September 28, 2016
The Perfect Symbol

Dr. Laura:

I believe that wedding rings are an important symbol, and I feel naked without mine on.  My wife and I were both widowed, having lost very significant people in our lives.  After a year and a half of dating and meeting each other's families, grown kids and grandkids, we decided to get married. 

This was an important step for me, as I had been with my first wife for 40 years, so I worked with a machinist (not a jeweler) to make my ring a perfect symbol.  We took three precious metal wires to symbolize her family, my family, and us as a couple.  We forged them into a single beautiful metal, but with each of the colors still distinct and intact.  I then had this precious piece embedded into a ring of impervious titanium to symbolize my new role - to protect all of these precious entities from harm.

Four years in, our families are totally intertwined; you would not know they had not been family for all of our lives.  I am, indeed, a lucky man.

Peter


Posted by Staff at 10:59 AM