Woman Considering Annulment One Week After Wedding Due to Husband's Behavior: 'I'm Being Told to Get Over It'

Mar. 15, 2025

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In a lengthyposton Reddit’s Wedding forum, the 25-year-old woman recounted a series of events that have led her to want to end her marriage so soon after it began. She said “the story begins at the rehearsal dinner,” explaining that her parents own the venue and allowed her husband’s family to host the pre-wedding event there.

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“Things escalated” on the day of the wedding, the woman said. Her husband’s family “completed disregarded the agreed-upon schedule” for taking photos and even “went behind [her] back” and requested additional family portraits that ended up cutting into the time allotted for bridal party photos.

Then, 15 minutes before the ceremony was set to begin, the bride was informed that the groom’s 15-year-old sister would be giving a speech, despite the fact that she “had made it clear the day before that any speeches should be given at the rehearsal.” When she “confronted” her husband about it, he “dismissed her concerns.”

“Overall, his family seemed to be prioritizing their own interests and needs over what was best for us as a couple,” she continued of the wedding experience. “When I raised these concerns with my husband, he brushed them off, making it seem like they weren’t a big deal.”

Later, she “found out [her husband] had lied about telling his sister to give her speech at the rehearsal [instead of the wedding].”

“I asked him not to bring this matter up with his parents to avoid further drama, but he immediately ignored my request and texted them,” she wrote.

Looking for feedback, she concluded her post, “I am genuinely asking for advice. I’m being told that I need to ‘get over it.’ "

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Another noted that the woman needs to consider the bigger picture.

“You’re turning little administrative things for a wedding into a character flaws. You can annul your wedding and say your husband doesn’t even care about you, but it’s over little things like speeches at a wedding, photographs being taken at a wedding, and flowers at a wedding,” they wrote. “What about your entire dating life?? How did we get here that we’re basing a huge life decision off of in-laws' behavior on wedding day instead of off an entire full relationship that we’ve had well outside of one wedding day?”

Another Redditor was sympathetic to the woman, writing, “I won’t lie, it sucks that your husband didn’t listen to you and lied about his sister.” But they agreed with many other commenters that considering an annulment is a drastic reaction to a minor disagreement.

“I don’t see anything here that remotely qualifies as grounds for annulment,” they wrote to the woman. “I also don’t think that this issue is worth ending your marriage over, although it definitely needs to be talked through. I think it’s very solvable, though.”

source: people.com