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Tales from the Divorce Keeper: The Idea of the Wedding Ring Coffin
(Total Divorce) September 12, 2007 - While going through a divorce is often a difficult experience on the emotions, two women have developed unique ways to cope with the end of their marriages, the divorce process and life after divorce.
While some people may struggle with the finality of divorce, Jill Testa of New York and Alison Theis of Ohio have merged divorce and business as a means of coping and profiting at the same time.
After her 20-year marriage amicably ended in divorce, the 49-year-old Testa said in a UPI story that she needed some closure. While attending a funeral, Testa came up with an idea on how she could attain that closure. She would put her wedding ring in a coffin.
That's right. After crafting a coffin for her wedding ring, Testa and her brother Steve set up a Web site, weddingringcoffin.com, in which people could literally "bury the past" of their failed marriages.
Hardly a fly-by night operation, Testa's Web site offers a variety of wedding ring coffins, from miniature models to ones with solid wood and mahogany finishes and even velvet interiors and lids for open or closed caskets.
The wedding ring coffins also feature engraved plaques with messaging like "Six Feet isn't deep enough." Other plaques encourage people to move on with their lives following a divorce.
Testa, who keeps her wedding ring coffin on a shelf in her home, said in the story that people need to find ways to feel good about themselves after divorce. Whether that's "throwing their rings in a river" or buying a wedding ring coffin for anywhere between $30 and $35, Testa indicated that such actions could go a long way in coping with a divorce.
In other words, whatever floats your boat or wedding ring coffin.
TBD - The Business of Divorce Continued
Just as Testa's wedding ring coffin may be a morbid yet effective way for some people to symbolically bid adieu to their marriages and cope with divorce, Theis has turned something with a negative connotation into a positive.
After coming home from a business trip several months ago, Theis noticed that her husband was acting strange. While she thought she had a happy marriage, Theis was worried by her husband's different behavior. Something just didn't seem right.
Theis quickly began to investigate his behavior and learned that her husband had met someone on the Internet and was planning to wipe clean the couple's 401K, bank accounts and other assets.
Theis then put together an Evidence File and filed for divorce from her husband. Theis said in a press release that her investigative skills not only saved her family from being swindled by her husband but also prompted the idea to begin an investigative cheating service.
CheatPeeps.com was the end result. The Web site offers a wide variety of investigative services for people who suspect that their partner may be cheating on them. From email discovery and researching potential partners in more detail to compiling an evidence file and doing much more, Theis said that Cheat Peeps aims to take advantage of her unique investigative skills to help other people confirm or refute their suspicions and beat cheating partners to the punch.
Guess it's better to beat the cheating partners to the punch than punching them in the face after learning about their doggy-dog ways.