Vows Vanished: Tales of Relationships Set to Disappear

Celebrating a wedding, especially when it involves close friends, is a truly heartwarming and thrilling experience. However, not all love stories have a fairy-tale ending. 

Whether they like it or not, once the relationship becomes neglected, you know what happens next. In the Reddit Community, folks have shared tales of weddings that left them with a sense that the union might face challenges and be bound to end. Check this out!

1. The Vow Said It All

At the rehearsal dinner, the groom's mom is in tears because "he looks miserable," and he is. We all knew it. He was a completely different person now from before.

During the vows they had written for each other, the bride starts with, "I know I can be a pretty terrible person, and I don't know why you've stuck around, but that's all going to change starting today!"

They were divorced a year later. We really saw it coming, and most people who knew them both were not shocked by it when it was announced.

vogelarcher15

The bride, whom I didn't even know, apparently designated me to help decorate the reception hall prior to the wedding. I went to do so, and her mother was there, telling me in a hushed, scared whisper that I better not mess anything up because the bride would be FURIOUS.

Everything was to be a certain way, and if it was wrong, there'd be hell to pay. I gave her the benefit of the doubt (chalked it up to wedding anxiety), and during the reception, I tried to chat with her a bit, and she literally rolled her eyes at me. I also didn't see her look at the groom once at the wedding or the reception.

They were split less than a year later. Later, the groom confided to my husband that the morning of the wedding, he'd been overwhelmed with dread and spent several hours just sitting on his lawn, thinking, "I shouldn't do this."

But it was paid for, tons of guests were waiting, lots of families (including us) had come in from out of state, and he felt he had to go through with it.

Apparently, the bride had a history of being awful and controlling. No clue what made him propose to her in the first place.

[deleted]

I was working at a "wedding factory." On Monday, we got a call that Saturday's wedding was canceled. They were told that they would lose the deposit ( around $7,000).

Then, on Thursday, they said it was back on. When the guests arrived, everyone was pissed off. It seems they told everyone that it was off, then it was on two days later.

The ceremony was about 3 min. The bride then changed into sweatpants, and then everyone got angry and drunk. "Well, this won't last long," I thought. Then, on the following Monday, the bride walked into my (then) wife's divorce attorney's office.

redcapmilk

Our friend was the girl who had spent a whole year setting up for the one day. They had taken six months of dancing lessons.

She also had spent a ridiculous amount of time looking good and dressing up her bridesmaids for the wedding, of which my wife was one.

So come the night of the wedding, the groom meets up with his old friends and starts to get blackout drunk. He got so drunk he didn't even recognize us, rather just pushing us aside to get to the bathroom.

The worst part was the dance itself. Seeing them stumble around and watch the panic on the bride’s face as she realized he had no idea what was happening was heartbreaking. I gave it six months at the time, but they ended up three years. She ended up marrying another woman.

[deleted]

My cousin's wedding. The groom invited his ex, who was also the mother of his one-year-old son. He and my cousin had been dating for longer than two years.

My cousin (who was then very pregnant herself) got into a loud screaming match with him over it in a bathroom. I cannot blame her.

They eventually came out and got married, my cousin with puffy red eyes from crying that you can see in every wedding photo that was taken.

LemonFake

I do audio/visuals for social events and a lot of weddings. At one engagement party, my co-worker tells the story of the groom trying to carry off his soon-to-be bride.

You know, because he's manly and will have his way with her. Anyways, she is SCREAMING at him to put her down. She was so annoyed.

When the groom finally complies… Lo and behold, she slaps him right across the face and yells, "I'M NOT DONE DANCING." Oops!

[deleted]

Four people made speeches: The bride joked about the first time she dated the groom when she was 16 and he was 26. Uhh, that was awkward.

The groom was wasted and spoke about how each of the previous times they broke up didn't count and that they would do it right this time.

The maid of honor talked about how even when they were broken up, they still got along and the best man-made crappy jokes. The groom's brother didn't attend because he had banged the bride before.

MysterJ

I was reunited with a family member just before her wedding. We went out drinking, and she proudly pointed out a guy at the bar that she'd just gone on a trip with and had a week-long prenup bang romp.

She seemed to think I'd think that was naughty and funny. I just felt bad for her future husband, but I figured it was just a bad choice.

On the day of the wedding, I went to see her in the bridal suite. She had the guy there with him. She slept with him the night before the wedding. They lasted a few years, but it was a miserable few.

amstobar

My cousin got his casual hookup pregnant, and somehow, they came to the conclusion that they needed to get married. Instead of going and getting quietly married, they decided they needed a gigantic, expensive wedding.

