A Magazine article on when to take off a wedding ring after a marriage fails generated a large response from readers.
It came after Katie Holmes was photographed in New York without her wedding ring, having filed for divorce from Tom Cruise.
The feature asked when it was appropriate to remove the band, and explored the symbolism of doing so.
Here, readers share their stories about the dilemma of what
to do with a symbol of marriage once the relationship has broken down:
Vinny, Bournemouth
When I was married in 2000, after the ceremony my wife and I
took photos of our hands and wedding rings at Bournemouth pier. Ten
years later the marriage failed.
The day before she left to start a new life in Ireland, I
took her back to the same pier. We walked to the end and I took both
rings out of my pocket.
I said that it was apt to end it all where it began, and we
should throw each others rings into the sea as a symbol of the end of
our marriage. We did just that - but it was really surprising just how
difficult it was to bring ourselves to cast them into the waves.
Anonymous, Belfast
The press focused on Holmes's discarded wedding band
My ex-husband and I swapped our platinum rings pretty much
immediately on separation, as we had always believed we had bought them
for each other and so we got back the one for which we paid. I wore his
on my middle finger for..
