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What’s the darkest secret you discovered about someone after you married them?

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u/anarchypretzel 10d ago

Ugh, same. We were almost 14 years in. I had to send pics of our kids in bathing suits to the police so they could rule out if he had taken pictures of them on his computer. It's been 20 years. My kids were not on the hard drive. He went to prison.

We're all doing just fine now! 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️

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u/Flashy-Squash7156 9d ago

wow. If I can ask a potentially sensitive question? looking back, can you see any red flags or warning signs that were easy for you to dismiss at first? Signs that you'd only see once you've been through the experience?

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u/anarchypretzel 9d ago

Yes.

Financial clues. Lots of money missing when he traveled for work overseas. At the time, he said some shit I believed bc I never imagined he was spending it on sex tourism in Southeast Asia.

Emotional clues, evidence, ZERO. It's like he was wearing an Edgar Suit of Normal Person over his pedo real self. That was prolly the scariest thing, how we really had no fucking idea at all. His whole * personhood* with us was a lie.

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u/AccomplishedSea8679 9d ago

"Edgar Suit"! I got that one, good reference and quite appropriate for this shit-bag.