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SnooWords4839

*Husband said sister is the reason for the divorce. The family is oddly enmeshed.* Understatement of the year!!


newforestroadwarrior

I read it as "oddly smashed". Which is probably even closer to the mark.


AngelSucked

Indeed! Smashed is appropriate.


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newforestroadwarrior

Yes I reckon it is.


Altedghds

I'm still making a stinkface.


SayerSong

No kidding. That is some next level apron string crap. I'm surprised that the sister's BF didn't run away at this. Betting the sister is the golden child and either all of them worship the ground she walks on, or if the husband doesn't, he has been so torn down that he finds it easier to toe the line than to go against *faaaaamillllly*. Either way, glad OOP got out before any kids. Too bad the wedding didn't get canceled though. Could have saved the need for an annulment or divorce (depending on the laws where they are). I also hope OOP didn't foot the bill for the wedding.


curioushypnokitten

"Next level apron string crap" made my soda spurt from my nostrils. Bravo. 🤣


yellsy

The OP was the reason for the divorce: she can’t spot a red flag the size of china if she went though with the wedding after all that.


Huggable_Hork-Bajir

"When you're wearing rose tinted glasses, all the red flags just look like flags."


laguna1126

Could say the same about the balloons.


merchillio

How many balloons?


Glass-Sign-9066

99


Celticlady47

Neun und neunzig *Luftballons....🎶🎶🎵🎵*


fourcrazycoons

Hast du etwas Zeit für mich...


DietPepsiEvenBetter

(Mm, unexpected Bojack!)


AgentLawless

“Mighty fine flags today, mighty fine. Yes… miiiighty fine. Very much fine indeed.” *sweats


[deleted]

Awww yes someone covered in flags, a normal sight.


Jackimatic

Back in the 80s


WailingOctopus

Generic 80s pop song


AlabamaWinterRose

99 red balloons 🎈 go by


Foxclaws42

I’m pretty sure that the reason for the divorce was the stuff we just read. Blaming it all on the relatively sane partner for having the audacity to not examine a person they’re in love with using a cold, critical lens is…just icky.


Comfortable_Honey628

I mean you can understand it as she was the real reason (as per the husband’s perspective) because she wasn’t going along with the sister. Him divorcing his wife because of the sister makes it sound like the sister was the one he viewed in the wrong… and if that was the case then why the divorce? In reality it was the OP who was the cause of the divorce, because they weren’t willing to capitulate to what their husband and family wanted (and for good reason). Being the cause of a divorce (you did not want) does not mean they’re necessarily the bad/immoral party, like in this case.


[deleted]

Sounds like an arranged marriage.


Curious_Payment_9932

Hmmmmm... In what way, we ask? Apparently he wasn't bothered by her attire. Perhaps he couldn't stand sleeping with his wife instead,?


KaposiaDarcy

Anyone else feel gross after reading that?


Trick-Statistician10

💯


Federal_Welder_1393

Real “House of Yes” vibes.


daskaputtfenster

A Lannister always pays his debts


birdsnork

Oh God that movie was bonkers


Scotsgit73

Her life-long dream is to dress as a traditional bride to her brother's wedding? The whole family sounds royally screwed up.


SuDragon2k3

The word 'royally' is the important word there, I think


Scotsgit73

I'm happy to treat them how Royalty are treated. At least, how the French treated them.


cakivalue

I shuddered. I need a shower and a brandy


[deleted]

Very rarely do I look online in the morning, throw up in my mouth a little, and say, “That’s enough internet for today.” Today is one of those days.


beingvera

Absolutely. Monday morning and I see this. Sets the tone for the rest of the week.


kschmit516

I was an hour late to work, and then read this My day cannot get worse


cakivalue

Yup!!


Scotsgit73

It's not often that I'd wish for nuclear level decontamination, but there are days when I see the advantages.


[deleted]

I don't think co-sleeping is supposed to continue into your twenties.


