While some blame the recession, Majcher sees another culprit: "The urgency for women to get married just isn't there anymore," she says. In other words, when the gal in the white dress earns as much as the guy in the tux, there's less pressure for her to sprint to the altar for the wrong reasons.
Which gives her the freedom to marry for the right ones. Or not at all. Check out our Wedding Survival Guide to learn how to get through the madness in style—whether you're a guest or the bride. This next story is really the story of an online predator and a would-be child bride. Nightmaremain shares that when she was 12 years old, she started talking to a man online who vowed to take her away from her family.
He was about 40 years old. One day he drove to her house to pick her up. She put on her "favorite white dress" and went outside to meet him, but then she froze. Her mom had just had another baby and she realized what she'd be missing out on if she left with this strange man. So she went back inside and never saw him again. As one commenter put it, "'The chase is better than the catch,' I guess.
Sometimes, women who are in abusive situations can't see a way out until they are about to tie the knot. That's what happened to a friend of turtoils. The next day, her family notified all the guests and a bunch of her friends forced themselves into the dude's house to gather her stuff. It may not have been the most convenient way for things to end, but at least she got out of a terrible situation before it got more complicated. In a similar story, JenniTheBunni tells us about her friend Cheyenne, who had a volatile on-again-off-again relationship with this guy named Nick since they were in high school.
On the day of their wedding, Cheyenne disappeared 15 minutes before she was supposed to walk down the aisle. Jenni found her friend in town walking into a bar. There, Cheyenne confessed that Nick had been abusing her since high school. She was pregnant with his child, and that morning he threatened to kill her and her baby if she didn't behave. Long story short, he's in prison and she's got a beautiful four-year-old daughter and a new partner.
Faleboat had an ex who told him that she ran away from her wedding because she was about to marry an emotionally abusive man. So he stood up and said, "Let's go to Dairy Queen. They left the scene of the wedding, hashed it out over ice cream, and eventually went back to tell everyone that the wedding wouldn't be happening.
Three cheers for supportive dads! This story has a pretty insane, coincidental ending. Everything was normal in the months, weeks, and days before the wedding Then, she just didn't show up on the wedding day. Her explanation was that she changed her mind. I've only spoken to her a few times since then and that's the best I got out of her. The groom said he needed to use the toilet and he walked to the back of the church. A minute or so later it hit me that the toilets aren't at the back of the church and I started to worry, so I went looking for him.
He was not in the toilets or around the church. He was nowhere to be found. We didn't see or hear from him for three days … he was in Europe somewhere 'staying with a friend,' where he's been ever since for the past three years. He's never made any effort to explain [why he left], not even to my sister. Apparently, he was only dating her because they were in the same friend group and everyone thought it was cool that they were together. When it got real on the wedding day, he realized he didn't really like her at all.
So he just moved right out of there. On the night before the wedding, [the groom] broke down crying. He thought he was making a mistake. We offered support and told him it would be OK. We said that if he didn't want to do it he didn't have to, but we encouraged him to go through with it. The groom starts rocking back and forth. He looks like he is about to faint and he slowly starts side shuffling.
The groom turns to his right and starts heading to the side door. Some people in the church notice and there is a gasp. We yell at him and he yells at us to get in and we do He takes off! We end up in Las Vegas for the next few days. He walked off to the side and, at first, my teacher and her father didn't notice and they kept walking, smiling radiantly. There was about a minute of really solid confusion before everyone realized what was going on.
This happened the second or third week of June. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. By Staff. Why They Run Away Marriage counselors cite a few reasons for this phenomenon: the woman felt tremendous pressure before the wedding because she was not allowed to have a wedding she could personally orchestrate herself.
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