Bride-To-Be Cancels Wedding A Week Before After Discovering Her Husband Watches Porn
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The sanctity of marriage should always be taken seriously because, let's face it, it's not every day we agree to spend the rest of our lives with one person.
Naturally, you'd expect to have a pretty good idea of what the other person is all about before you make that commitment but sadly, that is not always the case.
One woman had to make the devastating decision to cancel her wedding to a man she describes as her best friend just one week before the big day after she discovered he was looking at pornography on his phone.
Claire Dalton, from America, grew up wishing to find a love that was 'true and pure' as well as 'governed by God's law', she explained on blogging site Love What Matters.
And that's exactly what she had until just days before she and her fiancé were due to wed, when she discovered that he had several tabs open on his phone that contained some less than PG images.
The 21-year-old, who identifies herself as holding strong Christian faith, claimed her husband-to-be had been watching porn just hours earlier and that he had "multiple windows open of sick and twisted ideas of what women supposedly look like."
Claire continued: "I felt like I'd been cheated on. It changed my entire relationship with him, including all the happy memories we had shared in the past. It made me feel worthless and unlovable."
After finding the pornography, the realisation that he'd more than likely been watching porn for the years they'd been together hit home.
She added: "Someone I loved and cared for deeply had been expertly lying to me for the entire length of our relationship, and possibly longer, since we had been friends for so long.
"All at once, I was with a stranger instead of the person I thought I knew so well. In an instant I could never trust those lying eyes ever again.
"All I ever wanted in a relationship was honesty, and it quickly occurred to me the only honesty I'd known at that point was fake."
While not everyone might agree with Claire's reasoning, there's no denying that if Claire was having second thoughts then she did the right thing by not going through with the marriage.
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Now, a year down the line, Claire says she finally feels able to talk about her experience and is urging others to do the same.
"Experiences like this MUST BE TALKED ABOUT because keeping quiet only leaves deeper wounds and undeniable scars.
"My hope is that someone who reads this knows she's not the first one to go through something similar, and it's okay to hurt for a long longtime.
"It's okay to take time to grieve. It's okay to feel broken. And there IS HOPE FOR HEALING."
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