31 Wedding Day Red Flags That Your Marriage Won’t Last

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“So many red flags I ignored. The day we got engaged, we got into a fight because he already told his mother we would get married in his church without discussing it with me. During the wedding planning, he helped with nothing and criticized every idea I brought to him. I wanted to spend the night before our wedding in the hotel of our venue where our family was staying, and I told him I’d get him a room so we could do the traditional not-see-each-other thing. He freaked out about it and refused, so he stayed home alone. He barely smiled or looked at me during the ceremony and only danced our first dance with me at the reception.”

“The biggest omen, though, was right before we were set to leave on our honeymoon, we get a call that there was a major explosion at our hotel that killed four people. The hotel was still open, and if we changed or canceled, we would lose a lot of money, so we went and spent 10 days terrified and anxious because no one would tell us what was going on. We also fought because he wanted to go to town and find drugs. He got more and more emotionally abusive as the marriage went on, and I eventually divorced him. I’m out now and with a wonderful man, but looking back, I want to smack my younger self for being so oblivious.”

—kristivel