Warning: This post contains mentions of physical abuse and substance abuse.
When two people take the plunge and get hitched, both parties are (hopefully) planning to stay together forever.
Sometimes, this doesn't pan out as expected, though, and the marriage may not last for a long period of time.
Redditor u/damag3d_g00ds asked users to share stories of how people recognized that their short-term marriages weren't going to survive. Here are some of the wild comments they received about unions that crumbled within 72 days.
1. "My ex was with a woman for five years and married for two to three months. She had cheated on him and got caught before the wedding, but they somehow managed to work it out. She had also pressured him into marriage by giving him money and saying, 'If you don't come back with a ring, it's over.' So, two to three months into the marriage, he had noticed that she was acting shady again — excusing herself to the bedroom randomly with her iPad and going to her girlfriend's house (she's straight) at any given hour to have sleepovers and hang out. One day, she left to her girlfriend's as usual, and he found she had left her iPad this time which she usually keeps closely guarded."
2. "A month after getting married, she decided she didn't want to be a mom or wife anymore. She left us and has been living the party life ever since."
3. "I worked at a county clerk's office, and my friend's mom and her boyfriend came in to get a marriage license on a Friday right before closing time. They'd been living together for a decade. Monday morning, she was there waiting for us to open the doors, as she wanted a divorce ASAP. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. Much easier to get married than divorced."
4. "Not me, but my brother. He got his first serious girlfriend during his senior year of college. He was doing a lot of different stuff with her and told me that he was really happy. I told him that I thought that was great but that he needed to remember to take things slow. A week later, he bought a ring. Everyone in my family attempted to talk him out of it. Everyone. But I knew my brother was going to do whatever he wanted, so I just said, 'Sure.' They rented a house, bought furniture, moved in, got married, and after a month, they got divorced."
5. "A month after we got married, he wanted to re-enlist. I was against it, but he convinced me it would be for the best — that I would be able to finish nursing school, and we would be financially stable. While he was away for training, I was boxing up our apartment because we were to be stationed in Germany. As I was packing, I came across documents from his prior service that talked about a previous marriage that I knew nothing about. When he called later that day, I asked him about it, and he completely flipped."
6. "Friends of mine from college were married for 48 hours. The wife discovered on their honeymoon that her husband was having an affair. Unfortunately, she was stuck on the island for two weeks after that due to a hurricane. Crazy story! She was even featured on Behind the Scenes with Jimmy Kimmel & Audience during her divorce trip."
7. "I don't know if this counts, but I called off an engagement 15 years ago, about a month before the wedding. Looking back, the woman was a walking box of red flags, and I am so grateful I wised up before the wedding and not after. Since then, being married now to someone with respect for me has brought me plenty of revelations about what went wrong. My advice to people getting out of bad relationships: Take the experience as a lesson to be learned about yourself. What can you learn about the mistakes you made? Why did you stay in that relationship for so long? What will you do to avoid heartache and time wasted in the future?"
8. "Two days in. We hadn't gotten time to go on honeymoon yet; I came home from work earlier than planned and found him in bed with my maid of honor. Got an annulment as he’d consummated the marriage with someone else."
9. "My new wife didn’t come home for three days, and then she showed up and acted like it was no big deal. Lasted less than two weeks."
10. "Found out 29 days after the wedding that she had and was still in a six-month affair. Together 10 years, I had no idea in the slightest."
11. "When my ex-wife told me she wanted to marry me because I lived in the same city as her ex. It lasted 17 days in total."
12. "My cousin’s marriage lasted three weeks. She married a boyfriend of two months at 18 because he would get bonuses in the military if he was married, and he was going into the military. He quits and goes home three days later, they try to get her father to co-sign on a car, he won’t, they’re both broke, so they divorce. She tells me it was when he quit in three days that she started to get concerned. Three days, not even a week."
13. "My ex got married in her parent's backyard. After the ceremony, they went inside to change for the reception. Her new husband yells at her and then starts choking her. That was the end of it. He seemed like a nice guy until then."
14. "So, this isn't mine, but a friend's marriage lasted a few seconds. They got married, then some guy instantly came up and confessed to seeing the bride make out with another guy a few minutes before the wedding. It was all over after that."
15. "I went to a wedding where the groom was cheating on his wife-to-be. Turns out she was also having an affair. They divorced after a month. Personally, I thought they suited each other."
16. "I went to high school with a girl that got married in September 2016 after about six months of dating a guy. Come November, I noticed that she had changed her Facebook name back to her maiden name. I’m a nosy bitch, so I asked a mutual friend what happened. She informed me that in their short time of dating, they had never discussed politics, and when it came election time in November of 2016, they discovered one of them was far left and one of them was far right. They had a huge fight and then filed for divorce."
17. "My sister lasted six weeks with her husband. He became super controlling, broke down relationships with the family, and was super jealous of her close relationship with her brothers."
18. "My first marriage lasted six weeks. After the honeymoon, she started to get our place ready for her mother to move in, and her mother hated me because I was not of her race. She assured me things would be different once we got married, we would start our own lives, but I soon started to figure out that she just desperately wanted to get married. I happened to be the sucker that asked and went through."
"The first time I told her I think we had made a mistake, she flipped out, took a bottle of pills, and called 911. I made a great effort after that to try my hardest, but in the end, we simply wanted different things. It made it even harder that she was super hot, really sweet (when she wanted to be), and before we got married, an absolute joy to be around. As soon as she got the ring on her finger, she changed for the worst, coming up to my work and berating women I would have to talk to, screaming, 'HE'S A MARRIED MAN, AND NOT TO YOU!' I just chalk it up to, everyone makes mistakes in life, and thinking that you’re in love with whom you hope is the last person you’ll ever say 'I love you' to is one of them."
19. "When, after less than a month, I learned my new wife was having TWO separate affairs, both while we were engaged and after we had married."