Like, a 5-course meal, 300+ guests, 12 bridesmaids, kind of wedding. Obviously, something like this takes a while to plan, and as a result, she was about seven months pregnant.

Now, nothing wrong with going down the aisle while expecting, but she chose this corseted dress that was cinched so tight it nearly flattened her bump out. (As someone who has been pregnant, I can't imagine how uncomfortable that must have been.)

The fact that they had only known each other eight months and she was seven months pregnant was like the elephant in the room the entire wedding. She refused to acknowledge the fact that she was pregnant.

She had been out of college for 10+ years and invited all her sorority sisters. They got up, and all sang this weird sorority song together.

Very odd for an over-30 woman. I'm probably not explaining it very well, but it was like she was trying to act like she was much younger. They were married for about four years, way longer than anyone thought it would last.

Rapunzel_Fitzherbert

They only got married because they banged on their first date and conceived a child. Fast forward a few months, the bride objects to going to the groom's friend for flowers for the wedding.

Because she has a religious objection to the "gay lifestyle." It turns out she's also incredibly racist. The groom is not homophobic or racist at all.

He was appalled to find out that his new wife wouldn't approve of most of his friends. The baby hasn't even been born yet, and the divorce is pending.

[deleted]

Not all of it was AT the wedding, but... On our way to our honeymoon, we were on a flight with this couple sitting behind us. She boarded the plane with a giant carry-on and a garment bag with her dress in it.

Once they found their seats, she shoved her bags at him to put away and then went to use the lavatory for about 15 minutes. She was really nasty towards him the whole time.

Fast forward to running into them at the resort: She was super stuck up and mean to every female and all of the staff. She didn't seem to have a problem grinding on 4 or 5 different guys during one of the "dance night" themed events while her husband drank alone at the bar.

Finally, the day of their wedding came, and my husband ran into the groom, sitting alone outside at the cafe with a drink in his hand.

He sat down to chat with him, and the guy explained that he was freaking out because they had no friends or family at the wedding.

After all, literally, NO one who knew him liked her or approved of the wedding, and he wasn't even sure what he was doing there.

My husband tells him he's sure it's cold feet and to just have a drink to calm his nerves. The groom replies that this is his 5th drink (it’s like 11 am) already.

We had an oceanfront villa, and they got married right outside of our back door. He looked like he was going to bolt for SURE. I guess that was her plan the whole time: trap him on a remote island.

baker2015

Her vows. They were friends of mine who dated for nearly two years before their wedding. He loved her more than she loved him, obvious to all our friends, and we suspected she begrudgingly said yes to his proposal.

He said his vows first and went on and on about loving her for the rest of his life. During hers, she started with "438 days... that's how long I've loved you."

It seemed sweet until she ended her vows with, "And I promise to love you for at least 438 more." Most thought nothing of it, and some friends called me a jerkward for saying it was a subconscious sign she wasn't in it for the long haul.

She left him exactly that number of days after the wedding with a note that said, 'I kept my vow to love you for 438 days more, but I can't for a single day more.' Called it.

[deleted]

At the wedding, the bride-to-be turns up 30 minutes late. Arrives inconsolably sobbing. Helped down the aisle. The ceremony was weird and filled with cries from the bride.

Afterward, spoke to the bride’s father and asked how things were. His response was, "Well, that was like getting a cat in a paper bag."

Divorced three months later. The back story was that the groom (whom we knew) was from a wealthy family. Bride's family saw $$, and "persuaded" their darling daughter to marry the guy.

She realized the mistake. She ended up with nothing (his family had money, but the groom was young and had nothing). Messed up people out there, folks.

treecreaper

The groom, groomsmen, groom's friends, groom's father, etc. (all males, just for clarification) kept making "jokes" about being tied down.

They say about having a "nagging" wife," the end of being single, and not being able to flirt with other women. Basically, everything was about how marriage "actually sucks."

This is something I will never understand. If marriage sounds THAT awful to you, why even get married? That still puzzles me.

xxicedcoffeexx

I work in hotels, and I see about a wedding a week. The craziest one had to be one where the groom dropped a massive bomb on the whole wedding.

When the best man was done giving his speech, the groom grabbed the microphone and said, "I just wanted to let everyone know that the bride is banging the best man.”

“I've known for a while, but I wanted the bride's family to spend a ton of money on a wedding," he added. And then he got up and walked out.

