“He Was Charged With First-Degree Felony Larceny”: People Who Divorced After Less Than A Year Of Marriage Are Sharing Why

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“I really suspect he only married me to go on the honeymoon. Shortly after we got married, he developed an allergy. To what, I don’t know, but I know it was real. He was unable to work due to his allergy. He had to take medicine. Then, he was diagnosed with COPD. He started taking medicine for that and was feeling better. I started talking about him going back to work, and suddenly, he was sick again. He confessed, right before Christmas, that he had stopped taking the medicine due to finances.”

“His mother was a huge issue in our relationship. Prior to marriage, I thought we were on the same page. Whenever his mom treated me badly, he would acknowledge that her behavior was wrong. After we were married, right around Christmas time, he actually said to me, ‘We’re married now. There is nothing you can do about it, so just get used to it and deal with it.’

He was lazy. I would work all day, come home, and no household chores would be done. He would leave as soon as I got home to go to the store to get food for dinner.

The final straw was one night when I got up to use the bathroom, and when I came back to bed, I saw his phone lit up. Thinking someone was trying to call him, I looked at his phone. I found out he had been texting and messaging other women. I confronted him about it, and he said they were his online friends from some of the games he played on his phone. I told him if he can’t talk to his ‘friends’ in front of me, something is wrong. I told him I wanted to go to marriage counseling in November of that year. I brought it up again in December; he said he wasn’t going and wasn’t doing anything wrong. I looked at his phone, and he was talking badly about me to his female friends. I waited until after Christmas to tell him I wanted a divorce. His parents and brother came over to our place for Christmas and would only speak to me if I spoke to them.

We were divorced almost a year to the day after we were married. He moved back in with his parents, and one of his ‘friends’ moved into their house to be with him. I met a great guy right after my divorce was finalized. I don’t have any contact with my ex-husband, and I’m not sorry.

—u/springsummerfall2016