When making your wedding vows, you promise to stay with your partner through the good times and the bad, until death do you part. But that's not always how things play out.
To save others from making the same mistake, a group of divorcees have shared the moment they realised they'd married the wrong person. In a Reddit thread, one woman revealed how she came to realise her marriage was doomed before her wedding day even came to an end.
She said: "When he didn't mention me in his speech at our wedding. He thanked everyone else, commented on the bridesmaids, talked about our daughters. I may as well not have even been there. First night of our honeymoon, I got horrendously sick, and he left me alone in our room to go watch something on the big screen on the beach. So much for sickness and health."
But she isn't the only one who made the realisation just hours after saying her 'I dos', as one man shared how his wife was more interested in throwing a 'big party' than in him.
He said: "On the wedding day... She spent a fortune on unnecessary things, and I knew I'd be the one fitting the bill on the credit card she ran up.
"I told her no more, she said she wanted an ice cream vendor there (we already had two dessert bars). I told her it was not needed. She fought me on it but finally agreed.
"Wedding day comes, I'm standing with my groomsmen, in comes the ice cream truck. I knew right then, sadly."
While others came to realised their spouse treated them more like a 'parent' than a partner, wanting them to cook and clean up after them.
One user said: "When I asked for the most simple thing, please get up off your chair from playing video games to greet me when I'm home from working a 12 hour day. He never did it."
Another user added: "I waited on her hand and foot. Every night, brought her a tea. Checked every room to make sure there were no intruders, went to the store for her if she wanted a snack.
"One day I was really sick with the flu and asked if she'd get me a Gatorade from the store. She was shocked that I asked and said, 'Absolutely not'.
"Then I thought about it and realised that she had never complimented me, supported me, nurtured me, consoled me or showed any level of emotional care for me. I knew at that moment that she never would."
As expected, other relationships came crashing down when a third person entered the picture.
"He was messaging a side chick on our wedding day and boy did it go sideways from there," said one user.
Another user added: "When I got her to admit she was having an affair. 10 years married, two kids. What a mess.
"She followed it up a month or two later telling me she never loved a person like she does with new her partner. So welcome to divorce land. Population, me."
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