I've had a similar experience and it's such a horrible feeling. My husband was stationed in Japan two years ago and I lost my wedding ring during a visit. It's a 13 hour flight to Japan from New Jersey. Then I had a two hour layover for the second two hour flight to the island where he was stationed. I was beyond exhausted by the time I arrived in Fukuoka and we still needed to take a two hour train ride to the southern part of the island. We decided to spend the night in a hotel. I had taken my ring off to put it on the counter but it fell behind the dresser. I couldn't move another inch. I figured I would just get up in the morning and retrieve it. That didn't happen. As a matter of fact, I didn't remember anything about it until we were on the train about halfway to our destination. He called the hotel but they claimed that they did not find a ring in our room. I was very upset and was worried that my husband would be angry with me for losing it. That wasn't the case at all. I believe he said something along the lines of "Things like this happen and it can't be helped." We eventually bought a replacement.

Now that I think about it, my husband lost his original ring too. When he was out to sea, he always slept with his wedding ring on. Someone actually stole it right off of his finger as he slept. There was no way for him to find the ring or the person who stole it. I still remember how heartbroken he sounded when he called. Luckily, when he finally came home we went back to the jeweler who sold us the original and they had the exact same one for sale. Score.

So you are not alone. We both lost our rings after one year of marriage.

There's something to be said for the tattoo wedding ring. You can't lose it (short of losing your damned finger, of course). And, you also don't get this happening to you.

A friend made Robear and my wedding rings then gave them to us as a present. Robear lost his one day. He bought the metal detector, looked and asked folks. It had fallen off near the dentists office. We never found it. I wish you all the luck there is and hope you find yours

A ring is only a symbol and it can be replaced with a new one. It does make you love her less, nor does it guarantee one will be faithful. All that comes from within you.

I recently thought I had lost mine, too. Went to the gym and played it fast and loose with my ring because I was in a hurray. Got home and realized I had no clue where it was. I looked in all my stuff, went back to the gym and looked inside, looked around outside, checked the desk, retraced my steps, nothing. The next morning I found it sitting on my front seat.

It's a sick feeling and I wish you luck tracking it down. It's there! It didn't cease to exist! You can get it.

My wife and I have both went through this, with mixed results.

My wife "lost" hers while she was in psych C school in Portsmouth, VA. She was over her weight standards when she arrived, and they told her if she didn't lose some of the weight, they'd kick her out. Her rings fit fine when she entered the program. Anyway, my wife becomes narrowminded when it comes to goals like this, and really pushed her body to lose the weight. After a few weeks, she was doing really well, but her rings kept slipping off her fingers... worse so when her hands were wet. So one day after a workout in the gym, she took her rings off at the sink, washed her hands, and walked away not thinking about the rings. She said she realized she had left them before she got very far from the bathroom, but they were already long gone. She filed a police report, but couldn't file it as stolen, only lost.

Two weeks before all this, I had gotten a separate policy to cover her rings. They have about 1.25ct of diamonds between the bands, and they're platinum, so if something happened I wanted them covered. I had some issues with the claims department (because the person who made the policy apparantly thought $2500 = $1200, I wanted the $2500 coverage, since that's what the rings retailed for), but it was taken care of when I called the policy department and had the policy fixed (they backdated the policy to before the rings were lost, and a week later I got a check for the difference). We were able to find the exact set at the store we originally bought them from, and for a lot less than we originally paid because it was the last day of the quarter, and they really wanted to get any sales in that they could.

My own ring... I've only misplaced it once, that I can recall anyway. I was visiting my parents, and we went out to dinner the last night I was down there. When we got home, I noticed I didn't have my ring on. I've been wearing it for so many years, that I rarely feel it if it's there or not. So I call up the restaurant, but they hadn't seen it. Oh well, it's just a $200 white gold band, I'll get something cheap to replace it. I'm not all that sentimental towards it, it's just a ring. When we got back home from our trip, I was unpacking the luggage out of the trunk of the car, and there it sat, right in the middle of the trunk. It must have slipped off my finger a few hours before going to that dinner, because I remember shuffling through all that crap trying to find something for the wife.

Anyway, good luck in whatever happens.

Our 1st son, when he was about one and a half year old, opened a TV remote and tossed the batteries into his toy box. My wife couldn't find them and was absolutely positive that he must have swallowed them. Up to nowadays, whenever he gets hyper, we're pondering whether he indeed has done so, and it's the batteries that make him keep going like Energizer bunny....

I want to thank all those who responded. I don't know anyone who has lost their wedding ring, so it is nice to hear that it does happen and isn't a huge deal. I'm going to go look again tonight. Some of the snow will be melted but there was up to a foot of it around the spot so it may not help much.

My mom vacuumed hers one day. She told my father 3 days later, who revealed that he had lost his 1 year before.

I need a spacer for mine. It slides off my finger if it's soapy or I gesticulate too forcefully.

Look at the bright side. Once you lose the first one, losing the others wont matter much. I'm on number 2 myself.

On the bright side, you're not married now! Time to hit the strip club circuit! =D

I live in Chicago now, but it is nice to see a fellow Iowan here!

Well, I looked again tonight for 2 hours and found nothing. I was hoping enough snow had melted and it would just be sitting there in the road waiting for me. Unfortunately there was less white snow, and a ton of grey slush. I even took the advice here and pushed my search raidus out another 15 feet. I'll keep checking back, but I think it is gone for good. For all I know I lost it somewhere else, or someone stole it off my finger.

Mine came off about three summers ago when I was at a soccer coaching clinic.

I was devestated, as I had never, NEVER ,removed my band from my finger, not even when washing ,in the 8 years we had been married.

then that night I noticed it was gone.

I spent days with a metal detector on that filed... Never saw the ring again.

My wife bought me a nice new shiny one.

Alas, the Chicago weather claims another victim.

I worry about things like this and I'm not even engaged. :\