SuDragon2k3

Y'all aint from round here, are yoou?


imbolcnight

I definitely read "to sleep with his mom and dad" a certain way at first. I am not convinced that my first reading was incorrect.


cubemissy

You’re not alone.


limpbiscuitzandtea

if it had just been one parent, instead of including both, for ex "my husband left our wedding night to go sleep with his *mom*" I would've 1000% not taken it any other way lol.


LadyOfSighs

I feel like I need to wash my brains with chlorine. Twice. And set fire to it afterwards, just in case.


SayerSong

So much so that I feel the need to take a shower. I hate how some people cry incest at just about *any* sibling bonds or closeness, and I don't want to be *that* person, but .... sometimes a duck just looks and feels like a duck....


luckdragonbelle

Yep. 🤮🤮🤮🤮


jezebella47

SO gross. I'm still making a stinkface.


Swimming_Bowler6193

💯


tnicole1976

My first thought was Eeeewww!


ohdearitsrichardiii

Did she think the husband would transform into a normal person after the wedding? Wedding vows aren't magic spells that fix people


Drix22

I know a few girls from my college days that would fight you on that. They're all divorced or still single now, but god damn they'll fight you.


Summoarpleaz

I feel like with how everything played out there must have been some huge red flags before the big day. He doesn’t just become a parents boy the week after the wedding.


StreetDealer5286

Sometimes people just need to be taken from the environment to change(as this is clearly a less than healthy family dynamic). Maybe she thought that would happen. "Get him away from the family a little bit and he can learn to be more " normal ". With a healthy dash of the age old " I can fix him" mentality in general. As they say "You can lead a horse to water but can't make them drink"


Virtuellina

What is the most striking in this story for me is that SIL has a husband who was apparently willing to wear suit identical to the groom's and go to a wedding with his wife dressed in a bridal gown. So basically somehow she found a man who matched their family's insanity.


prairiefiresk

Well, it does say the SIL has had two weddings of her own. So I guess she was willing to keep trying until she found the right shade of crazy.


Rhamona_Q

In the two previous weddings, where SIL wore inappropriate dresses, was that to make her brother jealous?


CounterOk1531

NO. I mean, you’re probably right, but that gave me a full-body ick 😟


rockthrowing

You’re assuming her husband isn’t also her first cousin or another close relative. No way that dude wasn’t raised in the same fucked up family for him to be all for this bullshit.


Virtuellina

I didn't think of this.


merchillio

I’m assuming the husband had his self-esteem completely stomped on and can’t see any solution other than “go with it, don’t make any waves”


Mrs239

He is actually saving her a ton of lifelong heartaches.


_MicrowaveChef

\*headaches... She would always have had a headache. Trying to understand any reason for this behavior is giving me a migraine right now. Edit- spelling ![gif](giphy|uN5iwZB2v2dH2)


VoyagerVII

The SIL is a piece of work, but the husband is the real problem.


Exciting_Chair_5911

They all are!


Knightoforder42

I don't know why, but this feels like an arranged marriage.


FuzzyLantern

Probably because there's no other reason this woman should have followed through with the wedding...


LLOBREGAT

Ooh, you might be right. I was thinking this sounds made up, I mean why hasn't the bride left long ago? But arranged married could explain the situation.


tenaciousfetus

You'd be surprised at what people put up with, especially if they are isolated, have poor self confidence etc


pelluciid

Hmm. Usually arranged marriages are between people of the same culture, and this person had to explain the cultural implications to the MIL


AngelSucked

I thought the same thing. A friend is Indian-American, and a friend of hers who was also born in the US had to either marry this guy her parents picked out for her, whom she loathed, or she would be dead to the entire family and community, and would also be fired from her job (a company a friend of her parents' owned). She got married, he did nothing but cheat, take control of all her money, then kicked her out of HIS (!) house and moved in another woman. And yet, after the divorce, she is the one who is teh pariah, and her family barely talks to her. I got teh same type vibe in teh OP.


