Thanks for sharing your story here - it does giv3e one a bit of hope. My h is nothing like yours, i'd like to compare and find something similar and feel some optimism.
It's nice to read & hear - such positive stuff. i've read waay back, and i've skipped to the end here - so if this is a dopey question forgive my ignorance of si tch.
the ring - why not just get a new one symbolic of this rebirth of r - and put that old one in a little box somewhere - just a hurtful little memory you can set aside now?
if i felt so happy and hopeful- maybe i wouldn't want the reminder either. (it is from a painful time & experience) I think it's understandable. It's just a little piece of jewelry- maybe just always going to "remind" you of pain rather than of the good aspect of strength of bond and so on.
can't ya just do that- look at the new one and feel happy, let that old junk slide away to oblivion?
just askin
xxo and i'm so happy for you that things are so better -