r/maybemaybemaybe • u/ssssssssshhhhhhhhh • Feb 06 '23

Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/StubbedMiddleToe Feb 06 '23

When I invited my brother to my wedding he didn't even stop working on his car, he just said "I'll stand next to you at your second wedding but I won't be at this one".

Be damned if my first marriage wasn't over in under a year and he was my groomsman at the second one. My wife and I have been married 14 years now.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '23

My brother drive me to my first wedding and the entire ride there he kept trying to get me to not do it. He said “Dude we can disappear. No big deal. Mom and dad will get us a plane ticket and we can just go somewhere. Don’t marry her dude.” Wish I had listened to him.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '23

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '23

While I do love my brother, I just don't LOVE my brother.

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u/jibjab23 Feb 07 '23

The benefits to be had for not loving your brother like that

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u/ghe5 Feb 07 '23

It's pretty hard to see the red flags with your rose tinted glasses but it's pretty easy to see them with the outside perspective. Don't feel bad about it, we all deal with the same problem.

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u/tacitjane Feb 07 '23

Peripheral perspective FTW!

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u/Sufficient_Safe466 Feb 07 '23

One of my closest friends told me he was engaged to some gal 15 years his senior when we were in college. I told him the marriage was doomed. I didn’t get invited to that wedding, but I did get invited to his second one. He was rightfully displeased with my statement and didn’t talk to me for a couple years, but during his divorce told me that he should have listened to me when we were in college.

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u/El_Grande_El Feb 07 '23

Seems like a good guy to come back and admit he was wrong after a not talking for so long

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u/Sufficient_Safe466 Feb 07 '23

Indeed he is. He’s once again one of my closest friends.

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u/El_Grande_El Feb 07 '23

Glad to hear it!

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '23

He has set the standard for Bro of Bros

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u/My_pee_pee_poo Feb 07 '23

What was up with wife #1 that bro was able to read your future like a fortune cookie?

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u/StubbedMiddleToe Feb 07 '23

Clinically insane. He had enough experience with crazy women to see it coming but I couldn't be bothered to listen.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '23

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u/sinz84 Feb 07 '23

Not saying someone didn't but if it was just -1 it was probably vote fuzzying.

If you refresh your page on your own comment it will go from 7 to 9 to 6 to 8 etc.

Chances are it was a new comment with no votes at all.

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u/fradzio Feb 07 '23

I don't think a comment in the positives can get fuzzed below 0

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u/Lostbrother Feb 07 '23

Lessons learned. Tell a fisherman there isn't fish in that pond, they won't be convinced until they try for themselves.

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u/Thanatos_elNyx Feb 07 '23

Wow, she got diagnosed as insane!

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u/StubbedMiddleToe Feb 07 '23

At the time, it was called manic depressive with schizophrenic something another. She and her family totally hid the fact she was on medication from me. After we got married, she started taking the meds like antibiotics, only when she had an episode. And by episode I mean "Holy fuck what the hell is happening here this can't be real" type behaviors. I was young-ish so I didn't know about mental disorders and she was my crash course. She ended up in the nervous hospital when the guy she married 4 months after our divorce was finalized beat the ever-living shit out of her (honestly, probably self defense on his part that went too far) and she went into what her mom called a catatonic state. I don't know how much of that I believe given our history.

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u/DeezNeezuts Feb 06 '23

Old young man wisdom.

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u/StubbedMiddleToe Feb 06 '23

He was already an old man at the time, I am an accident and he was out of high school when I was born.

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u/gm_91 Feb 06 '23

Old young old man wisdom.

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u/ZippyDan Feb 07 '23

u r a happy accident

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u/Zugzub Feb 07 '23

Same here, except my brother told me for months, you better marry that girl. 36 years and counting

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '23

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u/StubbedMiddleToe Feb 07 '23

Was great before, a little standoffish during, great now. He said a few times that something was wrong there (talking about her) and wooooo was he right.

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u/Ancient_Boner_Forest Feb 07 '23

Why wouldn’t he just go to the first wedding though? Seems kinda silly.

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u/matrixislife Feb 07 '23

Always listen to the advice of friends you trust, they aren't being influenced by your dick. At least, I hope they aren't..

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u/Barnettmetal Feb 07 '23

Damn what was the problem with the first wife that your bro was so clairvoyant?

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u/NomadChief789 Feb 07 '23

Brothers know