I took mine off after I had confronted my husband of 3 months about his cheating and he refused to stop. That morning, he was going to a local church with the woman he was having an affair with, and I tried to get him to take my rings with him to the church to help him remember what he was giving up. He wouldn't take them. A week later I told him to leave, and the rings went back to their gift boxes for about a year. In the end, I sold them to a friend and used the money to go to the beach for a weekend. I have no idea what he did with his ring.