Sotari

I work night audit at a hotel that does a lot of weddings. Last weekend the wedding ended at about 11 pm, rather early for most weddings we get, but it wasn't a super big affair.

The bride went to bed. The groom went out drinking. At about 3 am, the best man and groom told me his key wasn't working, and he couldn't get into his room. I remake the key and tell them if that doesn't work, his wife must have deadbolted the door.

He was positive she never would do such a thing. Well, guess who locked her husband out of the room on their wedding night?

StoptheDreamer

The bride smashed the cake in the groom's face. He put the piece he was holding back down and walked quickly out of the building.

The DJ awkwardly transitioned back to music and dancing, but everyone was just standing around talking about what had just happened.

She followed him a few minutes later, and they came back to the reception for a bit, but it was weird and uncomfortable. They held on for a year before getting a divorce.

[deleted]

The bride refused to kiss the groom no matter what and would reluctantly hold hands with him in front of people and photos.

She yanks her hand off as soon as people's backs are turned. They divorced a month later. The bride then remarried within a few months.

Turns out it was an arranged marriage the moms forced on them. The groom and bride never really liked each other but went through with the wedding anyway.

The bride was already in another relationship behind the groom back long before the wedding. I cannot blame her. Well, I was the groom.

sackofmangoes

They reconnected on Facebook almost a decade after their first breakup. She moved across the country in the middle of the night without telling anyone.

A few weeks later, they went to the courthouse to get married. Six months later, she moved back home without him or the Uhaul full of everything she owned.

Pro-tip: if you feel like you have to hide something from everyone you know because they will think it is a bad idea and try to talk you out of it, you're probably doing something really stupid.

DobbyDooDoo

I found out my brother got married via email. "I just wanted to let everyone know that X and I went to the courthouse today. We ended up getting married because it's simpler this way. Nobody is pregnant."

Six months later, splitsville. We were not shocked about it, but we could not care less. On the plus side, she loved to paint.

She painted the whole two-story foyer in his house. If she had stuck around another month or so, she could have probably gotten mine painted, too.

Siberwulf

At what I'd dubbed "The worst wedding ever," the bride and groom were an hour late, argued with everyone at the wedding, ran out of food at the reception, and made the groom's mom cry by yelling at her.

The other was when the bride cried through the entire ceremony. It clicked in my head that she wasn't just roommates with the guy she lived with (not the groom).

They were an actual couple. She married the groom because her mom wanted her to do so. A year later, she was making up this story about the husband being a control freak.

It was like that crummy Julia Roberts movie where she runs away from her freaky husband. Meanwhile, the guy was just nice and quiet and didn't do anything that she said he did.

Azzizzi

This happened during my cousin's wedding. They were under a carved wooden arch intertwined with white roses. Cute, right?

When the pastor uttered the words, "If any of you has reasons why these two should not be married, speak now or forever hold your peace."

Once the pastor said that, a rose broke off the arch and bounced off the pastor's head. Everyone laughed. They ended up getting divorced.

Plumhawk

The bride was 24, an elementary school teacher and the groom was 40-something and a high school English teacher. What a fit.

We got there, and a quarter of the guests were under the age of 18. They were all guests of the groom. We actually wondered at first, but then the couple were teachers.

Then we found out that the bride and her friends were all former students of this teacher. Most of the guests had been a student at this guy's school at one point or another. The couple is now getting a divorce because it turns out, he had a relationship with one of his students.

mollylolly88

My brothers' first wedding. They were both firstborn, with much younger siblings, so they were both very used to being in charge.

Neither knew how to compromise on anything. At the reception, one of the other groomsmen and I stood watching them argue over some piddling little detail. He said, "Give them 2 years." I said, "No, they're both really stubborn. They'll last 5 years."

She walked out after 5 1/2 years. His second wedding. Bride was witchy white trash who could suck the joy out of a room simply by walking into it.

At the reception, some teenage boys from her side of the family came in in ski masks with fake guns and "kidnapped" her for "ransom."

Our family was really uncomfortable with this, but we played along and kicked in cash (which did go to the couple). They lasted 16 Years and 2 kids, but it was awful due to her terrible personality. She ended up cheating on him and leaving him.

[deleted]

One of my childhood friends got married at 17 to her boyfriend of less than three months. At first, I thought, well, I know plenty of older couples that married within a month. I was made a bridesmaid, so I was behind the scenes for the clown show.