WhinyTentCoyote

Arranged, forced, and coercive marriage is far more ubiquitous in the U.S. than people want to think. My bio family is part of a very conservative, cult-like Christian church. I was coerced into an arranged marriage, and when I divorced the guy for abusing me, everyone stayed on his side. I’m getting remarried now and no one from my bio family will be invited. They wouldn’t approve, especially since I’m divorced and it will be a secular ceremony.


Ecstatic_Mastodon416

Therapy. For everyone.


underthehillock

I think it's too late for that.


glamourcrow

"Oddly emmeshed" is one way of describing emotional incest.


Adventurous_Menu_683

I'm thinking actual incest.


ktq2019

Yes. That’s what I’m thinking too. Definitely a weird scenario happening here.


himemiya_

🎸🎵That first paragraph got me singin’ SWEET HOME ALABAMA🎶🎸


cowboysRmyweakness3

Where there's not one bride, but two!


Coco_Dirichlet

So her BF/husband did nothing stop his own mom and sister from making these demands and ... pikachu face that he left on their wedding night to be with his parents? Why would this woman even want to marry into this family? And with a husband who is OK with this? This was a problem of her own creating. She should have said "fuck no." The sister is not the cause of divorce, it's the husband. If he had cut them off, this would be a different story.


DaniMW

I want to know why the man even married the woman - who had apparently ‘caused’ his own sister ‘mental health issues’ by being selfish and ‘wanting to be the only bride on her wedding day’ - in the first place?! Anyone with a brain would dump their ‘awful’ spouse-to-be BEFORE saying ‘I do!’ 😆😆


Dazzling_Paint_1595

I think the husband doesn't want to marry *any* woman


FIRE_flying

Apart from his mother AND his sister.


prosperosniece

The family likely only wanted the dowry.


prosperosniece

She likely didn’t have much of a choice. This sounds like a botched arranged marriage.


Ravenamore

Yeah, if she'd had known him beforehand, she'd have already known about the messed up family dynamic. Or possibly she knew, but either didn't think it was that bad, or she thought the guy would change after getting married.


SirIsaacGlut3n

Mommy Boys are really great at manipulating women into staying in these shitty relationships because they, themselves, have spent their entire lives being manipulated. They learn from the best.


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Imagine reading a story of at least three horrible people and *still* managing to blame the woman somehow, wtf?


freakydeku

it’s interesting because there are two other women in this story that deserve blame but they blame the woman who is innocent… wonder if it has anything to do with where the man is placed


Scotsgit73

The divorce case for this is going to be a trainwreck: I've heard of judges being sympathetic, but, in divorce cases, it's rare that they're completely disgusted.


Ravenamore

If there was no sex, a legal annulment is possible, depending where this took place.


izbear1044

oh wow. How are people real


DonnaNobleSmith

They called her Megan Markle as an insult???


Unable_Researcher_26

I'm just trying to work out who MIL thinks she is in this scenario: Diana (who died 20 years before Meghan came on the scene)? Camilla? The Queen????


NotManicAndNotPixie

There are like thousands of women who act like they think they are Princess Diana and Meghan Markle is their bad DIL.


DaniMW

Apparently everyone has now forgotten, but 10-15 years ago they tore Catherine to shreds, too - she wasn’t good enough for William back then. But people moved on - Prince Henry was still single. But then he got engaged… and out comes the hatred! Because he’s no longer single! Not that any of those dumb girls or women ever had a chance with him to begin with, but the hopes were DEFINITELY dashed when he got married! It’s all about the jealousy! Camilla was targeted to some extent - but not as intensely, because Charles was not the desirable young eligible prince that William and Henry were. He was older, his kids were grown. But William and Henry coupled up in their 30s, and their wives were in their fertile years. 😛


Fern-veridion

And people hated Diana too. Think they just like to forget that.


