Whether a couple has been married for weeks, years, or decades, they may feel regret for the person they married.
Unfortunately, according to a survey, 72% of men claimed to regret their marriage, compared to 54% of women.
According to 11 men, here are the painful reasons they regretted marrying their wives
1. The love has never been mutual
"She never loved me. She married me because she thought her love would grow with time."
2. We had drastically different ideas about the concept of family
"My wife lied to me about her family plans. Partly to have children, mostly to build our family. Her definition of 'our family' put her mother at the head of the table. My definition did not."
3. She changed the minute she became my wife.
"Her personality changed dramatically from the person I was dating before. Stereotypical changes when we got married - much less intimacy and more complaints from her. I would never have dated the person she became after marriage."
4. She became very needy and depressed.
"My wife's father died around the time we got married, and she never recovered from his death, despite my best efforts to get her into therapy. We have nothing in common anymore. I feel like I'm living with a lazy, extremely needy roommate. We live two completely separate lives."
5. She wasn't 'her' anymore
"I regret marrying the wrong woman, being immature, naive, and too eager to find a wife, versus waiting to find the right woman."
6. Nothing made him happy.
"She thought buying a house with me would make her happy. It didn't. I then sold the house and even made a loss."
7. We were very young when we met.
"The first time, I was very young, 23, we connected very quickly and I didn't hold back when I knew things were going off the rails. What I would have told my younger self is that at 23 you're just a kid and you have a lot more life to live and find someone you're really compatible with."
8. Marriage said goodbye to my freedom
"I am married. But my only sorrow is that I like free time, which is impossible to find."
9. We only got married because she gave me an ultimatum.
"I accepted her ultimatum. She just wanted to get married. In general. It didn't necessarily have to be me."
10. She used me
"She drained me financially and then cheated on me. Then when we tried to work it out 'for the baby', she just wanted to convince me to pay some of her bills with the idea that we would live together again."
11. We never recovered from my mistakes.
"I don't regret the marriage, I regret not ending it sooner. We broke up because I acted like an idiot. I pulled myself together and we went back to raising our daughter. It was clear right away that she didn't really forgive me and wasn't really trying to forgive me. It felt like she was getting revenge."
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Source: Your Tango