The first thing that I noticed was wrong: he called her by the wrong name throughout their engagement. She has an unusual name, so I let it pass because I always called her "T" growing up.

Second thing, the groom invited his ex-girlfriend to the wedding. You know, if you were good friends with your ex, I can see maybe inviting them, but not a girl who will show up and cry the whole ceremony.

Third, the condom piñata. Fourth, the bride's mother was so drunk during the reception she admitted that the bride's younger brother was the product of an affair with one of her patients in front of the bride's father, her husband.

Last but not least, the groom's father would not shut up about how he thought the whole thing was a mistake and how his son deserved a real woman.

He made some lovely racial comments as well to the bride's family. And when the bride asked the groom to get his father to stop, the groom replied that she should just get used to it.

[deleted]

I'm a Wedding DJ. I was given a request by the bride, maybe an hour into what was scheduled to be a 3-hour dance. Normally, when I get a request from either the bride or groom, I will ask them, "Do you want that now or at some point later?" especially if the song is not in the genre I am playing.

She told me that she wanted it now, so I queued it up on the deck that wasn't playing the current song. She walked away happy, expecting that her song would be next.

Immediately after she left my table, the groom walked up to me and asked me what she requested. I show him, he half-laughs and tells me not to play it.

Conflicted and surprised, I asked him, "Why not?" to which he replied, "She's an idiot. That song sucks." I was dumbfounded, lol.

If you respond like that to a single song in a three-hour dance, then there's no way that you are going to respond well to something more serious when it comes up in the future. Among DJs, we call people like this "repeat customers."

bigfootgame

It was probably too late to the party, but for me, it was when my husband first said to me after our vows: "Now, if you leave me, I get half of everything you have."

He said that with a big, giddy grin on his face. I was so shocked I stopped walking and just stared at him. Why did he have to say that?

He didn't notice till he got to the car and then hollered at me to hurry up. Lasted about three years, which was about three years too long.

ClusterHugtastic

Last year one of my friends got married at a beautiful wedding. Her husband refused to dance at all because he said he didn't like to.

She finally convinced him after a screaming match from the parking lot that everyone heard. While dancing, she was looking at him lovingly, and he just stared over her and off into space.

Immediately after, he walked off with his groomsmen, and they smoked behind one of the buildings and got hammered drunk off moonshine.

He spent no time at all with family or anyone else at the wedding. The divorce was finalized a couple of weeks ago. That was their best move.

HeartachetoHouston

Cousins wedding, The groom was the type of juiced-up douchebag with white sunglasses, random fist-pumping, favorite sport, and ultimate frisbee.. lots of "BEER ME BRO" was heard at the wedding.

After the wedding, when you go to the hall for the party, and they enter to music while the DJ introduces them, he comes in fist-pumped a bit.

He then slams the door behind him right in the bride's face. He didn't even realize it, even with the crowd's reaction, and just went on fist-pumping through the crowd to the head table.

fc3sbob

My cousin's wedding. They had been together for about two years and had a baby together. The whole day was about my cousin (the groom). Every speech that was made was about how great of a guy he was, etc.

Spoiler: Cousin is not a great guy. He's an annoying pest. He held me down when I was younger and tried to get another cousin to kiss me.

His mother even forced the bride to make her daughter (the groom's sister) the MOH. The speech she gave was borderline incestuous.

Anyway, during the ceremony, the priest said something about being together forever, and the bride said, "Maybe we'll stay together..." my family immediately started taking bets. Six months won.

blondekay

We went for ice cream with both of them the night before their wedding. They admitted they wanted to do it because it seemed like all their friends were.

They were talking about their major problems, which we already knew, had seen, and heard all the time. They were aware marriage wouldn't fix it but hoped it would.

I just listened. I never said anything the whole night. We just let them talk. I didn't know what to say. It was a cute little wedding. They looked happy, everyone came, and everything went smoothly. Damn shame. Lasted six months.

sauerpatchkid

My (current) husband got married to a woman who had cheated on every guy she'd ever dated. He knew it was a bad idea. We all knew it was a bad idea.

Spoiler alert! She cheated on him because marrying a cheater is a bad idea (she was ~4mo pregnant at the time). He filed for divorce after 11 whole months.

It was finalized about a year later because the judge kept postponing the hearings because he had tee times. Yes, I was at my husband's first wedding, which is not weird at all, I swear.

neuro_gal

My Dad at his third wedding. They were dancing, and she was looking at him so lovingly. She was so happy. And he looked like he was forcing a smile.

