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(#16) He Relapsed After Rehab
From Redditor /u/LovingDatDee:
When [my] addict husband several months out of rehab took my vehicle one morning and returned with [substances] he'd obtained from his secret post office box.
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(#5) Their Husband Bought A Super Bowl Ticket Instead Of A Bed For Their Child
From Redditor /u/Im_Phoenix:
When my ex husband told me that I should hold off on buying our kid a bed. He then turned right around and spent $14,000 on superbowl tickets. I couldn't and still can't get over that.
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(#19) A Cup Of Coffee Woke Them Up To The Truth
From Redditor /u/PhilyMick67:
One morning I was drinking coffee alone on the couch and I heard my wife getting out of bed and my first thought was, "F*ck I wanted her to sleep longer so I didn't have to be around her." We had been having a lot of issues that I ignored, I kinda hadn't noticed that I had been waking up at the crack of dawn every weekend (for almost a year) so I could just not be around her. That morning it became obvious. We split up.
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(#12) He Wanted Children - With Someone Else
From Redditor /u/ilulisaat:
He said, "I want children, just not with you." [We've been] married eight years and I don't know what to do.
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(#1) She Became Too Much Like Her Mom
From Redditor /u/gdon88:
There wasn’t one specific moment but rather a long, gradual progression. She stopped caring about us. [She] focuses on the kids, on her work, on everybody and everything else. She admires her parents and now she’s becoming her mom. She stopped being the person I married and fell in love with and is now adopting the views and personality of a grandma. She’s literally becoming a sexless, no passion, grandma. She has no hobbies or interest of her own. Over the years she’s become overweight and our sex life couldn’t be more boring. If we have sex, there’s no foreplay. It’s missionary and it’s an in and out and your done kind of experience. [There are] lots of rules about what I can and can’t do. The “can” list is very short.
We’ve gone to couples counseling - have seen three different counselors over the years. We are now going to individual AND couples counseling. She forgets everything we learn the second she walks out of the session. Instead, as a conservative Christian, she just wants to pray about our marriage. Meanwhile she loses [it] when I communicate my needs and feelings. [She] doesn’t want to hear it. [She] wants me to “figure out what’s wrong with you.” I always lift her up and tell her how beautiful she is but she is an anomaly. At once, she feels bad about herself physically, but she is so entitled that she doesn’t take a lot of responsibility for our situation. She just likes to call me a “miserable person” who is “destined to [end up] alone.”
We’ve gone through these patterns over the years and have managed to make up without actually resolving the issues. That’s only because I usually give in and take responsibility even though sometimes I’m not to blame. But now I’ve stopped doing that. She can’t handle it. I’ve mentioned divorce or even seeing other people. My heart has been hardened over time and I no longer get upset. I just engage her in conversation that attempts to solve the issue but with her temper, she just loses [it]. She can’t deal with difficult problems without getting angry. She’s gotten in my face, screaming red faced to the point I can feel her hot breath and spit on my face. I walk away. I used to yell back but now I just don’t care.
We are together for the kids at this point. She punishes me by withholding sex. I guess her thinking is 'if he’s so unhappy with our sex life maybe he’ll appreciate what he does get if I deprive him at all.' Idk. It used to work but now it doesn’t. I’m thankful for our wonderful kids and I don’t regret the circumstances that brought them into the world but I do think my marriage is over. I worry about the affect a divorce will have on them. It’s all I think about all day every day. It just sucks that we both say we want to fix it, but she isn’t doing [anything] except blaming me. In her mind if I wasn’t such a miserable person none this would be an issue.
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(#15) She Realized How Critical He Was
From Redditor /u/localgyro:
It's complicated. We'd been married for 15 years, and things were rocky. My husband had always been a bit critical, but it really picked up steam in recent years and contributed to my depression. Due to some family issues, I spent a lot more time with my parents than usual, and ended up realizing that I'd married a man much more like my father than I had ever intended to. Watching my parents interact was like looking into my future marriage, and I didn't like what I saw.
I went back. I tried to work on it. My husband was about as willing to negotiate as my father would have been under the same circumstances. I stopped believing in his good intentions and desire to be equal partners, despite what he said.
No one saw the little emotional undercutting or negging that happened when we were in private. He would say the right things in public, but I stopped believing that other people saw our "real" relationship and started trusting my own experience.
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