Originally Posted by Cynthetiq

I was always hard pressed to feel like I needed to have some sort of crutch, even up into my dating 20s where I wore a simple wedding ring to give myself and out. At first it was a gift from grandma that I picked out myself, it looked just enough like one but not one. When I got older I made friends with a woman who got divorced and was tossing her ring out so I took that and it became a "friend's memory" once she died a year or two later.

But I always had it as a crutch to easily excuse and demure myself out of uncomfortable situations where I wasn't interested in the girl.