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Single? Divorced? There's a Ring for That

New trend reminds us we can buy our own jewelry

By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff

Posted May 30, 2010 10:23 AM CDT

(Newser) – Not engaged, but just dying for an oh-so-special ring to call your own? Great news: Thanks to today’s brilliant jewelry marketers, there’s a ring for every relationship status you’d like to broadcast to the world, be it “available and happy” or “divorced, available, and happy.” Websites like MySingleRing.com offer you a silver band that promises to deliver the message, “I am an intelligent, empowered individual”…who also just so happens to be single and looking.

The trend goes even further, reports the New York Times, with more divorced people starting to turn their wedding bands into “divorce rings” (picture a severed band with a stitched-together gap). If you just can’t bear the sight of your wedding band, no problem: D Jewelry Company will sell you a brand-new divorce ring. Want to go one step further? Consider the Wedding Ring Coffin.

You don't have to get married to get your own special ring.
You don't have to get married to get your own special ring.   (?Idhren)
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Usually men buy you diamonds, and I was like, ‘Why can’t I just buy my own diamond?’ So the ring was liberating for me, because I don’t need others to tell me that I’m beautiful, I’m sexy, I’m intelligent, I’m fabulous just as I am.
- Della Beaver

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Linda Sherman
May 30, 2010 9:48 PM CDT
This article did not include the ring that created the market for all of these rings - Singelringen. I explain why here: http://asklindasherman.com/sin...
inky
May 28, 2010 7:00 AM CDT
Wear your grandmother's jewelry, and empower HER. I'm just saying.
Newt
May 27, 2010 11:07 PM CDT
"Usually men buy you diamonds, and I was like, ‘Why can’t I just buy my own diamond?’ So the ring was liberating for me, because I don’t need others to tell me that I’m beautiful, I’m sexy, I’m intelligent, I’m fabulous just as I am"

So she needs diamonds to feel beautiful, sexy, and intelligent?
What an empowered woman XD
 

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