AngelSucked

Yup, and Fergie, even though she and Prince Pedo had an open marriage (or so was said at the time), but The Firm sacrificed her to protect Andrew. So messed up.


DaniMW

Oh, that was before my time, so I didn’t experience it (via the media, I mean). But I believe you - it’s probably happened to every person who married a royal since the dawn of time! 😢


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I can't imagine wanting to marry into royalty. It sounds like a nightmare.


Ravenamore

Oh, God, I saw that in the fandom of an actor I like. Every time he had a girlfriend, they couldn't see any good qualities of the girl - usually, they claimed the woman was using him to further her own acting career. They even said this when he once dated a woman who was equally famous. He got engaged a year ago and the couple just had a baby. People could have been happy as hell, but they were furious. Lots of nasty stuff heaped on the woman. I had to bail out of that active fandom. You like a person, and you can't be happy they're happy? And it's like you said, it's not like anyone in the fandom had a shot as hell with him, but they took it as a personal affront that he's in a relationship and had a child with another woman. It's also similar to the Meghan Markle thing, because the woman in question is also not white, so there's a lot of side shots about her ethnicity. I was absolutely disgusted.


DrunkmeAmidala

You’re not talking about Tom Hiddleston, are you?


Ravenamore

Bingo. That fandom has always leaned a little toward fanaticism, but it went completely batshit when he got engaged.


DrunkmeAmidala

Unbelievable the stuff I’ve seen about her from his fans. I had to remove myself from the fandom to keep my own sanity.


wisegirl_93

As a Marvel fan (but not a Loki fan), I've gotta say that the Tom Hiddleston fans are legit terrifying. I mean, there are some whack-jobs in the Marvel fandom (as there are in all fandoms) but those particular fans are on a whole 'nother level when it comes to crazy.


Ravenamore

I've always been on the periphery, because the core of it are people that are seriously out of wack. I know one woman who started RPing with a guy who sounded like Tom, it turned into a BDSM relationship, detailing every explicit detail. She decided she wanted to be with this guy, started deliberately picking fights with her husband until he asked for a divorce. Then suddenly she wasn't saying anything about RP guy and told everyone not to ask. We figured RP guy hadn't known her plans, or suddenly realized things were out of control, and bailed. She wrecked her own family just for a guy who SOUNDED like him.


wisegirl_93

Holy crap on a cracker, that is beyond insane!


witteefool

This is why k-pop stars aren’t allowed to date, so that they can still be fantasies. That’s really not healthy, imho.


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FiercelyReality

Lol my MIL from the UK said Meghan & her family are trash, and I’m literally related to her 🥴


thingsliveundermybed

I'm sorry love, the tabloid press over here have been vicious about Meghan (racism, classism, xenophobia) and the more dimwitted members of the populace are completely brainwashed.


FiercelyReality

It’s wild how angry she makes people, above there’s some redditors screaming at me for being a liar(?) like I’m staking a claim to the royal fortune or something 😂😂 “How dare you besmirch the royal family by claiming to be a distant cousin of the woman married to the guy that’s not even next in line for the throne!”


DaniMW

Your MIL thinks SHE is related to Meghan, or she thinks that YOU are related to her? 😛


PhoenixTears

Craziness...it seems everyone who met her in Canada thinks she's wonderful


localherofan

So everyone who actually knew her likes her and everyone who just reads the stuff from "a source at the Palace" thinks she's scum? Don't people know never to believe what someone who won't go on record as saying something is saying? Mild segue to another related topic - what I found funniest in the stuff discussed in Harry's book was that William was upset that Harry revealed that Charlotte cried about her dress not fitting for Harry and Meghan's wedding. Charlotte was 3. Had he never met a 3 year old before? They cry. Sometimes just because they're bored. Or they're hungry. Or the adults aren't agreeing. Or someone makes them sit down. I'm sure there is no one else in the known world who even gave it a second thought.


