We'd love to hear from you! Share your marriage horror stories by submitting a few details to us along with your name and where you're from and we'll post them as a stern warning for all to heed! Your contribution can make a difference in the life of someone who is contemplating the suicide plunge into marriage. Read some of our sob stories below.
"I should have known better. Single life, I thought at the time, was wearing thin on my sanity. If I'd only known what was in store for me once I got married I would have hung myself a long time ago..."Gary Rohrbacker - Toledo, Ohio
"I was in love. I thought she'd make the perfect wife. We'd get married, buy a house, have children and live the American dream. The reality was we got hitched, foreclosed on the house within a year, she got pregnant but not by me and I lived the Communist nightmare."
Dean Torkelson - Gainesville, Florida
I'd like to think that I did the best I could and that I was the best husband I could be. But somehow the b*tch just never accepted me for who I was. I felt strangled. I couldn't stop looking at other women and in the end it killed our relationship. It was all for the better though. I'm dating again and being single again is like the feeling you get when you are forcibly held underwater till you're near death then are suddenly allowed to come up for air. Thank you Jesus!"
Nathan Sherwood - Tyler, Texas
"Everyone kept asking me when I was gonna get married. I was nervous but loved my boyfriend so we tied the knot. He beat me like a rag doll. We divorced in 6 months."
Kathy L. - Providence, Rhode Island
"It wasn't enough for us to live together, or so she insisted so we got married 3 years ago. Things went into the crapper almost immediately and I found myself staying out later and later every night. Eventually I turned to the bottle and I've been divorced and in A.A. ever since."
John Freeman - Scottsdale, Arizona
"The next sum-bitch who tells me that marriage is what you make of it is going to hear me roar. I made the best of what is an inherantly corrupt institution - marriage."
Keith Polanski - Daytona, Florida
"I really thought marriage was the answer to all my hopes and dreams. I married a beautiful woman. We got ourselves settled and I landed a great job. Things were great at first, then good, then just ok. Finally, within about 5 years I didn't recognize myself in the mirror anymore. I went into a deep self-loathing and my wife never forgave me for the numerous affairs I had. We divorced recently and I can't help but feel that the damage is permanent."
Neil West - Grand Rapids, Michigan
"All the pain I've gone through over the past 9 years of marriage can be traced back to two words I said - 'I DO'..."
Allen Gustaffson - Duluth, Minnesota
"God how I hated myself for saying yes to him. I can't understand how I was so blind. I started wondering why he was working late so often and when I went to his work to surprise him with some take-out from our favorite Lebanese restaurant, I caught him in the act with his secretary - right there on the receptionist desk. I was so humiliated."
Yolanda Friar - Santa Cruz, California
"I pray to God every night that he'll get me out of this hell I'm living in. In exchange for this I promise God that I'll never do it again (get married). It's my punishment I guess."
Brenda Ilkin - Halifax, Virginia
"If I had some advice to give to younger men it would be to stay single since, if you value your sex life, your money and your general mental well-being, you'll avoid the abyss of marriage."
Tom Fairbanks - Scranton, Pennsylvania
"Everyone said we'd make a great couple. We married in 1986 and by 1992 we were sworn enemies. The whole thing is a blur to me now."
Ronald O'Keefe - West Hartford, Connecticut
"All I ever wanted was a man to love and trust. I thought I got that with my husband Louie. But Louie was a philanderer and I could only forgive so many times. I mean 7 affairs is all I could handle."
Carla Stoudt - Greenville, S. Carolina
"Marriage is a sham. I bought the lie and it only took about a year to realize how dumb I was for doing it. My husband is such a jerk. He never told me about all those warrants and the 2 felony convictions. Divorce was my only salvation."
Dee-Dee Von Klutson - New Haven, Missouri
"I was in a Rock Band, traveling, making good money, and getting more p*ssy than you could shake a stick at and I sacrificed it all for one woman who promised to love and obey me. Sh*t!! More like hate and defy me! Never again!"
Derek Tilman - Seattle, Washington