There are times when we think we know our partner better than anyone else, but just a few months or even years into the relationship, one discovery can rock our world. This is exactly what happened to the people in this collection. They were shocked and sometimes broken when they found out a big and sometimes dangerous truth about the love of their life.

I began finding lipstick-stained napkins in my pockets soon after I got married. Once, my wife found them. She got angry and said it wasn’t her lipstick. She also said she would leave me. I swore I didn’t know whose they were.
Then, one day, I was horrified to find over 40 of the same kind of napkins stained with lipstick—the same color I was finding in my pockets.
Then it hit me all of a sudden. We agreed before we got married that my wife would take half of my money if there was proof that she had been cheating on me. It was clear to me that she was trying to set me up.

Our daughter was born before my ex-wife and I got married. She did this on purpose because she knew her mom couldn’t pay for her health insurance anymore and she didn’t want to work. She knew that if she had a baby, she could get health care through the state. From Schikadance on Reddit

I found out she was hiding $81k in debt from her first marriage after I asked for a divorce. The money was being taken out of her paycheck every month for $600, and she said I owed her half of that! RugbyN3rd on Reddit

I found out that my ex-wife had given away two kids when she was younger after we got divorced. Also, I found out that her tubes had been tied the whole time we were married. There was even a fertility doctor we saw because she kept saying she was “messed up on the inside.” civ187 on Reddit

I learned that my wife was going to leave me after I gave her the second child she wanted. She planned to keep living the dream in a house paid for by her parents, with a car paid for by her parents and health care paid for by her parents, etc., without me. I wish her the best. This is Words_of_Err_ on Reddit.

Before our honeymoon, my husband lied and said that he wasn’t taking his antipsychotics. As a young adult (18 years old), I had no idea how serious that was or that it would slowly lead to a terrible psychotic break during which I had to call the police. The good news is that he keeps taking them now! By izziev on Reddit

My ex-wife didn’t tell me she had a son outside of the country until after we got engaged. Then, when I went to get my marriage license, I found out that she was also divorced. Even though these things came out, I still went ahead with the wedding, and the five years were great. Even though the divorce hurt, it felt good to be free.