Is this something new? On my kids soccer team, there are four sets of parents who do not wear wedding rings, ever, on either of them. I know they are married. I’m wondering if it some religious thing as they all seem to be highly Christian. Maybe a bride of Christ thing?
I have never encountered this before the last few years (I know of some people who don’t wear rings do to their jobs and such, but never both parents.)
As a single guy, this can cause great confusion, and danger.
I take my ring off quite often. Usually as I head out to the garage to work on the cars or use the lathe. It’s why I still have all my fingers. 
I stopped wearing mine after the third or fourth time I got my finger caught on a tractor part or got gravel particles caught underneath. I also work with machine tools and the like. Not a good idea to wear a ring in those cases.
Been married 39 years too. 
I knew a woman who stopped wearing hers because she’d gotten to plump to fit into it.
OK, but it both parts of the couple are unlikely to encounter lathes and tractors while standing on the sidelines at a kids soccer game.
I do not wear rings, watches or jewelry. I never liked the feel.
Do either of them have any other rings on?
I don’t think so, but they do wear other jewelery (cross pendant).
I don’t wear a ring because I don’t like the way it feels. We still did the ‘ring thing’ at the ceremony, but I took it off at the end of the day and it’s never been back on.
I remember back when I got married, I was living in the US, but married an American in the States, and wedding rings were no where near as common for men in the UK as they seemed to be in the US. This was back in 1994. I know my father never wore a wedding ring from his marriage to my mother, and they married in 1964, I think.
My mother doesn’t wear a wedding ring for two reasons:
Firstly, she has contact metal allergies. Gold and platinum (the most popular wedding ring metals) cause her (and me) to break out in a really, really heinous and deeply uncomfortable rash that persists for a good 2 - 4 weeks after the offending metal has been removed from contact with the skin.* When she got married to my father (some 35 years ago this fall), wedding rings were basically only available in gold or platinum. After so many years, she’s just not in the habit of wearing one.
Secondly, because rings do not stay on her fingers. She has small knuckles, so her fingers are essentially a narrow cone - a ring that fits the base of her finger (unless it’s really uncomfortably tight) just slips right off the finger. After the hundredth time her wedding ring slid off her finger and she had to attempt to retreive it from wherever it went to (a sink of soapy water, under the refrigerator, some random spot in the front lawn, the bottom of the bathtub she was taking a bath in, into a jar of jam she was making, etc.), she gave it up as a bad job. She has several wedding rings - they just live on a peg next to the kitchen sink
My dad sometimes wears his wedding ring. If he’s not planning to work with power tools or go out fishing in his boat or go work on his boat. Since he’s a retired high school shop teacher who builds houses for people and fishes for hobbies, he’s not wearing it more than he is.
*I had trouble with this myself. I ultimately located a sterling silver wedding band, but sweet Jesus it was a pain in the ass to find a wedding ring (or engagement ring) that didn’t cause me to break out in a terrible rash. My husband are probably going to give each other tungsten bands for one of our major anniversaries because it’s harder than the silver (which is looking kind of battered after only 4 years) and probably won’t make me miserable every day.
Why do the ring ceremony at all then? Honest question.
No, but they get taken off to do the dishes, work in the yard, etc. and people sometimes forget to put them back on.
The ring is the smallest part of the whole life-partner thing, and lots of people have lots of ways at looking at it. About the only way you can tell you’re gonna die or not is when the husband walks in on you and her and shoots…or applauds.
Or you know, she says she’s married.
Similarly, my co-worker never wears her wedding ring because she lost weight and keeps losing the thing down the drain, under the fridge, in the filing cabinet, in her car…
My girlfriend and I got cute engagement ring things (cheap and goofy) but the rings pissed both of us off too much because of our activity levels. Either they weren’t safe to wear for a particular sport or home renos (hellooooooo de-gloving injury waiting to happen!), or they would just get all slimey from sweat when you’re running. Or you’d take it off and forget it somewhere, or what you were doing was too dirty to wear a ring (eg/ kneading dough). Bah! Don’t want to wear a ring.
I break out from mine, so I’ll wear it intermittently. Right now, no ring and a rash. But I will be able to wear it for weeks at a time.
1.) When my folks were still married, Dad stopped wearing a ring after his was stolen. (Forgot it on a sink at work after washing his hands, was gone when he went back, no one ever returned it.)
2.) On the subject of, shall we say, “outgrowing” your wedding ring… My maternal grandmother’s wedding ring was inscribed inside the band with “I pledge to thee my fidelity.” As she got older and put on weight, she had the ring stretched, which erased the “-ity” from the last word. There is now an ongoing family joke she has custody of Grandpa’s fiddle.
I take mine off every night, and depending what’s going on that day, I may not put it on. Any kind of manual labor - yard work, going to the gym, a bike ride, even golf and I won’t wear it.
Some days I just plain forget to put it on.
Mu husband told me before we got married that he doesn’t like the feel of a ring on, and that he would be likey not to wear it. I asked him to let me buy one anyway. He wore it for about a week.
I take mine off frequently because it interferes with tools I use at work - either it’s uncomfortably in the way or I’m afraid it will get scratched up. I take it off at home when working with certain art materials or cleaning solutions.
I often leave it on my dressing table or on the parking spot I made for it at work. When I’m out and about and not wearing it I do get that “Hey somehting’s missing” feeling.
My grandfather never wore his because he was a deliverary man for a dairy company. Mostly he delivered those big tubs of ice cream to parlors, and didn’t want to catch it in the metal rims.
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