These situations are always extremely uncomfortable. Not only for the couple actually imploding before your eyes, but for all the bystanders.
And that’s where you come in. These sordid AskReddit tales all detail stories of people witnessing marriages symbolically coming to an end.
Hang on tight!
1. Meth is bad for you
“The husband had an unsolicited outburst at a family dinner, “I KNOW YOU GUYS KNOW I DO METH! AND YOU NEED TO BACK OFF ABOUT IT!” wife didn’t know; her dad didn’t know; nobody knew.”
2. Time to fly in the lawyers
“Some friends, who had been dating for a few months, got married in Las Vegas as sort of a drunken joke.
The girl found out she would lose a lot of her trust fund because of being married. A gaggle of 4 lawyers were flown in and got a very quick retroactive annulment.
Marriage lasted 4 days, except legally it was declared to have never existed at all. They dated for 3 more years then broke up.”
3. Oh my…
“Not sure how long it took the divorce to actually happen, but I went to a wedding where the bride didn’t go home with the groom afterwards.
There wasn’t any cheating, she just decided she didn’t want to be a military wife. They were together before he enlisted, so I think part of it was that she wasn’t ready to move away from her family.
It just sucked that she waited until that day to tell anyone.”
4. Holy sh*t
“Next door neighbor got married. Less than 2 months later she moved out, said he was abusive and a drunk.
A couple of weeks later he shot and killed their neighbor through the front door after an escalating feud involving the neighbor’s dog getting shot with a bow and arrow.”
5. No sexting, please
“I went to a wedding where the bride got drunk and the groom picked up her phone and saw that she was sexting a coworker during the entire wedding… He told the officiant to not file the paperwork. Great reception though.
Edit: This occurred at the end of the reception as they were leaving to go to the honeymoon suite (the story is she was very drunk and her phone kept getting notifications so he picked it up). They did not go on their honeymoon and they returned the gifts to everyone. The guests weren’t told about what happened for a couple weeks as the bride was trying to save the relationship. I was also not privy to the legality of the nuptials not being submitted to the city clerk, so I can’t help on that front.”
6. One annulment, coming up
“Years and years ago, my uncle’s girlfriend planned a wedding and invited everyone and didn’t tell him until the week of.
I don’t know the whole story about why she did it but he went through with it and quietly got it annulled and broke up with her.”
7. Not a good idea
“I know two couples who got married for the sole purpose of having sex together. Both marriages lasted a year combined.”
8. Her last line is a zinger!
“I was a bridesmaid at a Mormon wedding (despite not being a Mormon myself.) The wedding was rushed because the parents had interstate travel coming up and didn’t wish to leave their respective children (late teens/ early 20s) without supervision while they were away. For fear of lost virginities.
I have some makeup I bought for the wedding that lasted longer than the marriage…”
9. 6 long months
“My friend married this woman after years of dating. They were together about 6 months, then on their first Christmas, he got her a present and she got him nothing. Later that night she left their house and didn’t come back until the next morning.
Apparently she had made an account on some dating site on Christmas, met a guy, and slept with him that night. She came clean the next day, but that was the end of their 6 month marriage.”
10. Cheater
“A relative of mine had a marriage last less than 3 weeks. They had been together for a couple years and even went to premarital counseling at their church for a few months to get ready. Their wedding was super lavish and it was clear a lot of prep and money went into it. At their wedding they announced they were expecting their first child.
Everything seemed great. Unfortunately the whole thing blew up when the wife discovered he had been cheating on her for almost their entire relationship with multiple women. She found this out while in a foreign country on their honeymoon, 4 months pregnant. I know from her mom that she had complications in her pregnancy that they attribute to the stress of all of this.”
11. Never seen again
“My dad and his second wife made it like not even four months before she left and I never saw or heard from her again. She said she was going to give me an old Nintendo 64, she never did.”
12. A special day
“My wife’s family’s neighbor’s daughter got married and threw a huge wedding day bash like spent 50-70 grand. Then not even 2 weeks later got divorced. She had been cheating on her husband throughout the engagement but still wanted her ‘special day’. I heard later on that she had asked her mom if she had to live with her husband after they got married.”
13. Sad all around
“A relative of mine was forced into a shotgun wedding. The bride had a miscarriage, so they got divorced a month later.”
14. Probably not the best idea?
“I work as a clerk at a Family Courthouse.
Bride f*cked the DJ. At the reception.
New record for the office pool.”
15. What did he expect?
“They got married in the October, she left him just after Christmas the same year. She was bored.
I don’t know what he expected really, she’d cheated on him when they were engaged too and he’d forgiven her.”
Wow… that was a fast post! I could use about 15 more of those stories!
How about you? Would you break it off that quick?
Let us know in the comments!
