Story archives - tag: "marriage"

IF only

A barren womb may destroy more than just the dreams of a life that never will be.

tags: dreams life marriage infertility childlessness [add]

2008-07-21 16:12:01 / Rating: 31.25 /

April

The only intimacy that I can share with my husband are stolen touches in the span of two hours once a week.

tags: prison sex marriage [add]

2008-06-02 13:21:07 / Rating: 57 /

Whew!

I was ecstatic to see my husband NOT pour himself a drink when he got home from work.

tags: love marriage stress alcoholic? work sucks [add]

2008-05-30 10:04:59 / Rating: 70.5 /

L.L.

Though he thinks he's got me over a barrel because my religion won't allow me to divorce him, he's going to be very shocked when the papers get there next week.

tags: divorce marriage religion [add]

2008-05-13 12:00:59 / Rating: 188.75 /

BusyBee

In January we got married, in February we bought a house, in March we took in a 14-year-old boy, and in May I'll turn 22.

tags: life marriage fast [add]

2008-04-21 13:55:55 / Rating: 194.5 /

BWG

Despite what most people think, I didn't marry my wife because she is Chinese.

tags: marriage relationships ethnicity [add]

2008-03-25 10:40:18 / Rating: 109.25 /

Obsessive if it doesn't matter

My mother didn't realize that teaching me to fight, shoot, and play pool made it hard to find a boyfriend without tattoos.

tags: growing up mothers marriage [add]

2008-03-19 10:10:40 / Rating: 248 /

Patricia

When I tell people I'll be getting married at 22, they look at me as if they expected me to be more intelligent than that.

tags: marriage too young wisdom love doubt cynicism [add]

2008-03-10 10:13:16 / Rating: 187 /

Crazy Bob

When I told my wife what had happened, she laughed dismissively and said that the girl had probably learned how to do it at camp.

tags: marriage cheating [add]

2008-03-07 16:46:44 / Rating: 93.75 /

shiksa

As I opened the hotel room door to go meet him in the lobby, I knew that at that precise moment I was about to ruin my marriage.

tags: affair infidelity lover marriage divorce love [add]

2008-02-12 12:36:13 / Rating: 197.75 /

BigSis

Mom and Dad were separated prematurely as teenagers by her father, and it took a lifetime, several marriages and children for them to find each other again and be happy.

tags: marriage separation love happiness children [add]

2008-01-18 10:51:49 / Rating: 121.25 /

jal

It wasn't until after we broke up that I knew I'd marry him someday.

tags: boyfriend breakup marriage realization [add]

2008-01-14 17:38:25 / Rating: 136.5 /

Cornflake Girl

The moment she screamed at me the day after I became engaged to her son was when I realized I was getting much worse than the sterotypical mother-in-law.

tags: marriage in-laws [add]

2007-12-03 15:16:33 / Rating: 65 /

obsessed

"Staying together for the kids" gained a whole new meaning last night.

tags: marriage shock love betrayal [add]

2007-11-27 09:54:03 / Rating: 103.5 /

Theoretical Theory

After just two months, I want to marry her but I still haven't even told her that I love her.

tags: marriage love time [add]

2007-09-28 17:07:26 / Rating: 111.5 /

Carlota

We've been together for three years, but we don't consider ourselves lesbians.

tags: gay lesbian marriage [add]

2007-09-11 12:57:54 / Rating: 134 /

Lonely Girl

"Cheating" makes it sound like there's malice and intent to deceive, but it's really more "stepping out," where I just need some fresh air.

tags: marriage loneliness cheating [add]

2007-08-19 21:36:44 / Rating: 121.75 /

Scorpio

I cried as we were married, but he wanted the cheaper insurance rates.

tags: marriage [add]

2007-08-06 17:03:34 / Rating: 94.75 /

MJ Hawk

I asked him twice to get mustard, but he drove away from the window without even bothering.

tags: marriage heartbreak divorce fast food [add]

2007-07-06 09:52:18 / Rating: 179.5 /

Mrs. Jones

I can convince myself of anything, but it's a stretch to think that it's not cheating just because I'm no longer screwing you.

tags: love infidelity cheating marriage sex [add]

2007-07-02 14:32:02 / Rating: 117.75 /

At Least I'm Honest

Monogamy was never my forte.

tags: monogamy engaged engagement wedding marriage scared honest honesty unfaithful [add]

2007-06-26 16:57:25 / Rating: 170 /

World of WarCRACK Addict

When I told my husband we needed to go to WoWA (World of Warcraft Anonymous), he asked me if the website had good cheat codes.

tags: addict WoW love marriage [add]

2007-06-22 10:46:13 / Rating: 135.5 /

SheMac

Forty years ago at the bus stop, he said, "I don't know what else to do with you, so I guess I'd better marry you."

tags: marriage dating [add]

2007-06-21 10:00:12 / Rating: 177.25 /

BC

Even though I love him, I close my eyes and pretend I'm already asleep when he gets into bed.

tags: love marriage motherhood sleep husbands wives [add]

2007-06-21 09:34:26 / Rating: 164.25 /

Anonymous

When I got bold one day and kissed my best girlfriend on the lips, I realized I loved and longed for her, not my husband.

tags: marriage husband girlfriends [add]

2007-06-19 14:08:05 / Rating: 168.25 /

nuccleargirl

Hitting the turkey buzzard on the way to our wedding was the first indication we would never last.

tags: marriage disaster [add]

