Mom turns wedding ring into necklace for her daughter after her divorce
A mom's thoughtful gift to her daughter following her divorce is warming hearts on the internet.
Devin Petit, from Pittsburgh, PA, tweeted a photo of a necklace her mother gave to her as an early birthday gift. But, this was no ordinary necklace.
The necklace was made from diamonds taken from her mum's wedding band.
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"She said although her marriage to my dad didn’t work out, they both agreed I was the best thing to come from it, which is why she wanted me to have it," wrote Petit.
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"She’s genuinely the sweetest, and I’m so thankful to have parents like them," wrote Petit in a second tweet.
Petit's tweet—gained almost 30K retweets, and more than 250K likes—appears to have struck a chord with many people with divorced parents.
One woman wrote that she was in tears. "Coming from divorced parents, this is the best thing I've ever seen. Turning something horrible into something so beautiful," wrote Kayla Ramirez.
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Another person said "this is how a divorce should happen," adding that they believed "this is how the child should be treated in the situation."
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Several others said their parents did the same thing for them following their divorce.
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Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.
A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.
Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.
