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“‘Till death do us part” is a classic, time-honored wedding vow that, nevertheless, many couples manage to break. After all, divorces are quite common these days, often for good reasons. Not every relationship is a winner and not every partner is loyal. But in most cases, the marriage does at least last a bit of time after the wedding itself.
Someone asked “People who went to a wedding and the couple broke up soon, what happened to them?” and netizens shared their best stories. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to share your thoughts and stories in the comments section below.
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#1
The groom filed for divorce half a year after the wedding, because he "got rid of the depression thanks to [bride] and since he's now healed, he wants to see what life has to offer him."
Took the bride some time to get over it, but she started dating again after three years of healing and is really happy now.
Tabitha 1 year ago
I dated a couple guys like this. The second they were feeling strong and good about themselves again, because of all the normalcy and emotional support I—-I, ME, I—-gave them, they dropped me like a hot potato and went looking for the exact same kind of a*****e people who caused them to be so depressed in the first place. Like addicts looking for d***s the second they’re clean and out of rehab. One even tried to come back to me a few months, and a new depression, later. I didn’t let him inside. I just loudly talked to him in the doorway. “WTF, man? You really expect me to waste my time on you again, just to end up having you dump me AGAIN once you feel good? You’re the fool here, I’m not. Now go away and don’t come around me again” (not verbatim, but the gist of what I said), then I closed the door on him. I am no one’s bottle of happiness they only open when they’re feeling down, then throw away.
Emily 1 year ago
My ex-husband did the same thing, only after 6 years of marriage and about 10 years together in total. Blood, sweat, money, and tears for YEARS put into his mental health and he dumped me over a zoom call (LOL) because he couldn't handle that my mental health was plummeting after years of stress, emotional abuse, and neglect. It all turned out for the best though, my current partner is amazing and really came through after a recent rough mental help patch and showed me what real support from a partner actually is. <3
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
Life already gave you what sounds like an amazing woman, you selfish jackass.
Richienotsorich 1 year ago
Bit like when the medication is working and you decide you don't need it anymore!
Ina 1 year ago (edited)
Had a similar case in my friends group. My friend's ex had depression, anxiety, very low self esteem etc. He decided to help her straight way and he did. She got her mental health under control, her self esteem went up to stars to the point she started modeling jobs. And as soon as she did - she started f*****g another guy, an "influencer" and after months of treating my friend like a garbage, she dumped him.
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#2
Shortly after the wedding, Bride was in a traumatic 2 vehicle car accident involving multiple family members. Two family members died. Bride was in an induced coma for some time, missing the funerals even. She broke her back, shattered 3/4 of her face, and had several other injuries. A few weeks after she returned home, her new husband told her she needed to get over the accident.
They didn’t last 6 months.
Shark Lady 1 year ago
So much for "in sickness and health". She's definitely better off without him, but what a s****y way to find out.
Vinnie 1 year ago
His attitude tells me that he wouldn't have been affected much if the bride had died. The deaths of two in-laws meant nothing to him.
Tabitha 1 year ago (edited)
He would also have left her because her face was shattered and would never be the same, and she broke her back and would never have the same mobility as she had before. Some people are only “fair weather” spouses. They’re wonderful when everything is going well, and they’re still OK when THEY’RE the ones who need the love, help, and support of others. But, oh boy! do they become the absolute shittiest people you could ever meet when someone else needs THEM for a change. When THEY are the ones who have to give, to understand, to make accommodations for someone else, including someone who they’re supposed to love. If you want a frame of reference, watch Ordinary People and observe the character of the mother as opposed to the father. I know the story is fiction, but the personalities do exist in real life (I’ve run into them myself). The mother character is a prime example of someone who is only wonderful when everything is wonderful, but totally s****y and incapable of adjusting when someone needs them to take care of them. The father, in the other hand, does everything he can to help make things right, to try to understand what the family member in need is going through, and help them get through it, to heal, and get past it and on with their life.
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Aurora 1 year ago
Men abandoning their wives as soon as they get sick or hurt is sadly a very common and well documented phenomenon.
Selena Wilson 1 year ago
Yeah, especially when it's a chronic illness or long term disability.
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#3
Wife caught the husband having sex with the pastor.
Chiba Learns 1 year ago
Well that's a break from the norm. Thought men of the cloth preferred them younger.
Nimitz 1 year ago (edited)
Lol. Almost every evangelical church my mom's been a member of had a pastor who cheated. Sometimes with 17 y/o girls. Every time my mom and the rest of the congregation enable it and drone on about how he was tempted by demons and now his marriage to his wife is SO strong having weathered the storm. *gag*
#4
Groom smashed wedding cake in to the bride's face on a Saturday.
By Monday she had retained a divorce lawyer.
I saw her a few months later and got an update, and told her I was very proud of her. I have no idea how things turned out.
Just a boring person 1 year ago
Why would anyone continue doing this tradition, it isn't funny and also a waste of food as well tissues and water(for cleaning)!
