Christie's Hubby Still Wearing Wedding Ring ?

Q: Even with his affair to a teenage girl exposed and his marriage to Brinkley over, the Hamptons homebuilder kept the simple gold band on his ring finger while spending the weekend with his elderly parents on the North Fork in Long Island. Cook appeared amazingly cool, calm and still well-connected as he chatted on his cellphone, pored over architectural plans and read the newspapers while taking refuge inside his parents' two-story, modern home at a retirement community in Suffolk County.

A:Why is that so odd? He's not the one who wants to leave; if anything, he wants to pretend everything's fine and dandy and wants to go crawling back to his cushy little model life, pants zipped and locked (at least for couple of months). I'd find it much odder if he'd yanked off the ring. It looks a whole lot better if he's got the ring on. Conveys a message that "he wants to be married; this is not his idea." Subtly conveys that he is the injured party. Lawyers who advise women on their demeanor in divorce court - what to wear, how to act - ALWAYS tell them to wear their wedding ring set.

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