42 Things That Weren’t Mentioned Until After The Marriage Certificate Was Signed

Credit card and student loan debt. It was north of $50k. She was making $9 per hour at the time. Took me years to get that down and she never appreciated the effort.

Herpes. Wish I was kidding. Found out from her obstetrician when she was six months pregnant and we went in for an appointment and his first question to her was, "How's the herpes, any flare ups?".

I promise you this is legit. My wife just revealed to me she is terrified of Baha Men's "Who Let The Dogs Out". She says they sound very angry and it makes her very upset. I wouldn't say she HID this from me....but it's an interesting development.

That he is not comfortable with me wearing a two-piece swimsuit. He is a Muslim from Iran, I am an American living in Texas, he knew perfectly well I would not be fine with this. It has been our only serious fight.

That he was cheating on me with a friend I thought was a lesbian. He invited her to the wedding.

She showed up with her latest girlfriend (who was uninvited). It was arranged seating and I'd stick her next to a group of mutual friends. Turned out she had slept with nearly every person at that table (men and women), and they all found out about it. Her girlfriend and her got into a fist fight and then left.

Nearly two years later and I'm still married to that a*****e. We separated (for the second time) a week ago after I found his latest Tinder account and the dates he'd been planning with random women for when I'd be at work.

My husband and his friend came up with a plan to catch his friend's wife cheating. My husband slept with his friends wife and friend 'caught' them. She got pregnant and during the divorce found out the baby was my husband's. Found this out after 7 years and 3 kids.

That he was a binge drinker and high functioning alcoholic. He would hide the empty beer cans in the basement. When I found all the can stashes, 1 month after our wedding, they filled two large garbage bags. Like he drank a case of beer a night!

My wife had been sleeping with her ex while we dated. I found out just before the wedding. As in the day before.

She told her friends that she would one day marry me and kept referring me as her husband.... 10 years before we first talked to each other, 13 years before our wedding day.

I learned about it on our wedding party from her old friends.

My wife was actually 7 years older than she claimed to be. I was mildly surprised when I found out; that was about it.

Edit: Surprised how many questions this generated.
(1)Some people said it should be easy to tell..But she's asian and tiny (About 4'10") and looks young for her age.
(2) Yes, I still would have married her. Difference between 28 and 35 didn't worry me a whole lot. I was 44 myself. However, *if* the difference had moved her into menopause...for example, from 40 to 47 .... then no, I probably wouldn't have. I actually wanted to have children.
(3) The topic never really came up. It wasn't until we were doing some paperwork for the children that the discrepancy came to light.

My wife didn't know I liked pro wrestling. This was a bigger deal than you think.

Fairly minor, but my wife can't watch sitcoms. Not because she thinks they're stupid, or just not funny, but because she gets embarrassed by the situations in the shows. Situations that actors are acting out as fictional people, and she gfs embarrassed. It's weird. So I can't watch Scrubs, the Office, or Futurama unless she's out and I'm at home.

EDIT: Yes, Scott's Tots is awful. Even I can't watch it. I've heard Curb Your Enthusiasm is awful, as well. I would like to watch it, but I'm fairly certain it would k**l my wife. I'll be ignoring all the suggestions about what to get her to watch, sorry. Although I will probably check them out at some point.

My spouse came out as trans 3 months after we got married.

My husband led me to believe he already has his Master's degree and was working at a University, when in reality there was a hold up with his degree and his role as an educator was limited to that of a grad student... He did receive his MA but it was three years into our marriage.

That he slept with one of my bridesmaids (who was his friend) years before we met. I wanted to bring it up to her and ask her how she thought he was in bed as a joke but decided it would probably make her too uncomfortable and lose the intended humor.

Gender disphoria.
I think things would've gone a lot better if my husband hasn't been hiding from *her*self through almost two decades of married life and two babies. Being left because I represented her old life to much really sucked, but I'm a hell of a lot better off now and my kids just go off with a strange aunt-like person every other weekend or so.

That he likes to watch sports. It's such a silly thing to hide. He even sneak watched it for the first year or so into our marriage.

I'm the uptight one in the relationship. This is going to sound really petty and like it shouldn't be a big deal.

A few years after we got married (together about 6-8 years maybe?) I found out he can't stand it when someone opens a bag of chips upside down. I do this on purpose because then all the crumbs disperse equally throughout and you don't get that pile of chip glitter at the end. He conceded that this worked perfectly, but insisted that we keep the chip bags upside down so that when you open it right side up, it works the same.
He was really bothered by this as if I was violating the laws of common decency. I think he would have been less disturbed if I s**t on the floor next to the toilet instead of in it.

Was just shocking to find he had such passionate view over something so mundane when typically I am the more rigid one. And yes, I still open bags upside down and make sure I draw his attention to it. He's my little freak.

Debt to a family member that came calling a couple years in. Not a crippling amount, but that wasn't a pleasant surprise.

That she was a man hating narcissist. She needed a man with whom she could have children, I fit the bill. As soon as she had them, I was no longer needed. She made my life miserable for 20 more years. We divorced and I'm finally happy again.