Alexandra 1 year ago
It's also dangerous. If it's a multi-tiered cake, there are inserts that can blind you if someone shoves your face into the cake.
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Josephine Blogs 1 year ago
Lucky the cake didn't have skewers in it to hold the tiers together.
Cadence Thorne 1 year ago
I just put a little blob of icing on the tip of my husband's nose as I fed him the cake. He laughed and did the same to me.
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tori Ohno 1 year ago
If the groom didn't clear it with her before hand, he simply did it to humiliate her. She's lucky to be free of him.
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Turns out the guy cheated and infected himself and her with HIV. She found out when she tried to donate blood.
Aelin Wildfire 1 year ago
If he knew that he was HIV+ and deliberately had unsafe sex with her, then that's a crime pretty much everywhere....
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Samsquatch & Monko 1 year ago
Reading a book about the immune system: hiv is like super bad we are unbelievably lucky that it’s not a death sentence anymore due to modern medicine-
#6
I was at an Indian wedding. The bride and groom were on stage and the grooms mom came on stage to feed the bride a sweet, some syrup fell on her dress and the bride lost her s**t and started cussing at the grooms mom. The groom got up grabbed his mom and his family as well as the rest of the people that were attending on his side and walked out.
Sunny Day 1 year ago
Maybe the bride didn't want to marry him from the start, and saw her chance to end things permanently.
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Ineke Pronk 1 year ago
Is it even normal at Indian weddings for mothers in law to feed the bride? Cause I definitely don't know enough about them to call it a bridezilla move or an mil sabotaging an event to keep owning her son move.
Anthorn 1 year ago
I went to an Indian wedding once and it was perfectly pleasant. The bride wasn't an entitled brat.
Vinnie 1 year ago
The bride throwing a fit could happen in any culture. I associate Indian weddings more with lots of singing and dancing.
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Chiba Learns 1 year ago
Good on the groom. That's not something you take lightly. I doubt it was the only incident though.
#7
My sister had a kid with a guy and they decided to get married. In the weeks leading up to the wedding, she noticed he was disrespectful and a little controlling. I stupidly told her things like that could be worked through and marriage takes work and compromise from both parties.
The wedding was a mess: two hours behind schedule, the groom had no vows prepared, and they were never legally married. After the wedding, the guy's mask came off and he turned fully abusive and controlling. She tried to make it work, but he had no desire to change, so they ended up splitting after less than a year.
But because they had a kid together, he's still in her life and still trying to control her using the kid and weaponized child protective service check-ups (which turn up nothing). The kid's now 10 and he's picking up all the abusive language and behaviors from his father.
The moral of the story is (as always): if someone shows you who they are, believe them.
HolyDiver 1 year ago
or just reproduce responsibly. Modern marriage is just a financial scam.
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Lowrider 56 1 year ago
Unfortunately, some people think they can 'change' their partner when they get married. Once an a*****e always an a*****e.
Brian Droste 1 year ago
Once the mother found out how abusive the father was she should presented the evidence to the court and tried to get full custody of the child or limited the father visiting rights.
Nitka Tsar 1 year ago
Yes it is but in this case it sounds like the kid was already there before the wedding
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My friend dated an Italian girl for a while. About a year in, durring the pandemic, they had a courthouse wedding so she could stay in country. Afterwards, they had a ceremony in our town, and then one in her hometown in Italy.
A couple months after that, she let her real self slip. Durring an argument, she threatened to slit his throat in his sleep if he did anything to jeopardize their perfect couple image / her pending citizenship. A couple days later, she flew back to italy for work (she was in imports)
He filed for divorce, got a restraining order and his lawyer told immigration, and she was barred from reentry. Also, She apparently really didnt understand his financial situation. His family is 10th generation in our town, which is one of the highest property values in the US, so they are quite wealthy, even if they dont act it.
She apparently didnt understand that most of 'his assets' were really part of the family trust, just allocated to him for management/ use.
She thought she was getting half of their $4M house. And part of the 2M investment account he used to create his buisness. Neither were in his name. She ended up getting a geotracker that barely runs, and like $5k. His uncle who was the lawyer who oversees and whose father created the trusts was his divorce lawyer and saw to that.
He and i recently had dinner, and i brought out a bottle of aperitivo id bought during the wedding in tuscany, and we were joking about how the bottle outlasted the marriage.
#9
That would be my own wedding, it was arranged and my parents were super confident him and his family were great people. He had a pretty good income, they presented themselves as religious and very educated. Three weeks in and he started making disrespectful comments about my dad and family overall, I separated and knew I wasn't going to spend the rest of my life with a person who couldn't even respect my parents.
After 8 months of narcissistic abuse during the separation, he turned my whole life upside down and by the time we had divorced, I lost and gained a lot of weight, had severe hairloss, depression, and thought I was going crazy/imagining things he did or said because of the constant gaslighting, failed all my exams and wasted over 6k of my tuition fees because I couldn't focus on my exams so i pretty much failed my whole semester which set me back academically and I ended up taking 2 gap years. I couldn't hold chunks of the previous 24 hours of my memory often because of all the psychological abuse.
