love my ring but if I lost it I wouldn't die or go crazy.