Apart from a year when I worked in a foundry, where jewelry was to say the least unwise, My wedding ring has been off only momentarily for 23 years and 12 days now. I very seldom actually think about it, and would consider it just a symbolic, replaceable scrap of metal. But, having said that, if I was leaning over a bridge railing and noticed it dropping off, I might very well jump after it before I had time to reconsider.