Its been 3 years and im doing a lot better now though, regularly attending therapy, got back into uni and am working part time to support my studies. I look forward to a happier future.
Last I heard of him, he got re-married almost instantly but I know karma will get him good one day. One way or another, God will serve justice and ill just watch his downfall from afar ✌🏻😌.
lisa_l_ross58 1 year ago
No. Arranged marriages are often more successful than love marriages.
Load More Replies... Tabitha 1 year ago
He’s going to be divorced many times over, and eventually marry a girl with very large and strong relatives who don’t take kindly to their girl being mistreated, and will definitely clean his clock. Karma can sometimes be a b***h, but once in a while she’s a wonderful b***h who gets sweet vengeance for those who are abused.
Morgan Wyatt 1 year ago
Leaving him was the best thing you could have done. Much luck for the future.
Veronica Jean 1 year ago
My abusive ex did the same thing to another woman as he did to me, now he's married They play happy family but I'm waiting for the inevitable....that man is serial killer status
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
What? Arranged marriages don't ONLY happen in India.
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Tabitha 1 year ago
They always did say “The Lord helps those who help themselves.”
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3 times. All 3 where folks who enter a relationship because they wanted a relationship not because they found a person they loved. Then they went and got married too young because “that’s what you do” after a certain amount of time in a relationship.
Please people, take your time picking your person.
quentariel 1 year ago
And please live together even a little while before marriage. Everyone can put a good foot forward if you only meet sometimes, but it's really hard to fake a persona when living together.
Tabitha 1 year ago
And do NOT have children with them, or you will NEVER be able to get them out of your life.
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Tara L. 7 months ago (edited)
I'm so glad I waited instead of marrying young. My husband & I are perfect for each other, we have the same hobbies, taste in movies/TV shows, music, & video games. We've been married 17 years & rarely argue & have never had a big fight. He's intelligent & we both embrace science. Meanwhile the guy I almost married in my early 20s ended up dying from covid because he didn't believe in it because his pastor told his flock it wasn't real. 🙄
#11
The groom went missing between the ceremony and reception. Bride found him banging the best man in the toilets. She smashed a glass in his face.
two-sided llama 1 year ago
Honestly if u are f**king someone in on ur wedding. Night other then your partner you kinda deserve i
#12
Bride cheated on the Groom with one of the groomsmen 2 days after the wedding. The groomsman was from out of town and was staying at the couple's house. They did it on the couch while the Groom was asleep.
They divorced immediately. She left halfway across the USA to be with the groomsman without much of a word to anyone due to immense guilt. She didn't even tell her own family; the Groom told them.
Groom was in shambles for months. Seems to be doing better now. Happened in February of this year. 7 years down the drain.
Edit: He found out because the bride was so stricken with guilt that she told him the next day.
Full of Giggles 1 year ago
She was also so stricken with guilt that she picked up her entire life and moved half way across the country to be with her affair partner. It’s nice he was there to comfort her. /s
#13
Two days after the wedding, he ran off with the upstairs neighbour. They are still together 40 years later. He was a total s**t for going through with the wedding in the first place.
#14
Brides dad and brothers were proud military men. Groom bonded with them initially over his service as well because it was sort of how they defined themselves.
Bride’s family encouraged groom to wear his uniform for the wedding, so he did. All wedding pictures, the Groom in his uniform was prominent.
Found out shortly after wedding, upon being pressured to take out a GI loan for a house, that the groom admitted he was never in the military, and had bought his uniform off e-Bay.
James Frail 1 year ago
I don't understand the stolen valor crowd. It's not like it's hard to get into the military. Even when I was asked by vets at the VA in the mental health ward, who were SURE that I had, I denied it. Even if it would have given these old guys some solace in the moment, never claim service if you haven't.
Binky Melnik 1 year ago
Big up, James! What I don’t understand is (unless I’m remembering incorrectly), we were told we couldn’t wear our uniforms to civilian affairs once we got out of the military, yet I’ve seen quite a few folks wearing their uniforms to weddings when they were civilians. Am I remembering wrong? (I know it’s unlikely you’ll know the answer bud (thanks for not lying! That in itself is valorous), but I’m hoping someone here can jiggle my brain and make the right info fall out.)
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SAF saf 1 year ago
Stolen valor? no, no "...with intent to obtain money, property, or other tangible benefit" trying to impress the in laws doesn't fall into any of these.
Load More Replies... Lowrider 56 1 year ago
Stolen Valor. It's actually a crime here in the USA, especially if you try to reap some kind of benefit from it.
#15
My cousin & her ex-husband were both teachers. Turned out that she legitimately enjoyed educating kids, while he liked to diddle them.
#16
I'm a photographer. I was photographing a wedding and the bride was a NIGHTMARE. Signed a contract outlining exactly what I'd do, what she would receive, etc.
Immediately started demanding extra services, more images (I had already over delivered), images of things that didn't even HAPPEN, nor was the desire for them ever communicated to me so I could set them up.
