<\/p>\n
My dad never wore his wedding ring, and it always hurt my mom. She noticed it early on, especially when she saw other men proudly wearing theirs. Whenever she asked, he brushed it off.<\/p>\n
\u201cI lost it after the wedding. No point replacing it.\u201d<\/p>\n
They were married for over thirty years\u2014steady, loving, imperfect. And all that time, his hand stayed bare.<\/p>\n
After he passed away, my mom found a small box in his bedside drawer. Inside was his wedding ring, perfectly kept, along with a note.<\/p>\n
\u201cI never wore it because I was afraid of losing it again,\u201d it read.<\/p>\n
He wrote about a night early in their marriage when my mom nearly died in the hospital. Sitting alone, terrified, he had taken the ring off, believing he didn\u2019t deserve to wear it if he lost her. She survived\u2014but the fear never left him.<\/p>\n
He kept the ring safe, not out of indifference, but love.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t need the ring to know I was yours,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI carried you with me every day.\u201d<\/p>\n
That night, my mom put the ring on a chain and wore it around her neck.<\/p>\n
Love isn\u2019t always visible.
\nSometimes it\u2019s quiet.
\nSometimes it\u2019s fear.
\nSometimes it\u2019s a ring kept safe for thirty years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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