I'm just wondering, who's the genius who came up with the whole idea of Divorce Rings anyhow?

Well, it's actually a funny story. The person who invented the Divorce Ring (it's actually patented!) is a guy named Harold Thompson, and he did this back in 2001. It was a difficult time back then for this guy who just got divorced from his second wife and to make things even worse he also got laid off from work at exactly the same time. He started working at Wal-Mart to make ends meet when a former co-worker of his, Mary Burden dropped by after being laid off too from the same company. Anyway, the two got to talking and quickly the conversation shifted towards Harold's divorce. It was then that Mary pointed out that: "There are rings for high school football, anniversaries, rings to show you're single or married. But there are no rings for divorce". It was at that moment that Harold quickly thought of a ring design in his head. He claims that within a minute he had already had a clear vision of how the ring should look like. Sure enough, when he finished work that evening he went on to draw what would soon become the Divorce Ring: a thick gold band with a break in the center featuring three bands of white gold on either side. These three bands are there to represent the year you met your ex, the year you got married and the year you got divorced, respectively. Harold cleverly points out that people tend to matter-of-factly display their marital status and he argues it shouldn’t be any different for divorced couples either. According to Harold the Divorce Ring is not meant to promote divorce, but rather to acknowledge it. And there you have it – the story behind the century's newest jewelry creation.

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