She tried to get people to bomb all my socials with bad reviews, but apparently nobody else actually likes her either because they just messaged me telling me what she was doing.
She occasionally messaged to demand "all the other photos"and abruptly stopped like four months later. Turns out she was just as ridiculous and demanding with her new husband and he bailed.
Tabitha 1 year ago (edited)
The kind of “hoot” who will NEVER HAVE the epiphany where she realizes SHE was always the actual problem in everything that went sour in her life, and will go to her grave blaming it all on anyone but herself.
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Lila Allen 1 year ago
Ok seriously how do these bridezillas find guys willing to put up with this? No one is that hot
#17
Was in the ER at the same time a wedding party came in with multiple stab wounds and various injuries from a brawl. Apparently it was some sort of Romeo and Juliet situation. During the reception, the Bride and Groom's families started outright brawling and trying to k*ll each other. Bride was sobbing by the side of the stabbed groom. Her white dress was splattered in blood and makeup was streaming down her face. Police came in and were interviewing everyone.
I was in for anaphylaxis and was across from the groom's room. My mom was in the waiting room. We compared notes when I was released.
Would love to know more details and if that couple is still together.
Hodge Elmwood 1 year ago
Sounds like a christening I heard about years ago in Quebec. The baby's parents were unmarried teenagers. A family member started a fight, which turned into a brawl, right there in the church. If I recall correctly, the priest got knocked out during the fighting. I always wondered whatever happened to those kids and that poor baby.
#18
The bride had gotten a personal trainer to look good for the wedding. The marriage lasted 3 weeks because it turned out she started sleeping with the PT. Was a nice wedding tho.
#19
I was at one where the bride and groom both got drunk at the reception, the groom punched the bride in the mouth, and the bride’s brother beat his a*s. Everyone got arrested, and they filed for an annulment as soon as they were bailed out.
#20
Spent so much money on a destination wedding. They didn’t even last 6 months! He cheated on her with a 70 year old lady!… we are all 33-34 years old!
#21
I got married and found out 2 months later that she had been cheating since 6 months before the wedding. Could have saved a lot of money!
#22
According to my buddy, he just realized they were better off as friends than married so they divorced. It was amicable and totally uninteresting. They haven't kept in touch.
Another friend found out his wife was cheating on him. She went on a trip to visit friends in San Francisco. When he texted her after her plane was due to arrive, she told him "SF is great, I just got there" and it stuck in his mind as weird that she said 'there' instead of 'here'. He already apparently had some suspicions so he reached out to the people she was supposedly visiting and they told him she wasn't there. I guess they were prepared to cover for her only to the extent they didn't actually have to lie. Anyways, this all played out on Facebook back when the posts started with "Your Name is...." so he put "Bob is wondering who his wife is with." It's the reason I joined FB, to follow the drama. Anyways, he's happily remarried with kids.
Lyoness 1 year ago
Nothing wrong with that IMHO. They figured out they didn't have enough in common (or chemistry or whatever) to stay married so it's entirely possible they didn't have enough to stay friends either.
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My best female friend got married pretty quickly to this guy who none of us knew too well. The night of her wedding I had a get together with some of my friends who were at the wedding. During the party my friend shows up but without her husband (which we all thought was strange). She said he went out with some of his friends 🤷. A few months later he hit her and she noped out of that marriage.
#24
Pre-wedding night, after many drinks and celebration with family and wedding party, everyone returned to their hotel room. Bride & Groom got into an altercation mid-coitus. She was 5'11" and he was 6'4", ex-amatuer baseball player. Bride punched the living daylights out of the Groom while straddling him. Groom takes off in nothing but a towel. My date was the Best Man and the entire wedding party were woken up by family members to go find the Groom to make sure he doesn't off himself.
Groom was found and talked down from the ledge at 6:30am. Everyone knew what happened but no one knew if the wedding was going forward. I was packing my luggage to leave, when I was approached by the mother of the Groom to put makeup on her son to cover his broken nose and bruises around his eyes. They did not take him to the hospital. Bride walked down the aisle like nothing happened and it's her happiest day while he looked like a battered panda with a chipped tooth.
They managed to be married for 9 months....9 longer than we all anticipated.
Skogsrået 1 year ago
She was a lowlife abuser, I feel so sorry for the guy and how nobody stopped this nore helped him get away from his abuser.
Lyoness 1 year ago
That's what I don't get either. Why would you put makeup on someone who was attacked to help hide that they were attacked by the person they're about to marry? That's nuts.
Load More Replies... Tabitha 1 year ago (edited)
I will bet that, if he were to look back on their relationship with the rose-colored glasses OFF, he’d realize there were red flags all over their relationship, so that wasn’t the first time she had abused him, just the most violent. Either the other times didn’t register as abuse to him, or he laughed them off because he’s a big strong guy and thought he could handle it, or he simply wanted to make himself believe it wasn’t happening, or he was mortified by it happening to him, couldn’t talk to anyone about it, and didn’t know what to do about it. But the violent psycho’s patience for waiting until after the wedding wore off the night before, and that’s when everyone else knew anyhow, and should have stopped the wedding instead of letting it happen. That’s when the people closest to him really let him down.
