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She ended up in jail that night for hitting my brother. I did the pictures for the wedding because it was his 3rd wedding. Low budget.
I put together a photo album for the family with her mugshot as the last picture.
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Got married for a visa to be able move to china with my husband whom I'd been with for 12 years since the first week of university. A month later he left for china and I was gonna join him when I found a job but I immediately realised how much happier I was without him. One day, 5 months after he left, I kind of woke up and realised he'd been emotionally violent. That he'd forced me to be intimate with him on multiple occasions, properly hit me a few times but physically hurt me often, shouted at me daily and that he isolated me from my family and friends. I grew up in a bad family so I just sort of blocked out the worst of it and carried on. It took being alone for the first time to feel safe enough to process a whole lifetime of trauma. I flew to China to break up with him and he acted like I was going to change my mind even as I tearfully left for the airport.
Years later I'm with the most peaceful, kind man I've ever met, we have a bunch of wonderful friends and we hang out with my good family members all the time. Life is good when you don't have the wrong people in it.
There is no one set time for how long a couple has to be together before tying the knot. According to this poll, on average, modern couples tend to spend quite a lot of time together before getting married – around 4.9 years.
That’s due to the fact that people like to get to know their significant other in all the good and the bad before committing to them legally. After all, you cannot really learn everything about a person within a few months or so; such knowledge only comes with time and various experiences.
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And the thing is that this approach is kind of working. According to the study, which surveyed 3,000 married folks, the likelihood of divorce decreases by 50% when a couple dates for 3 or more years before getting engaged.
Still, dating for such a relatively long time doesn’t inherently guarantee a long and successful marriage; people who spend more than half of their lives together still end up separating.
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EDIT: Since everyone keeps pointing it out - I don't know if they did or didn't sign the marriage license, so they may or may not have been legally married, but they broke up and went their separate ways immediately after the wedding.
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Two months later, I was with my best friend out at the bar when he was like "Oh no, don't look over at that table." Of course I looked, but didn't recognize who was sitting there. My friend was like "That's Jane's ex-husband. Remember? We were at their wedding."
I was like... "EX husband? But like... that was two months ago?"
Apparently they broke up a few weeks after the wedding. I don't know why.
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And sometimes it takes even less time for the marriage to end. Just take a look at today’s list – it’s full of marriages that can barely be called that due to how short they were. From 6 months to 3 weeks to 55 hours (looking at you Britney Spears and Jason Alexander)... It all depends on what you consider a short period of time, but neither of these screams “long marriage”, do they?
Interestingly, it’s said that the shortest recorded marriage took only 3 minutes… Can you imagine? Just 3 minutes! This took place back in 2024 in Kuwait. Apparently, when the couple was walking out after the ceremony, the bride tripped and heard her new husband mocking her.
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Some guy I worked with had a kid with his girlfriend. A year or so later they got married, proper wedding with friends and family.
The next morning they’d put a Facebook post up saying that they’ve decided not to stay together and were separating.
Since divorced.
This was enough of a reason for her to go to the judge and ask for annulment of their contract. Basically, they didn’t even make it out of their wedding ceremony as newlyweds before it was called off. Ouch! At the same time, maybe she dodged a bullet – what kind of man makes fun of his wife in such a precious occasion, even if she trips?
Well, reasonable or not, short marriages typically aren’t that short. Again, it all depends on how you look at it. Even a year isn’t that much in the grand scheme of things but imagine getting stuck with a person you know you don’t belong with, or even worse, you can’t stand for a year. That’s such a long time! Even half of this time doesn’t seem pleasant in such a case.
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55 hours.
Edit: Honorable mention, Kim K lasting 72 days.
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So, while short marriages might seem rather entertaining looking from the side, sometimes they have rational reasons to happen this way.
What is the shortest marriage you know of? If you’re open to it, please share about it in the comments!
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Another cousin married a guy and he completely took down the mask after the wedding. Stopped working, stopped doing anything around the house, then started being mean, etc. She found out he had a bunch of secrets, including legal trouble in another state. I wanna say it took about 6 months til the divorce was final.
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