How to symbolize our relationship...

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Hi everyone. So I have been in a relationship with someone for about four years now, and thanks to a lot of stuff that has happened in the last year our relationship has deepened and strengthened more than I ever thought it would (Yay poly working!). We have done a lot of talking about where we are in each others lives, and we see Us being around for a long time. So, I have wanted to symbolize our relationship somehow, and I'm not sure how we can do that. She is married and I am just getting through a very bad divorce, so rings don't seem appropriate. What have others done to symbolize a long term relationship?
 
Tattoo!
 
^^^^ AKA as kiss of death for a relationship especially if you get their name somewhere in your body. :)

Does she like jewelry? Maybe a ring would be weird but a necklace or bracelet?

Or a meaningful piece of art?
 
I think if you want a symbol which in and of itself is a traditional thing I don't think a ring is a bad way to do. Everybody knows what it means, there is very little guessing involved.
 
Names don't come to mind when I think tattoos. Also not really a kiss of death.
There are plenty of things that symbolize whatever people would like. There are also a lot of symbols that have more than one meaning if you do the research (placement etc.).
 
Rings would be fine but if you don't want to do that, that's ok too. I have a wedding ring in gold on my left hand for one relationship and a special silver one on my right hand for the other relationship.

Matching tattoos, or coordinating tattoos (I've seen lots of these that are very cool-where half of it is on him & the other half on her, but each individually looks beautiful on its own as well). Other jewelry.

recently I saw a his and hers bracelet set where one had a key and the other the keyhole-that was pretty cool.
 
On tattoos... On the TV series "Catfish," in one of the few episodes where the online love actually turned out to be who he said he was, he and the girl who'd had the Catfish crew help track him down spent a few days together in person and decided to get matching tattoos. They had already decided they were not going to work as a relationship; she got engaged to her long-term boyfriend just after the trip. But she and the online guy had had a 6-year correspondence, beginning when both were young teens, and they had a strong emotional bond.

He got a lion on one shoulder; she got a lioness on her opposite shoulder, so that if they stood beside each other, it would appear that his lion was looking at her lioness.

Getting someone's *name* tattooed on you can be a bad idea. But having something matching like the lion/lioness thing can symbolize your connection while still standing alone if the connection ends, especially if the symbol/animal/whatever has a meaning for each of you separate from each other.
 
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