I never took my ring off because a ring says I'm married, and I have been married non-stop for many years now to the same woman. I don't think I need to wear it, but I chose to when we got married so the only time I would take it off I think would be if my wife divorced me and I wasn't married to her anymore. I also think it does mean something to her that I wear so I would do it no matter what just because of that.
Even if they say they don't want us at different times, wives need their husbands to be as constant as posssible. We think super-logically, and to us it doesn't really matter. But to them it does. And they matter to us.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. -- Inigo Montoya, 'The Princess Bride'
