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“I got married after knowing my ex for six months — two of those months he was deployed. I think I just got caught up in his excitement. Part of it was I was getting close to 30 and wanted to marry and have kids. I didn’t move in with him until six weeks after we were married. I learned pretty quickly that I didn’t really know him at all. Found some pretty disturbing stories he had written. After a few months, I found out that he wasn’t sure about his sexual preferences.”
“By then I was already pregnant and had such severe morning sickness that I couldn’t work. I had moved to marry him so I felt trapped. We tried marriage counseling, but it was pointless. I was the happiest when he was deployed. I had my daughter and made a plan to leave. Those plans got fast-forwarded when something awful happened to my daughter, and he was responsible. The divorce was traumatic, took almost two years, and cost me $30k. I had to file for bankruptcy afterward. It’s been 16 years, and I never want to get married again.”
—anonymous
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