Those Marital Misadventures

Those Marital

Misadventures

compiled by Cheryl Lakes

Phoebe, Dallas – “In the last 5 years, I’ve spent hundreds of dollars on wedding gifts, bridesmaid’s dresses, rehearsal suits, etc, and not one of the couples who became betrothed before my eyes, is still with their partner.  One friend married a man who confessed to her on the eve of the wedding, that he was bi-sexual, and could not commit to fidelity, and she still married him.  Her excuse was that she didn’t want to be embarrassed at the church by calling the wedding off.”

Tyra, St. Louis  – “My very successful sister almost got married last year to a guy she was crazy about.  He led her to believe that she was his soulmate from heaven.  However, two days before the wedding, she overheard him telling his best friend, that he was strictly marrying for money.  She called off the wedding.  But she never told him why.  He ended up begging her to marry him because his family had come from all over the country for the wedding.  But she refused.                                             

Kay, Chicago – “My friend married a college sweetheart from the past, and he shot her in the head during an argument seven weeks after they married.  She survived, but she was warned to call the wedding off when her grandmother told her she’d had a bad dream about him.  But she wanted so badly to be married. It came out later that he had been released from prison three years before for murdering his first wife.”                                         

Susan, Baltimore – “I married a man who drove up to the church with his ex-girlfriend in the car.  I hadn’t been able to find him all night, and I guessed where he’d been, but I went through with the wedding anyway, because I hoped he would change after we married.  I also rationalized that if he didn’t love me, he wouldn’t have shown up at the church.  But I was wrong.  He stayed with me for a month, and then asked for an annulment so he could marry his ex..”

Gina, Brooklyn – “A cousin, who had been married to what she called, “a wonderful man” committed murder two years ago when she caught her husband in bed at their home with his ex-wife.  They had been married for three monthsShe is currently in prison..  This same woman had plagued their relationship for years, but my friend refused to let go, because she wanted to win, and in the end, she lost big time.