2007-06-18 23:55:35 / Rating: 567.5 /

Christine

I used to have nightmares that he would leave me, but now they are fantasies.

tags: marriage irony [add]

2007-06-15 17:31:44 / Rating: 245.5 /

mall_lamb

One week ago, he made me smile with a dozen different colored roses and this morning, my husband made me cry by walking past me out the door without as much as a goodbye.

tags: marriage cry smile roses husband [add]

2007-06-11 09:46:21 / Rating: 128 /

cupcake

One of the things that brought us together was our mutual dislike of marriage and children, yet the more I got to know him the more I thought I might not be totally opposed to them if they happened with him.

tags: children marriage common interests bugger [add]

2007-06-08 18:00:54 / Rating: 204.25 /

BealzesBud

I got back together with my unfaithful wife when my online lovers decided they didn't want to be in a family with me after all.

tags: relationships marriage love [add]

2007-06-08 18:00:09 / Rating: 109.75 /

Ophelia

My husband's new best friend is the guy I lost my virginity to, 21 years ago.

tags: virginity marriage ex-boyfriend [add]

2007-06-05 17:17:15 / Rating: 228.5 /

Pearl

Sometimes, weddings where you don't know anyone are worse than funerals where you know who's in the coffin.

tags: strangers death loneliness depression marriage [add]

2007-05-29 15:58:04 / Rating: 164.5 /

never the bride

He told me as far as he was concerned we were married, then he died of AIDS.

tags: marriage illness [add]

2007-05-17 13:49:53 / Rating: 141.25 /

Ross

When she couldn't stare me in the eye's while saying her vows, I knew then, I loved the wrong one.

tags: marriage love relationships [add]

2007-03-28 17:02:07 / Rating: 221.5 /

timmy

During my final exam, I plan to ask my girlfriend/professor to marry me.

tags: college professor sex marriage love secret [add]

2007-03-27 15:13:22 / Rating: 198.75 /

JT

After 10 years of listening to him mourn it turned out his first wife wasn't dead, she'd left him.

tags: lies marriage betrayal [add]

2007-03-16 13:42:35 / Rating: 150.5 /

ArabyBay

Counting the words on the Absolut bottle was my mantra as I awaited the arrival of the coroner.

tags: death marriage [add]

2007-02-27 09:33:34 / Rating: 172.75 /

fallen phoenix

I am pregnant with my husband's child, so I will never get to be with the man who is the mirror of my soul.

tags: romance pregnant marriage [add]

2007-02-23 09:16:49 / Rating: 237.25 /

MIA Robin

I was suddenly uninvited from my step daughter's wedding so the man who had brutalized her mother for 25 years could show up in a borrowed suit and later depart after the reception without even saying goodbye to anyone.

tags: marriage abandonment pain loss exclusion [add]

2006-12-11 20:24:32 / Rating: 198 /

WilsonOfPrussia

I used to have a lot of space and no wife, now I have no space and a lot of wife.

tags: marriage [add]

2006-10-11 11:14:40 / Rating: 135.25 /

Reba

I never thought that laughing into another man's shoulder would classify me as a whore.

tags: jealousy marriage [add]

2006-10-11 10:57:35 / Rating: 128 /

Emerie

When I told my husband of 17 years that I didn't think he knew me and I wanted a divorce, he asked me "Are you a lesbian?"

tags: divorce humor marriage [add]

2006-09-27 23:19:16 / Rating: 193 /

hollymolly

It wasn't until my 3rd marriage proposal in 2 months at the ripe old age of 12 that i decided living in an orphanage in Venezuela wasn't going to be so bad after all.

tags: childhood Venezuela orphanage marriage proposal [add]

2006-09-26 22:39:11 / Rating: 185.25 /

SD

He asked me if I would marry him, and it was then, the second I said yes, I knew that he was not the love of my life.

tags: love life learning marriage [add]

2006-09-26 10:51:14 / Rating: 198.25 /

DarklyScanned

This month began blackly with a death and ended radiantly with a marriage.

tags: marriage death life [add]

2006-09-21 21:36:20 / Rating: 162.75 /

Alex

I now work for the TV production company who produced the programme on which I met my wife.

tags: love marriage tv [add]

2006-09-11 10:40:22 / Rating: 124.25 /

Kevin Dewell

I'm getting married in 12 hours, I can't sleep, and I couldn't be happier.

tags: marriage [add]

2006-09-09 13:57:52 / Rating: 266.5 /

clementine

I thought it would be wonderful; twenty years later my life is shattered.

tags: marriage children time expectations [add]

2006-08-18 09:44:55 / Rating: 167.75 /

Mindy G.

She knows their hearts belong together and she knows how lucky she is.

tags: mcg mlwg relationships marriage [add]

2006-08-18 00:04:05 / Rating: 140.75 /

Michael

We're going to marry, she simply doesn't know it yet.

tags: mlwg marriage relationships [add]

2006-08-17 17:30:55 / Rating: 184.5 /

Shannon

I should have known it was doomed when we fought desperately on our honeymoon.

tags: relationships marriage [add]

2006-08-14 19:31:15 / Rating: 142.25 /

Daniel

"It'll never work," he said -- the friend who gave me confidence, courage and class -- but, three years later, I'm marrying her, and I'm the happiest man alive.

tags: love relationships marriage [add]

2006-08-12 17:44:20 / Rating: 149.25 /

Duane

My wife pushed, the baby squalled, and I knew at that moment that the little girl was not mine.

tags: marriage birth [add]

2006-08-10 13:38:33 / Rating: 150.25 /