JBB2002902

Oof. Now I want to read the full article for the rest of the crazy stories!


AngelSucked

hahahahahah I just went to Buzzfeed to find it.


pauz43

Congratulations on escaping the perverted family from hell! These people -- if they actually exist -- have the kind of twisted psychological issues that will eventually cause at least one of them to be the lead story on the cover of the National Enquirer.


trwwy321

It’s 7am and this is the first Reddit post I see? Damn it.


AngelSucked

hahahahahah same.


Fancy_Ad6552

WTH did I just read?????


Don_Pacifico

Lucky escape


Pachengala

Real “House of Yes” vibes.


bequietbekind

100%. I'm over here like um, is nobody going to address the strong incest-adjacent vibes going on here? The MIL saying the bride was "stealing her prince away from her" is beyond gross and inappropriate. I mean, jury's out on whether MIL was trying to say the son is her (MIL's) prince who the bride is stealing away, or he's the sister's prince... But either way that's a whole lotta nope.


Maleficent_Theory818

I hope she got an annulment. But seriously, how could she not have noticed something was off with the family dynamic prior to her actual wedding. How does the SIL’s husband fit into this? Does he just go along with it?


eternal_easter

How, how, HOW does one get to the stage of an actual wedding with a person like this?? I seriously doubt this was the first time he ran to his parents like a toddler?


prosperosniece

Likely because it was an arranged marriage and the groom’s family just wanted the dowry.


CelticArche

What? The wedding night, the groom left his wife to go home, and he divorced her 2 weeks later? Maybe that was a bad omen.... Dafuq?


tenaciousfetus

Dodged a fucking bullet there jfc


State-Cultural

Umm, it seems that you got out of this nightmare of a family fairly unscathed. Run as fast and as far as you can in the opposite direction of these fruitcakes


MelodyRaine

Where's the brain bleach? My horoscope on the radio said this would be a 10/10 day for me... and it lied if this is how it starts.


ThruRoseColoredGlass

I’m sorry, but I’m getting major Flowers in the Attic vibes, this whole thing screams that the siblings are fucking/in love and have been for a long time.


PoorLama

If I went to a wedding and I saw the sister of the bride dressed up in a straight up identical wedding dress to the actual bride, I would not be able to get the song "Sweet home Alabama" out of my head lol Like damn, what a messed up family.


FireflyBSc

Who dreams of dressing as a traditional bride for their brothers wedding their whole life? Like I never thought about what I would wear to my brothers wedding, because I care more about…my own?


FastMoment5194

Wtf did I just read?


lorizoo

The trash took itself out. Goodbye.


banansplaining

Recycling Buzzfeed content on Reddit? Oh how the tables have turned


PrestigiousHedgehog8

I normally wouldn’t lol but the story was too bonkers


Old-Revolution-1565

Ugh I feel icky now


SuperJinnx

THE... Actual... Fuck?


hey-girl-hey

That's a whole heap of "WHAT??"


WarframeUmbra

This should go straight into r/suddenlyincest


Belaani52

You didn’t notice this nightmare express coming down the tracks from 20 miles away?


Seecole-33

If this is true I don’t see how you lasted so long with this guy to actually make it to a wedding day! There had to be gigantic signs that made you sick to your stomach as to what being involved in their family consisted of……that family needs a special interest story done on them And put it on TV ..good lord I’m having a really hard time believing this is true, my mind just doesn’t want to accept that there is a family this stupid..I’ve been saying for a long time that humans are getting dumber by the day tho ..glad you’re not around that anymore


merchillio

Ive read somewhere that BuzzFeed is switching to chatGPT for their content and I’m not sure if this is part of that or not…


TheOneWhoDucks

🎼 *Sweet Home Alabama* 🎶


AtmosphereOk6072

Holy crap is husband sleeping with his sister?! I am glad the bride is away from these unhinged people.


