One Year
She kept up the bridezilla attitude even after the wedding—it was unbearable. A year after the big day, we were divorced, and her parents were still paying off the loan they took for the dream wedding. This is what happens when you spoil your little girl and give her everything she demands her whole life.
Emptiness
After the wedding, my ex-wife’s life felt completely empty. The two years before had been all about celebrating our engagement and planning the wedding, with her full attention on that event. I was relieved when the nightmare was finally over and hoped she’d be herself again—but that didn’t happen. Instead, she became obsessed with having a child immediately. The problem was, we agreed to wait until we were at least 28 years old, which was still three years away. We were drowning in wedding debt that wiped us out financially, living in a rental, and she wasn’t working. I didn’t want to have a child under those conditions. I didn’t trust that she was taking birth control, so I always used a condom. I knew I had to leave when I saw her pull a used condom out of the trash and put it on herself.
Care
Once the wedding excitement died down, she became distant and cold. She didn’t want sex, didn’t cook, didn’t do anything—just binge-watched TV shows. (I supported her financially; she didn’t have to do a thing.) She refused to go hiking, meet friends, or even eat out. It was like the wedding was the highlight of her life, and now that she’d reached that goal, nothing else mattered. After eight months, I filed for divorce.
Imitation
Six months after the wedding, I found out she’d been cheating on me with a coworker—who, by the way, was married with three kids. When I asked why she married me, she said, "She wanted a big party where she was the center of attention."
Expectations
Even our honeymoon was a disaster. She kept showing her monster side from the wedding, and I had been hoping it was just stress from all the planning. When we got home, we fought constantly, and during one argument, she told me she only married me because her parents liked that I came from a good family and had money. The next day, I went to my lawyer to discuss the divorce.
Groomzilla
As a gay couple, we married in Luxembourg, and I can say it’s not just women who can turn into monsters—men can too. Even in the weeks before the wedding, my fiancé’s behavior was questionable, but I hoped it would change. Sadly, it didn’t—I lasted only a year with him. He finally admitted he only wanted the wedding because "I look good and he knew we’d get beautiful photos."
Perfection
Everything had to be perfect at the wedding, so—stupid me—I let the celebration completely drain our bank accounts. That pattern continued: I earned decently, but he spent more than we could afford every month. When I asked him to rein it in, he threw a huge tantrum, so I just let it go. Two years later, broke and exhausted, I divorced him. He took all the expensive stuff he’d collected during our marriage. Just the kitchen gadgets alone were worth tens of thousands of dollars.
Shock
It turned out the priest was a family friend, and the officiant was also an acquaintance, so the papers we signed weren’t even official. Months after my wedding, I found out I wasn’t legally married at all. He just fell in love with a wedding dress and planned the whole event because of that.
Promises
I asked for just two things at the wedding: for my best friend to give a toast and for a beer tap. Even though I paid for the multi-thousand-dollar event, neither request was fulfilled—and that selfish attitude carried into married life. No compromises, just whatever she wanted. Two years later, I’d had enough. By then, of course, she was begging and promising, but I no longer believed her.
Mistakes
She told me she hated my tattoos and that not only could I not get any more, but I had to have the existing ones removed. I wasn’t allowed to listen to metal music at home anymore, and I had to sell my guitars. She cleared out my music studio because it was going to become the baby’s room. I had no idea who I’d married—before the wedding, she acted like she loved me.