Untamed Snark 1 year ago
I really hope there were better people there for him after he managed to leave his abuser.
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Mark McCawley 1 year ago
For every 2 women abused by a male partner 1 male is abused by their female partner. But we don't talk about that.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
My dad was abused by my mother for all of my childhood. She would verbally, emotionally, and mentally abuse him, and she also physically abused him. She would go after him with a kitchen knife and slash up his arms and his back (superficial cuts, not stabs, but they bled a LOT.) He never stopped her or tried to fight back. She abused me as well (she would often throw me across the room when I was still small.) Women absolutely can be abusers, and men absolutely can be the victims of domestic violence. Abuse is horrific regardless of the abuser's gender or lack thereof, but I especially loathe the pervasive concept that "men can't be victims".
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Adam Benson 1 year ago (edited)
Wait, this wedding STILL went ahead? I bet if the roles were reversed, the wedding would've been called off immediately and criminal charges filed. There's absolutely no way a sane mother would encourage her daughter to get married to the man who just battered her. Are we supposed to believe that men's pain is funny and expendable?
#25
She got into a bad car wreck and changed. Physically she recovered but mentally she was a totally different person. Before the wreck she was committed to her career and wanted a house and a family. After the wreck she became a hippie, experimenting with d***s and travels the country in a van.
Unclear if it was the concussion/brain injury or the PTSD from the whole ordeal.
Teutonic Disaster 1 year ago
Or, and here me out please, the accident made her realize that all her previous aspirations were superficial BS that she felt she had to do to fulfill expectations and decided to instead live the life she truly wanted.
Jay Cee 1 week ago
Worked with an engineer who was very straight laced and serious. Was in a Land Rover when it rolled down a mountain side in Hong Kong. He survived and recovered but had a large lump on his forhead for ever after. Complete change of personality thought. Still a great engineer but the most light hearted joker I've ever known. I guess if you come THAT close . . . ?
#26
I went to a wedding of friends of my husband a long time ago. There was a betting board for how long the relationship would last AT the reception - pretty much everyone, including the grooms parents, bet on a square.
They had been together since high school and university. They were both starting good jobs and were not pregnant.
For them, it appeared as though they were both just doing the "next logical step" in the relationship instead of asking themselves if they really wanted to be together. Lasted less than a year.
Juley Clark 1 year ago
We had one for my BIL, the longest guess was 3 years by the Brides Mom, when 3 years came and went we took the money and split it in 2 and set up collage funds for the 2 kids. They ended up divorced after affairs #4 (her) #6 (him) just shy of the 5 year mark. Both kids are now in university using the funds raised by the pool and subsequent donations from friends and family on their birthday's and holidays and the interest.
Doodles1983 1 year ago
I attended a wedding with the same. A bet over how long it would last. Less than a month. I lost. I bet sooner.
#27
Bride basically immediately started cheating on the groom with their next door neighbor and who knows how many others. She got herself a bachelor pad apartment and moved out insisting they needed to work on the marriage.
We all assume he only ended up filing after a couple months because his family forced the issue once they found out what was happening. Dude was crying about “winning her back” during covid and is now at the *very least* emotionally cheating on his second, current wife with the first wife.
We are all simply waiting for them to blow up their current second marriages and remarry and watch them pretend they’re both not spineless scumbags.
two-sided llama 1 year ago
Also maybe go to therapy after a marriage with a bad ending
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They married in Feb, divorce started in July. She didn't want to accept his kid from a previous relationship. Like literally none of her family knew about the kid. The woman was jealous when her husband bought flowers for his grandmother. She used to stay over with her sister and brother in law and sleep between them in the same bed. Super cuckoo.
Skogsrået 1 year ago
Never marry someone that don't accept your kid or is jealous of your relationship with your grandma.
Zoe's Mom 1 year ago
..or your animals. If someone ask you to give up your animals, please show them the door.
Papa 1 year ago (edited)
I'm confused. OP said "literally none of her family knew about the kid." Did that include the bride, or just the rest of her family? Judging by the next two sentences, I assume she knew about the child and hadn't told her family, but I'm not sure. In any case, she sounds batshit crazy.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
OP on Reddit clarified in another comment: "He didn't know that she didn't tell them. Or that she felt that way. She wanted tohsg hum because if his job and how he spoiler her." I'm guessing that the wife knew about the husband's kid, pretended to accept the kid during their dating/courtship in order to lure the guy into marriage/commitment. But she apparently never once mentioned to HER family that her fiancé had a child from a previous relationship.
Load More Replies... tori Ohno 1 year ago
Why didn't he tell her about his kid? Children are a deal breaker for me. Obviously for her too.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
SHE knew about the kid. She didn't tell her family members that her fiancé/husband had a child from a previous marriage. I am guessing she lied to the man while they were dating in order to fool him into thinking she accepted his child, when she didn't. OP on Reddit said in another comment: "He didn't know that she didn't tell them. Or that she felt that way. She wanted tohsg hum because if his job and how he spoiler her."
