When my mom was sick, while having different things done to her, she would hold my hand. That was when I first started to hate my wedding band. Jack and I had picked our bands out of a guys garage in Miami, actually he was a retired jeweler who still had alittle inventory to move. We got great deals on 2 bands, Jack's was convex and mine was concave. I figured it was neat that mine fit in his, even though they didn't match.

Well cut to years later and i've repeatedly had cuts on my hands from the ring, but it wasn't until Mom was sick, and said to me - why do you keep waring a ring that causes pain - and that made me want a new ring.

I've tried different rings over time, but nothing really felt right so i'd end up back with the concave one. So I recently just started going with out - but this bugged me too. Well today I went to Macy's 50% off jewelry sale and bought my self a beautiful solid gold band. nothing fancy, but not painful either. and so now I feel married again (ok not really - a ring doesn't make the marriage - but it sure helps).