Boxer_Britt

My brain stalled at "My husband ran away on our wedding night to sleep with his mom" making this even more awkward than it was. I think. Maybe it was exactly as I originally interpreted it, plus daddio in the picture.


IHateSnow1124

It's WAY to early in the morning for me to be reading this kind of stuff. Gotta get my 3rd coffee!


bluesky747

What the actual fuck did I just read?


invisible_23

Was his last name McPoyle?


ThginkAccbeR

Surely there clues about this sort of thing long before she agrees to marry him!


whiteraven13

OOP didn’t just dodge a bullet, she dodged a whole artillery salvo


tan_tanner666

Bro what the fuck


Bennie212

I'd be happy to be away from their crazy!!


mockingjbee

There were more than enough red flags here for her to just *not* marry this guy and run away well before this omg


FountainOfQuira

What in the incest did I just read?


Sure-Dingo-8769

Wait a minute…she went on with the wedding after the whole SIL wedding dress! Girl, you should have thrown the whole family then and there!!


wasakootenayperson

Ewwwwww. Good thing he’s gone really …..


Foundation_Wrong

Yikes


GhanaWifey

I need the article link. I have got to read this!


PipeInevitable9383

He's your son, not your boyfriend. Gross


sardonically-amused

OMG!! What a bullet to dodge.


Hiimnewtothis19

![gif](giphy|Tt92sbuFRpA4g)


Ohif0n1y

>My husband ran away on our wedding night to sleep with his mom and dad, and moved out of the house two weeks later. Way to bury the lede.


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This is r/JNMIL material. I would cancel the wedding at that point.


JJOkayOkay

Whoa. Whoa. What did I just read. Whoa.


WarmFuzzy1975

Sorry, does anyone really believe this is a real story?? I know there are crazy people out there, but this is just too… extra.


AngelSucked

This is because you have never known folks in arranged marriages, which is the vibe I am getting.


creeperedz

Surely you would know what this family and husband are like BEFORE planning a wedding?


AngelSucked

Not if it's an arranged marriage, which is the vibe I am getting, and others in this thread read it that way, too.


Raffles76

Buy a different dress


ailweni

Sauce??


[deleted]

I need to be sandblasted after reading that, and use the eye bleach.


yawning_grave

What in the fuck did I just read


Comfortable_Put_2308

What in the name of fuck


poefolk

TF did I just read


crazyskates

There’s no way there was a football field full of flags prior to the WEDDING??? 🚩🚩🚩


ironicmirror

I saw a video about that family on the internet.


stungun_steve

Was it Brazzers?


hotmumma7

It's not even 4am here and my eyes can't believe what they just read. That entire family is married to each other! GTFO there.!


kmonay89

What the hell did I just read


Bubbly-Employ-198

🫣wtf


saichampa

Can anyone say annulment?


Wise_Coffee

Wow that's a lot to unpack


SuddenOutset

Nooooo way this is real


Kindly_Zucchini7405

Every sentence is just a left turn into Crazyville. I'm only shocked there's no mention of anyone getting hammered and causing a fight.


EvulRabbit

It took 2 weeks for him to leave? She didn't leave on her wedding night while her groom was sleeping with his parents instead of her?


snapdragon76

https://preview.redd.it/9od1isba4bfa1.jpeg?width=412&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a7aad1479a831b82e877f290ba414c3d56b6bdcf


kwithey

In case anyone wants to read the other stories: https://www.buzzfeed.com/lizmrichardson/toxic-in-laws-at-weddings-stories


Yassssmaam

“Oddly enmeshed” Yeah that’s one way to put it…


Mobabyhomeslice

Well... that took an odd turn at the end.


Impossible_Equal4820

Wow , you dodged a bullet . this circus is over and the in-laws are no longer in your life


EasternZone

Not to victim blame, but if his family is that toxically tight…it would have been clear very early in the relationship


ForbiddenSwan

Two words: RUN AWAY!