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#29
They married at 18, each to escape overbearing parents and home life. Her parents were helicopter parents obsessed with their kid doing everything ‘first’ in their extended family. His family were extremely religious and abusive. ( the woman in this scenario is an extended family member)
After getting married he enlisted in the military, signing a multi year contract without telling her about it until the night before he shipped out for basic training.
She wanted to divorce right away but her parents were too ashamed to have her divorce only 2 months after the marriage. So they convinced her to stick it out for another year before they filed for divorce anyways.
My O My 1 year ago
Not in the long run. But, I think, for some it may be a good way out of an abusive famil,
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Selena Wilson 1 year ago
Moved in with my first husband at 19 to escape my abusive father. Turned out I married one just like him. Stayed 4 years too long.
#30
Ex wife divorced me for the guy she cheated with, married him the day our divorce was final, 4 months later, called me to come pick up our son as they were having a tift, and he wanted to leave, called me again before we made it back home begging me to come stay with me, I said no, but my son said
“Dad, please let mom come over, at least till she can find a hotel or somethin”
So I agreed to allow her to hang out for a bit, she gets there, and with in 30 minutes of her arrival, her current husband shows up, and starts being a d**k immediately, I very politely told him
“Bruh, you gunna have to take your a*s away from my house, I’m only doing this cus my boy wanted me to, don’t get hurt over her f****n around,”
He respects my statement, and does as I requested, she leaves like 3 hours later to go to a hotel somewhere, and the next morning her divorce paperwork was served to my door, it was odd telling the sheriffs deputy she wasn’t here and I dunno where she went, and having him not believe me.
Tabitha 1 year ago (edited)
Hope you got your son out of all that horseshit drama and petitioned for full custody.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
OP on Reddit said: "Yes this was over 20years ago , we are both way less toxic then we were then, and subsequently having a great time being grandparents." I hope that's true, for their son's sake and their grandkids' sake.
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#31
A friend of mines mom got married for the 5th?? Time to a groom who was younger than her adult son. Some kind of redneck brawl broke out at the reception with the groom fighting some of her family. He gets an arrestwarrant but bails/evades arrest. She wasn’t gonna turn in the paperwork.. but he gets into some sort of scuffle with the cops.. and pulls a gun on them. He gets k*lled by the police.
She drops the paperwork in the mail the next day… gets a “don’t sue us” settlement from the city/county for the death of her Husband.
#32
I went to a wedding for one of my wife's cousins and immediately noticed that she had nothing but contempt for the groom. Full on eye rolling, cold shoulder, disdain. Everyone could feel it. Their body language was that of two co-workers who don't like each other somehow being forced into this marriage. I just can't imagine why you'd go forward with it in those circumstances.
And yes they were divorced within six months.
Sunny Day 1 year ago
Could have been an argument that day. A friend showed up at the church ready to kill her stb husband. He & his family all left for the church as she was getting ready - and they took every single car. This was before cell phones. She had to call & wait for one of the 3(?) taxis in town. But they lasted over 30 years until cancer got her.
Joshua David 1 year ago (edited)
After growing up in a very abusive home, I cant not help but to think theres a small sense of enjoyment in all the chaos. Not from me though.
#33
We drove 14 hours to a wedding and it was called off 3 hours after we arrived cause it came out the bride cheated on the husband with a co-worker and got an abortion. True story.
#34
Groom was my cousin. They had been together for almost a decade, he had a stroke very young. That prompted the wedding.
Then the complications came - he had seizures. Her world continued to expand, his shrank. They didn't make it to their 2nd wedding anniversary. .
Mumma Cass 1 year ago
Shame on her!! My parents are not married but have been together for about 47yrs (I'm almost 43). My mum had her 1st stroke when I was 5yrs old & my dad has stuck by her side to this very day considering my mum has had several strokes to this day, has had open heart surgery. They never argued in front of us kids but only disagreements about us! I hope the guy has overcome his stroke with the right physio, speech therapist & all the support needed that is needed. He deserves to be l
Mumma Cass 1 year ago
He deserves unconditional love! Wishing him a brighter future!
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#35
Bride wanted an open relationship, ended up falling in love with someone else and the marriage fell apart. Come to find out after the fact that this had been brewing before the wedding, but she didn't call it off because her dad was paying for it and flying across the country so she felt pressured to follow through (which was super s****y to do imo). My understanding is that she actually left the wedding with the bf instead of her new husband, and they got divorced soon after.
I always felt really bad for the husband, he was a nice guy and got blindsided by the whole thing. Without going into too much detail since I think they are on Reddit, the vibes at the wedding were definitely off, but I didn't know why until months later.
#36
I used to work in a photolab that offered ( at a premium ) hand printed photos and enlargements .no automated printers just me and a real nice enlarger.
we noticed one day when we were calling our late pickups that a wedding set that had been paid for 6 months eariler had not been picked up.
we called the bride and left a message and she came by the next day and had us toss them in the garbage as the marriage lasted six weeks.
they paid twenty five hundred dollars for the photograper and a big wedding proof print package oops.
it was nice to get the drawer space back again i guess.
