Divorced or soon will be divorced ....

Divorced or soon will be divorced what would you do?

  • Keep the ring! It’s yours!

    Votes: 48 72.7%

  • Sell it! Bad luck.

    Votes: 18 27.3%
  • Total voters
    66

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#46
OutWest said:
If the ring was bought by your daughter's father, I'd remove the stone, have it made into a simple, classic solitaire (prong-set or dbty), and give it to her for a significant event--18th birthday, high school graduation, college or grad school graduation. Post-divorce, what it's become is essentially a symbol that you loved each other and made something together far more beautiful than diamonds (her!) And THEN I'd go buy yourself something amazing to celebrate this next phase of your life!
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good idea! maybe think of it as a memory of the good times together. I think the daughter deserves to feel that she was born out of love despite the marriage not working.
 
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#48
RadiantPassing said:
I have the same dilemma now with my ering. My husband and I are getting divorced after less than one year of marriage. My husband was a grad student with little money at the time that he bought the ering, so the ring wouldn't return me much money if I tried to sell it. It probably wouldn't be worth the hassle.

The center stone is a lab made alexandrite for my birthday month. I figure it can be worn just as a right hand ring. But each time I take it out of the box and look at it, it just makes me feel very sad. :sad: We didn't have any children, so I don't have anyone to leave it to. Neither my sister nor girlfriends would accept it from me if I tried to give it to them.

I hate the idea of throwing it away in the trash...
I guess it'll just sit at the bottom of my jewelry box forever. :sad:
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Oh I’m so sorry. Maybe you are not ready. Divorce is NOT easy. Kids or no kids. I’m sorry if my thread came across as a walk in the park bc it’s not. Especially if you coparent like we do. Even if you are ready to move on there is still a grieving process. It’s still sad that the life you once had is no more. For me, I loved being married but I loved ME and my sanity more. GL with everything.
 
#49
OutWest said:
If the ring was bought by your daughter's father, I'd remove the stone, have it made into a simple, classic solitaire (prong-set or dbty), and give it to her for a significant event--18th birthday, high school graduation, college or grad school graduation. Post-divorce, what it's become is essentially a symbol that you loved each other and made something together far more beautiful than diamonds (her!) And THEN I'd go buy yourself something amazing to celebrate this next phase of your life!
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Love this! Yes to all of it.
 
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#50
meazar said:
I had mine made into a necklace. But after I remarried, my DH commented every time I started to wear it that "I guess I don't buy you enough jewelry... you're wearing that"! So last week, after 13 years, off to auction it went! Successfully! And now I will buy myself something that doesn't have ties to my first marriage. Just my experience...
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What auction service did you use?
 
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