Not too long ago someone remarked
on the fact that my hubby doesn’t wear his wedding ring and my reaction was
just to shrug my shoulders with a somewhat so what reaction…
I remember my mom telling me that
the day my dad and her got married was the first and last time my dad wore his
wedding ring- he is an engineer and works often with heavy machinery etc and it
just isn’t practical for him to wear a ring especially when it could result in
the loss of a finger should it get caught on something…
So that brings me to my husband
and I… now when I got married the first time it was very important to me, both
marriage in general the certificate the ceremony etc as well as the rings
however after my divorce I realised (ironic don’t you think) that none of it
really matters … yes it matters that you are making a commitment to your
partner but whether you are married on paper or not that commitment should
stand and no ring or marriage officiate is going to change that- if a person is
going to cheat that ring isn’t going to change that, if that person is abusive
that ring is not going to change that….
So basically after my divorce I
really didn’t plan on getting married again and my husband wasn’t really fazed
or said he wasn’t fazed either way; he was happy with my choice either way, and
then as our relationship went on I realised that marriage was important to him
and that I loved him very much and that I wanted to marry him, that aside there
are also many legalities involved in marriage and especially when you have
children and property etc so we decided together that we wanted to and that was
that, we planned our wedding in 5 weeks, we arranged a simple small ceremony
and Handfasting TOGETHER, it was so completely different to my first wedding
and meant so much more.
At the time I couldn’t find a
ring I wanted and we couldn’t really afford it anyway so I just ordered a
cheapo ring out of the honey catalogue and so did my hubby… it really didn’t matter
to us it was just a ring we were married whether we wore it or not.
Several months later I came
across a ring I wanted, by this time my other ring had tarnished and I hardly
wore it and my hubby had stopped wearing his because it interfered with his
ability to properly service the cameras etc that he is involved with(I have
never and will never ask him to wear it or force him to wear it and the same
from his side).
The ring I chose is silver and
completely unconventional as far as wedding rings are concerned but I loved it
so we got it, fast forward to today and I no longer wear it because it is now
too big for me and I have almost lost it several times, I now wear my engagement
ring and hubby still doesn’t wear a ring.
Anyway I don’t know why this
person thought it was in any way helpful or any of their business to remark on
this but they did so I thought I would write this piece, at the end of the day
if you rely on a ring and a piece of paper to proof that your marriage is worth
something then I think you need to rethink what you base your marriage on in
the first place.
Marriage is a beautiful thing and
so is making the commitment on paper but at the end of the day not wearing a
ring or not walking down the aisle doesn’t make your relationship worth
anything less than someone who is legally married, if the communication and
love between you and your partner is solid it really doesn’t matter what anyone
else thinks….
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