#37
They were college sweethearts. Turns out, he was abusive the entire time, but he really ramped it up after the wedding.
#38
Groom told the bride 3 weeks after the wedding that she should find a boyfriend for her emotional needs. He’s actually poly (been together for 3 years prior and never said anything) and wanted to sleep with her friends. Then named three of her friends that he wanted to f**k. He was a s**t person, nepo baby, and left the country to travel after she kicked him out. Took a while to get a divorce since he never showed up to court (out of the country / state) or said “he didn’t want a divorce and he still loved her.”.
Orysha 1 year ago
He's not poly h'es a cheater who doesn't want to face the consequences of his actions.
Ellinor 1 year ago (edited)
Yeah, people think that you can't cheat if you're poly, but cheating is cheating in every kind of relationships. It's about communication and the consent of all parts.
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I was invited to the first wedding between two friends that ended up getting canceled because they broke up a few days before the wedding. A few days later they got back together and rescheduled the wedding ceremony a few weeks later but on a significantly smaller scale. I didn’t go to the rescheduled second wedding because our mutual friend informed me a few days before that they just filed for divorce. Apparently they just went down to city hall and got married by a justice of the peace on a whim. The smaller “wedding ceremony” was just going to be a get together for friends but they broke up again and filed for divorce before anything could happen.
#40
He went crazy. Unfortunately, they got married right as he was losing his mind. They never turned in the paperwork. But she actually tried to stick it out with him for a couple years but he was in prison most of that time. He was back 3 months before she finally just had to bail. Mental illness is rough.
#41
It was a few yrs after the wedding. They were running a pub together.. she rang to see where he was, "finishing up here in the bar, home soon".... her reply "I'm in the bar," he was cheating on her with his best mate (allegedly...).. but they separated and are now divorced and she is remarried.
#42
My husband and I were both wedding party members for one of his high school friends. He worked a construction job away from home for several days at a time, she had an admin job. I think she got lonely, so she joined a local "therapy" group that 100% turned out to be a cult.
She quit her job, stopped taking care of the home, and started taking long weekend trips with this group to go do copious amounts of shrooms in the woods. They're going through a divorce now, and it seems like she's getting the house and her parents are paying all her bills.
It's honestly wild. I've tried reaching out to her, we chat for a bit but whenever I ask about meeting up she totally ghosts me for months at a time.
#43
Went to a friend's wedding and he found out a few days later that she was hooking up with a guy at her job. Lucky for him they didn't turn in any of their legal marriage paperwork yet, so it really wasn't as big of a deal as it could've been.
#44
He had side chicks in almost every major city and state. They should have never gotten married because she was an emotional wreck and he was a d**k.
Marykay Klim 1 year ago
Yes, but what he Does can have serious medical implications/complications.
#45
Turned out the groom not only had been cheating on his bride but had done so while they were dating, and the woman (or at least one of them) was apparently at the wedding. I think they split up within a few months. I knew both of them but have never spoken a word to him since.
#46
I was asked to take some photos at a wedding - not the ‘official photos type’ but just atmosphere stuff. Didn’t know the couple that well. They had been together a good few years. Wedding was expensive - everything the bride wanted. I’m at best a hobby photographer but I got some good photos. I was really happy with the results and was processing them through photoshop- put best ones on a CD to send to the happy couple only to find out that they had decided to divorce. She wanted kids, he didn’t - deal breaker.
Tabitha 1 year ago (edited)
Sometimes one partner is louder and more determined to get their way, and the other partner just gives up trying to compromise, just hoping the other will come around, stop talking so damned much, and start hearing their side. Of course, they never do. Then that starts to fester and become a grievance and a wedge between them, and the relationship just breaks down. Because one wanted to talk it out and come to a mutually satisfactory agreement, and the other just kept drowning them out and insisting it HAD to be THEIR way, nothing got settled, but the seed for their breakup was planted (and fertilized by the one who wouldn’t STFU and listen). OK yes, this was the scenario in a past relationship of mine after he proposed and proceeded to outline what the rest of our lives would look like, and quite a bit of it wasn’t what I wanted, but he would never shut up long enough to listen—-and actually HEAR—- what I had to say. At least we broke up (actually I was the one who broke up with him) long before the wedding planning got started.
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He enlisted in the military, they got married, they announced that they were pregnant, and they broke up... All in less than a year. I don't really know what happened in that relationship, but I suspect they weren't thinking that far ahead.
#48
They were together seven years before getting married, divorced after a year because they were both constantly cheating on each other.
Marykay Klim 1 year ago
I'm not sure then what's happening when they were together too. They'd just gotten really good at hiding it.
Marykay Klim 1 year ago
Dictating software needs work. What I was trying to say was I'm sure they must have been doing it before getting married also.
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She liked women better than men.
