To stop wearing my wedding ring?

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I recently got some cleaning fluid under my wedding ring resulting in the skin going all sore and flakey. I took my wedding and engagement rings off so the skin could heal.

After a week of not wearing my rings I quite like the freedom of not wearing them. Don't have to take them of to put on hand cream / for cleaning etc.

Some friends and work colleagues have noticed the lack of rings and seem surprised that I don't want to wear them anymore. DH not particularly bothered and jokes that I`m on the pull.

Anyone else not bothered about wearing their wedding ring?

It's up to you! I haven't take my wedding ring off since we got married 6 years ago, but that doesn't mean that you can't!

I rarely wear mine since having DD I think my fingers swelled and didn't go back and I am fatter no one comments, don't think dh likes it but he understands they're just uncomfortable.

I wore mine for three years then got contact dermatitis so stopped. DH not bothered, though did refuse to buy me an eternity ring when DS came along. Can't blame him really.

I'm allergic to commitment (tish-boom!)

DH and I don't as a rule wear our wedding rings, even though we have them. This is partly due to the jobs we do, but it's also because we don't need rings to know what we feel about each other.

Just because we don't have a constant visual symbol to others, it doesn't make us any less married or any less "in love" or commited to each other.

My original wedding ring is the only but of jewellery I have ever owned tht brought me out in a rash. It wasn't cheap either!

DH bought me a white gold one one Christmas that is rhodium plated I think and it's fine, but for several years I didn't really wear one except special occasions cos of the rash.

It's not about the jewellery for me! Don't stress!

I have worn mine since the day we were married, 23 years ago, apart for 10 days when it had to be made a little bit bigger because my fingers swelled I had got fatter. Only take my engagement and eternity rings off when I make pastry - scared of losing them otherwise.

I am not allowed to wear rings for work

I spend a large proportion of my week at work, so sometimes I forget to put them back on

meh

I quite often forget to put mine on.

I don't even know where mine is anymore, and I doubt it would still fit me. We bought it because we had to have a ring for the actual wedding ceremony, but I barely wore it. That said, I do have an initial tattooed on my left hand ring finger, that's been there about 3 years or so now, and I usually just say that's my wedding "ring". It's not an actual right round ring tattoo as they don't tend to "take" or heal very well round the back, if it had been feasible to have one right round I would have considered it when I was deciding what to get. Loads of husband's never have a wedding ring at all, and nobody ever seems to think anything of it at all, but when a woman takes hers off everyone seems to have an opinion...

arhhhhhh apostrophe disaster

I never take mine off. Neither does DH as far as I know. But I think you should do whatever is most comfortable for you.

I wear my wedding band but have stopped wearing my engagement ring. I like what the band symbolises.

Don't think dh would be bothered. He doesn't take his off.

My dh has never worn his so if I decided to stop wearing it he couldn't really say anything. I've removed mine at times when constant handwashing when mine were in nappies wrecked my hands but now without them I feel naked.

I have stopped wearing my wedding ring and it makes me feel .
my wedding ring has always been a big deal for me and i wore it with pride because DH picked me. (gushy i know)

but last november he did something completely out of character, and it has casued me to take off the ring, originally becuase my hand swelled, but now because i cant bear the thought of putting it back on.

we only ever had three rules, no cheating, no lying, and if he hits me - i'm gone. well, i didnt leave him, but my faith in him has been shaken at its very foundations. if he could do that, then he ISNT the bloke i thought he was.... but we have been together for 20 years, and i thought i knew him.

Rarely wear ours, isn't compulsory except in tabloid-celeb-world!

I don't wear mine unless I fancy it. I find them uncomfortable if I wear them too long. DH lost his ages ago & we've yet to replace it but wouldn't wear it daily anyway.

You don't need a rings to be married. Neither of my parents ever wear theirs & they've been together 40 years

Married ten years this year, and I rarely wear mine. I occasionally wear it if we are going out and I put jewellery on, but the rest of the time it is locked in the safe as I know I would end up losing it by taking it off somewhere in the house and forgetting where I put it.. as I managed to do with a gold and diamond bracelet that my husband bought me. :(

I love wearing mine!! Am obsessed with staring at my beautiful engagement ring & the wedding ring is 'a symbol of his love to me', given on the most important day of our lives

Me and DH both lost our wedding rings with a few weeks of getting married! Haven't replacesd them and don't mind not having wedding rings on show.

EB...how long have you been married ?

a week ?

Both of us wear our engagement and wedding rings all the time apart from when doing something messy. We wear them because we like to but we wouldnt expect everyone to do the same. Only if u want to and feel the need to wear it.

MateyMooo

DH and I haven't taken ours off for nearly 25 years, apart for needing to very occasionally. That is what is right for us, you should do whatever you feel is right for you.

Do whatever you want. I don't wear mine all the time, though it does mean I constantly put it down and think I've lost it.

I doubt anyone is going to gasp and ask if you're divorcing simply based on an absent ring, or anything like that.