Laura,
This is a great question. i will be interested in seeing the responses to this one.
Today is only my 5 month mark... I wear my ring on my finger, and Bob's wedding ring on a chain around my neck.

Some friends have told me they switch the ring to their right hand.

Wishing you a good day! Hugs, Linda

I fell shortly after my husband passed. Caught my self with my hands and they turned black and blue and swelled so I had to wear them on a chain for awhile. Then I received a lovely pin from Widowsring who used to be on here and that held them. I now have a shadow box hanging on my wall with my wedding rings, my class ring, my mothers wedding ring and my husbands dog tags prominently displayed. The background they are attached to says "A dream is a wish a heart makes..Cherish yesterday
Live today
Dream tomorrow
I stopped wearing them at about 2 years! I think today, tomorrow or never would be all correct answers. Whatever makes it right for you. I wanted mine displayed where I could see them everyday as it brought me comfort. Sorry if I shared too much! Hugs!!!

Its been 4 months for me but I had not been able to wear my wedding ring due to it irrating my finger for some time. I only wore it when out. I had thought about resizing my husbands but its awful big compared to my finger.
I was thinking about getting a me ring, mothers ring or something else to wear.

I am at about 14 months since my husband passed away. I am still wearing my wedding ring, however at about the one year mark I decided to have it re-sized and am now wearing it on my right hand. I love my ring (it was a ring my husband and I designed) and what it represents (the life I had with my husband) and I personally saw no reason for me to take it off and put it away. Deb

I had our bands soldered together and about 5 mo after, it made me so sad to see it on my left hand and know he was no longer here with me that I switched to my right hand...........the ring is wide and I switch hands when I get water under it.....................
hugs
L

I lost a considerable amount of weight during my wife's illness and in the months following her death. I stopped wearing my wedding band after about six months...mainly because I was afraid I'd lose it. It fell off my finger a few times before I put it away with my wife's rings. Had my ring not become too big for me, I would have eventually moved it to my right hand.

Now I am new to this but could never consider taking my wedding set off. I wear his ring around my neck along with 2 other things. I do know my MIL took hers off rather early (within a couple months) and I was creeped out by that! I have never heard of a "typical time frame"...

~Christi

laurabp,

After a little over a year, I removed my rings and had a lovely necklace/pendant designed which includes my engagement ring, wedding band, and his wedding band. I wear it around my neck on many occasions but not all the time. I wanted to keep the three rings together in the hope that generations of our family will enjoy the heirloom, and in some way remember us as part of their lineage.

Like Lori (lkmeb), I too came to the point where it saddened me to continue wearing them on my left hand, so I decided on the necklace. Just as we all grieve differently, we all have differing opinions on this subject. It's interesting to see the individual perceptions. Blessings. TJ

My husband siedin August and I wear my rings as well as his. I have never given thought to taking them off. I see nothing to prove by this and often wonder why there seems to be this need to remove a symbol of love betewwn husband and wife. I have nothing to prove to the world and I do not feel the need to advertise that I am single. I would feel incompleter without wearing my rings.

Maggie

I am at six months and the ring still gives me comfort so it stays on for now. I was cleaning the sink out about a week ago and took my ring off and left it on the counter, then I went to work. All day I keep noticing I didnt have my ring on and it bothered me, I never realized how many time during the course of a day I just touched it for comfort. One day I will take it off and do something else with it but I am not sure when that day will be.

I have a small gold/quartz pendant that I bought her about 5 years ago, a little bear (her nickname). I put that on my gold chain the day she passed and have not taken it off since. It is quite heavy for a small pendant and the weight against my chest feels good.

-Pete-

To Pete,

i know what you mean about feeling the weight of the pendant, and in my case Bob's wedding band.

It feels good know it is there and it's a connection to our loved ones. I also were a pendant. I ordered 2 ( a cross, and a heart) that the mortuary added some of Bob's ashes into. I love to wear one of those in addition to his band. I feel that I still have him with me in some tiny way.
I know that is probably silly, but it really blesses me a lot!!
Linda

I wore my wedding band for the first 13 months, then bought a beautiful gold chain and wore my ring on it with a cross for a few months. I then took both my wedding band and engagement ring and put in in the music box that my husband gave me which I keep on the headboard of my bed.
hugs..
-Diana

I wore my on my left hand for a year but after a few months into my second year I finally felt comfortable enough moving it to my right hand. I usually wear my plain band but on more special times I also wear my diamond wedding ring plus the gold band. That makes me happy now. It sounds like it took beyond a year for most of us to like the right hand.

At four months I wear both my wedding band and his. I have removed my engagement ring - that felt like a promise that was no longer here... I think it is a personal decision that no one help with - you will know when the time is right if ever to remove your rings or wear them.

I'm at 5 months and have no intention of ever taking off my wedding or engagement rings. I will always be married to my sweetie in my heart. But, as the others have said, do what feels right for you.
Since you are considering it now after two years, you must be almost ready. So go with your feelings.
Hugs