Tabitha 1 year ago
Was there family pressure to get married? Did her family even know, or were they so far into denial they pressured her hard to find a man and marry him? Was she even aware of her authentic self before saying I do to someone she wasn’t really attracted to? There’s a lot of missing context that’s needed here to really understand before stating any opinion.
Papa 1 year ago
So she married a man, knowing she liked women better, and they got divorced because of it. Please explain the "smart" part.
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Rofl, oh yeah. buddy of mine got married and within 90 days was embroiled in the divorce proceedings. I went to the reception and and was like yeah, naw, this will never work...only because he was bragging about some action he got while engaged. She took the house and everything in it.
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Donkey boi 1 year ago
I have a friend that married because her partner was terminal. They were together for 3 months before he was diagnosed. She confided in some of us closest to her that she never saw herself being married to him, and was already thinking of breaking up when the news came. Nothing wrong with him, just not someone she saw having a future with. He proposed to her within days of his diagnosis, with a life expectancy of about a year he pretty much said that he didn't expect her to stay with him, but he could die happy if she was his wife. She said yes, thinking that she could bring him that peace and care for him until he passes. That was 4 years ago, he's still holding on and she's pretty much a full time carer for him. If you see them together you never think for a moment that she doesn't dote on him completely. She said that she made a promise to herself to make sure he felt loved until he passes and she'll see it through.
Hphizzle 1 year ago
Acquaintance knew that ex was cheating before wedding, but went through with it because ‘so many people were involved in the wedding it was too late to cancel.’ (Also religious and cultural pressure) I was flabbergasted. Flash forward kid, custody battle, restraining orders, risk of kidnapping, etc. 19 year old me learned real quick that marriage and weddings are two very different things.
B C 1 year ago (edited)
This isn't applicable to all of the situations above, but why do people rush to the altar? Maybe this is a controversial take, but I believe that people should date for a few years and live together before considering marriage. It doesn't matter how much you like each other. You need to see how this person lives, how they respond to change, and if you still enjoy each other after the novelty has passed. I'm no marriage expert, but this seems like common sense. What's more, I always told myself that I wouldn't get married until both of us were done with all schooling and had legit income—a union of two self-sufficient adults. My partner agrees, and we're sticking to this plan. We've been together 3 1/2 years and are content wait until I'm done with my masters and she's done with her DMA. In the end, we love each other, legally bound or not. This way, we may be able to comfortably afford the wedding we want and will already be an experienced team who know how to thrive together.
Aelin Wildfire 1 year ago
Sometimes, even time and living together aren't enough... Especially in the case of abusive a-holes.
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Robert Sissco 1 year ago
Knew a guy who wanted an open marriage with this wife, who started hooking up with one of my best friends. Apparently the husband meant HE wanted an open marriage, he was pissed his wife was having other relationships. Long story short, she divorced her husband and I officiated my friend's wedding to the guy's ex-wife.
Donkey boi 1 year ago
I have a friend that married because her partner was terminal. They were together for 3 months before he was diagnosed. She confided in some of us closest to her that she never saw herself being married to him, and was already thinking of breaking up when the news came. Nothing wrong with him, just not someone she saw having a future with. He proposed to her within days of his diagnosis, with a life expectancy of about a year he pretty much said that he didn't expect her to stay with him, but he could die happy if she was his wife. She said yes, thinking that she could bring him that peace and care for him until he passes. That was 4 years ago, he's still holding on and she's pretty much a full time carer for him. If you see them together you never think for a moment that she doesn't dote on him completely. She said that she made a promise to herself to make sure he felt loved until he passes and she'll see it through.
Hphizzle 1 year ago
Acquaintance knew that ex was cheating before wedding, but went through with it because ‘so many people were involved in the wedding it was too late to cancel.’ (Also religious and cultural pressure) I was flabbergasted. Flash forward kid, custody battle, restraining orders, risk of kidnapping, etc. 19 year old me learned real quick that marriage and weddings are two very different things.
B C 1 year ago (edited)
This isn't applicable to all of the situations above, but why do people rush to the altar? Maybe this is a controversial take, but I believe that people should date for a few years and live together before considering marriage. It doesn't matter how much you like each other. You need to see how this person lives, how they respond to change, and if you still enjoy each other after the novelty has passed. I'm no marriage expert, but this seems like common sense. What's more, I always told myself that I wouldn't get married until both of us were done with all schooling and had legit income—a union of two self-sufficient adults. My partner agrees, and we're sticking to this plan. We've been together 3 1/2 years and are content wait until I'm done with my masters and she's done with her DMA. In the end, we love each other, legally bound or not. This way, we may be able to comfortably afford the wedding we want and will already be an experienced team who know how to thrive together.
Aelin Wildfire 1 year ago
Sometimes, even time and living together aren't enough... Especially in the case of abusive a-holes.
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Knew a guy who wanted an open marriage with this wife, who started hooking up with one of my best friends. Apparently the husband meant HE wanted an open marriage, he was pissed his wife was having other relationships. Long story short, she divorced her husband and I officiated my friend's wedding to the guy's ex-wife.
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