The groom left the reception with his mother (Picture: Getty Images/iStockphoto)
There’s only one thing worse than your husband ditching you on your wedding night for another woman — and that’s the other woman being your mother-in-law.
Traditionally, wedding nights are reserved for immersing yourself in freshly-married bliss with your new spouse, but one newlywed spent her wedding night alone after her husband opted to go home with his mum.
It might sound like a thing of nightmares, but it’s the sad reality for the 30-year-old woman, who admitted she feels unable to forgive her husband in a post on the ‘AmIWrong’ Reddit forum.
‘My husband and I have been married for nearly three months now but I am still traumatised over what he did on our wedding day and I spend at least two nights in a week awake all night crying because of this,’ she explained.
She described how she and her 29-year-old partner had an ‘intimate’ wedding, but that she was ‘not accepted’ by her husband’s mother because she was older than him.
Because of their South Asian heritage, the mother’s disapproval led to two years of struggle for the couple, with the Redditor noting how, because of this disapproval, her own parents were also reluctant to give her away.
The bride was left alone shortly after the cake was cut (Picture: Getty Images/iStockphoto)
Despite this, they managed to get to their wedding day, but her husband’s side of the family seemed ‘very down’ while the mother-in-law had tears in her eyes. She also told the original poster (OP) that she’d only be able to stay at the wedding for an hour as she was visiting friends.
While the woman tried to get her husband to stay, he and his mother decided to leave as soon as the pictures were done.
Her post continued: ‘My husband then goes to me, “Is it all done can we go?” I got so hurt by this and I said to him “You are leaving our wedding ceremony to go and sit at someone’s else’s house.”‘
But despite her begging, he still left, hugging his new bride after she started ‘bawling [her] eyes out’ before following his mother out the door.
Since the incident, the OP said she has remained very ‘hurt’ by this, adding: ‘I think that if we had not tied the knot I would’ve left him forever on that day but I couldn’t because he was my husband at that point.’
And while her husband initially tried to console her, he later ‘got fed up of [her] crying’ and called her ‘a f***ing bitch,’ leaving the woman at a crossroads over whether she should forgive him.
Commenters assured the OP she wasn’t in the wrong, and were pretty much unanimous as to what she should do next.
‘You already know what awaits you if you, get pregnant, sick [or] have any emergency and need your husband’s support’ one pointed out.
‘All it takes is for his mother to snap her fingers and you’re left alone. Will you put yourself first? Or will you be his family’s rug?’
Another said she should seek an annulment on the grounds of false premises because ‘he was never seriously involved with you in the first place, nor did he ever care about you.’
‘Honestly, I don’t know why you’ve stayed with him,’ a third added. ‘You deserve so much better.’
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‘All it takes is for his mother to snap her fingers and you’re left alone.’