[Texas Fossil]

I met my wife in the last semester of college. We married the following year.

I never wear my college ring.

But cannot remember when I took off my wedding band. We had our 41st Wedding Anniversary last month.

If I took it off it would still be obvious I am married. The light color of the skin under the ring and the indentation it has left with years of wearing it.

[ctdonath2]

Going on 9 years. Never took it off for more than a few minutes. Leaving it off is unthinkable.

Wear another optional ring on other hand, and a watch. That’s all the jewelry I can manage.

[fortheDeclaration]

I don’t wear a weddding ring because I hate rings.

[al_c]

Dad never wore his. He was an electrical engineer ... messing with electricity day in and day out was one reason. He also didn’t like wearing jewelry. He was faithful regardless.

[justice14]

I don’t understand the posts on here lamenting people for not wearing a ring. A ring is a symbol. That is all. Your heart and mindset of marriage are far more important.

I wear my ring. I do work at a Tech Center and when I go onto the plant floor, I take it off per regulations. I also remove it when I play pickup basketball. Other than that, I wear it all the time.

Again, it’s the heart and mindset that keep a marriage. Not an object on your finger.

[strider44]

I’m on my 4th ring (same wife!). Lost my first one swimming out into a lake to rescue my disoriented puppy. She was swimming in circles and wouldn’t come back to shore. It was early April in Massachusetts and the water was freezing. My fingers shrunk from the cold and my ring slipped off as I reached for her collar. Way too deep water to find it later.

Second ring was lost in Iraq. I’m a UH-60 pilot and during pre-flight I take my ring off so my fingers don’t catch on anything up on the engine deck. I would put the ring on my dog tag chain. Sometimes when I put my body armor on my dog tag chain would break. I wouldn’t know this until hours later when I took it off. So ring number 2 is in the desert somewhere.

lost ring number 3 while giving my son a bath at my parents house. It fell off the vanity and down a heating vent. Never found it.

Now I have 3 sons and I still take my 4th ring off when I give them baths. haven’t lost it yet. My wife stopped buying me new rings after number 2. So it’s a very inexpensive white gold band.

She does get upset if I forget to put it back sometimes. She knows to look for my dog tags and will usually find it there.

[absolootezer0]

i’m a bartender. when I was married i wore my ring all the time, but it never stopped women from from trying to pick me up.

i’d stand there, literally tapping my ring on the bar in front of them, and most either didn’t notice or didn’t care. they’d keep right on trying.

whether or not you wear a ring doesn’t always matter.

[blueunicorn6]

What is “the symbolism in a ring”?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I agree with the shrink, the only reason not to wear one is to be able to claim you’re single. The only reason you would want to do that is to cheat on your wife.

Projecting your own proclivities onto others, I see.

I have NEVER been able to wear jewelry of any kind, long before I ever got married; rings, watches, whatever. They drive me crazy.

I don't wear a wedding ring. Hasn't affected my behavior in the slightest.

[liberalh8ter]

My husband and I both wear our rings everyday. We would never think of ditching them because to us, they are a symbol of our union and a remembrance of the day we put them on each others fingers. I do believe when a married person doesn't wear it (outside of a physical reason for not wearing it) it is to portray themselves as single.

[VMI70]

Interesting topic...

My grandfather, father, and father-in-law never had a wedding ring, nor do I. All were married to their respective wives for over 50 years. My wife & I have 17 more to go to reach that milestone.

Before I got married, I had a conversation with my mother on this subject, and she told me that the practice of husbands wearing a wedding ring was a relatively recent (early 20th century) phenomena. I gathered from her that it was viewed and developed as “trendy” thing.

[Excellence]

My mechanic has his wife's name tattooed on his wedding ring finger. I've also seen “bands” tattooed onto the finger. Now that is dedication!

[US Navy Vet]

I have a wadding ring rarely wear it. I NEVER go to places where women of “Loose” repute hang out(Bars, Nighrclubs etc). I LOVE Being married and could NEVER even IMAGINE being with ANY other women besides my wife(of 25+ years)!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Aside from people who take theirs off for safety (and then put them back on) people who say "it is just a symbol" have the same mind set as people who say a marriage certificate is "just a piece of paper", a flag is "just a piece of cloth" or a cross is "just some wood".

A symbol is a nonverbal expression of a principle. Devalue the symbol as meaningless and over time you devalue the principle. Enough people devalue the symbol and soon the principle loses all meaning.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Wedding rings for men are a recent (last 75 years) innovation that was largely driven by jewelry industry marketing. In the 1920s, less than 15% of weddings were double ring ceremonies. After WW2, it was 80%.

[allmendream]

Sorry, but a ring hardly serves as an “off limits” sign.

I NEVER got so much female attention as when I was wearing a wedding band.

Women are notorious mate ‘poachers’. Only 60% of single women wanted to go out with a handsome man they were told was emotionally compatible when told he was single. 90% of single women wanted to go out with a handsome man they were told was emotionally compatible when told he was in a relationship.

The best way to let single women know you are both married AND unavailable is to speak to them of your wife...

They flirt and compliment your hair, you say “My wife likes my hair like that also!” with an earnest grin!

[Cloverfarm]

DH and I had to take our rings off due to factory work.

One of the places he’d talk about his lovely wife was in the break room at meal times when he had delicious left-overs ;-)

I am now able to wear rings and got a cheapy stainless steel one for work. I seem to have fewer “stalkers” now. They were probably more interested in my NRA coffee mug ;-)and I mis-read the situation.

[Melas]

Malone is an idiot. I rarely wear my wedding ring, and never for any of the reasons he has given. Contrary to Malone’s asinine theories, I usually wear my ring when I dress up to go out. I never wear it cycling, biking, working with tools, cleaning the car, etc.

[trisham]

Psychiatrist Gary Malone says that when a man decides not to wear his ring, it’s usually because he wants to “present himself as not married.”

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Correct.