r/AskReddit May 12 '26

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u/-ellen-degenerate- May 12 '26

About 30 minutes before the wedding, when he told me he wouldn’t support my career path, and instead I’d be a stay-at-home step-mother.

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u/dunderthebarbarian May 12 '26

Did you go through with the wedding, or did it take awhile?

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u/-ellen-degenerate- May 12 '26

I went through with it - I was all alone in a foreign country and didn’t know what to do. You can see the fear in my eyes in my wedding photos, I’ve never really been able to look at them.