{"id":65,"date":"2026-07-07T23:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anatolia.se\/?p=65"},"modified":"2026-07-07T23:54:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:54:32","slug":"i-wear-it-on-my-middle-finger-the-rise-of-the-defiant-divorce-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anatolia.se\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/i-wear-it-on-my-middle-finger-the-rise-of-the-defiant-divorce-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I wear it on my middle finger’: The rise of the defiant divorce ring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Shimmering on Deb Marino’s finger are diamonds set in an eye-catching gold ring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Of course it’s a middle finger ring, because, why not?” the Florida-based blogger says on her Tiktok feed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting rid of her engagement ring would have suggested a regret the 34-year-old doesn’t feel – after all, her marriage brought her daughter. Even just not wearing it would have felt like a waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I didn’t want it locked away in a box,” she says. “Diamonds are precious.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plus she does sometimes feel like sticking one finger up after the break-up of her marriage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deb is part of a rising trend promoted by jewellers around the world of women marking a new chapter in their life with a new statement piece: the divorce ring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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London jeweller Lylie has found there is growing interest in turning engagement rings into new items<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Deb had the diamond from her engagement ring set at one end of an open circle and added a new sapphire to represent her daughter to the other end. It cost $3,000 (\u00a32,245).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a sizeable sum to part with when divorces can beexpensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ring resale values tend to be only around 30% of the original price so for many the trend of giving their old jewellery a new life feels abetter investment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Deb’s middle finger statement fits right in with what the fashion pages are calling this year’s “hot divorcee summer” – a celebration of liberated glamour and a “don’t care energy”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Divorce rings can also be a way of marking a kind of financial liberation, says Kate Daly, co-founder of Amicable, a UK company offering mediated divorce services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Your whole life gets thrown up in the air,” she says. “Your finances are under extreme pressure.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If at that point a woman decides to buy a new ring it’s a sign that she is making her own financial decisions and “not needing to ask permission from anyone,” says Daly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It’s very easy to trivialise, but maybe that’s the first big spending decision you’ve made in a very long time, and certainly perhaps the biggest one you’ve made solo for a long time.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shimmering on Deb Marino’s finger are diamonds set in an eye-catching gold ring. “Of course it’s a middle finger ring, because, why not?” the Florida-based blogger says on her Tiktok feed. Getting rid of her engagement ring would have suggested a regret the 34-year-old doesn’t feel – after all, her marriage brought her daughter. Even…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatolia.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatolia.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatolia.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatolia.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatolia.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anatolia.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/anatolia.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatolia.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatolia.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatolia.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatolia.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}