A mother reflects on the significance of wearing her wedding band after divorce and the conversations she has with her daughters about love and relationships.
Recently, when I was putting my kids to bed, my younger daughter asked me why I still wear my wedding band on a chain around my neck. I replied, pulling our cat, Harry, all 16 pounds of him, up on the bed and laying her head on his belly. My younger daughter has my features and her father’s freckles. Like both of us, she is blunt and tough but tender. 'It’s not a best-and-worst kind of thing.' I tucked the ring, a tiny gold circle, behind my T-shirt. 'Meeting Daddy changed everything.
' 'You love him, though — right?' My older daughter, her sister, put her graphic novel down then. She is in middle school, and these are the conversations that catch her attention. High drama, high stakes. Love and hate, good and bad, victim and villain. I find myself at this place often with my daughters. Both wanting to be honest and wanting to deflect
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