Either everyone was just being polite, or I guess they didn't know him well enough to see. He didn't love her. I knew it would go bad then.

I mean, they told me they were getting married cause they figured they would eventually anyway, and he needed health insurance.

I guess I figured it could maybe work until I saw that wedding. He’s on marriage number four now. I didn't go to that wedding to see if he was being genuine. My dad is a scumbag.

FireteamAccount

When I was in college, my friend married this guy she met on a "sugar daddy" matching service. He was a relatively rich guy, some sort of surgeon or something.

They had this crazy expensive wedding, probably 50-70k dollars spent on the ceremony. The guy obviously spent a lot but didn't seem to be the "super" rich guy she'd touted him to be.

When everything was all said and done, we were at the reception. After a few drinks, she started sobbing because she was pissed that he would only pay for a 3-week honeymoon in France, not the whole two months she had planned.

Blktoofpirate

My cousin was the groom. At the reception, the maid of honor gave a speech that began with, "When I first met Becky, I hated her..."

She then talked about how, when Becky would date men in college, she and the rest of Becky's friends would wait for Becky to dump the guys so they could date them.

So obviously, when Becky started dating my cousin, all of Becky's friends waited for her to dump him so that they could date him.

They got divorced about a year or two later, and my cousin has since married someone else and now has a blended family. No, the new wife is not one of Becky's friends.

SpeakeasyImprov

I once went to an awful wedding where it was horribly hot and humid, and the place wasn't air-conditioned. The guests were all talking about it.

Between the ceremony and the reception, the couple spent almost two hours taking formal pictures and messing around, and everyone was sitting at tables waiting for food to be served the whole time.

People were nearly passing out from hunger and heat exhaustion. But the real kicker was that the bride's girlfriend (who was one of the bridesmaids) was staring daggers at her the whole time and generally being hostile to everyone.

willywag

My friend, his fiance, my now ex-wife, and I were a pretty tight foursome. My ex didn't have many friends, so I was ecstatic when the girls hit it off.

Over time, I got suspicious that the friend's fiance had a bit of a crush on my ex. No big deal; she is a stunner, and I still wouldn't blame anyone for being attracted to her.

Anyway, the ex and I talked about it, and she got a similar vibe. She continued to hang out with her but made sure there were always other people around, or they were out in public.

My ex really was worried about being put in a position where she had to actually reject her. The night of my friend's wedding, the bride gets drunk and doesn't want to leave the reception.

When things finally shut down, the ex and I helped my buddy get his new wife across the street to their hotel. The entire time, the bride is begging my ex to spend the night with her and telling us all the fun the four of us could have together.

Our night ended with the bride literally crying because we were leaving and my buddy holding her back as he shut the hotel room door.

TechnoDiscoHippyDeVo

On my sister's wedding day, her soon-to-be mother-in-law sits her down and begs her not to marry her son. Nobody, including my sister, had met his parents before they came from out of state for the wedding.

We just thought she was a horrible person. My sister married him anyway. He was a charmer. He got the whole family to like him, which was a task because he was 16 years older and she was only 18.

The family wasn't comfortable with that. As soon as they got married and moved in together (they hadn't lived together before), she realized that he was a cruel guy and an alcoholic.

She stuck it out for 15 years. We thought the mother was horrible, but she was trying to help my sister. We regretted that judgment, tho.

pastryfiend

A former friend of mine lost his engagement ring 'exploring' the area between the legs of a random lady he'd encountered two days before he was due to be married.

The woman called during the best man's speech; the former friend, being not of sound mind (drunk), put the call on speakerphone.  

All the guests heard how she'd found the ring in her knickers the next day, and if he came round to get it, she would let him stick his fingers in her again. Utter silence. The best man coughed and continued with his speech. Divorced six weeks later.

DemonicSquid

My dad's has a unique ability to immediately pick out the little things that make someone a scumbag. The groom was wearing a pair of old running shoes.

For the record, he wasn't poor. Everyone else, including his groomsmen and best man, were wearing dress shoes. My dad leans over to me and says, "What kind of a man wears running shoes to a black-tie wedding?"

The groom ran alright, about a month later, when he suddenly decided he didn't want to be tied down. Packed up to travel the world alone.

Fortunately, my cousin found a decent guy after that whole mess. Been happily married for ten years this month. She deserved that.

If a man's not committed enough to dress appropriately at his own wedding, he's probably not committed to the relationship.

[deleted]

My cousin's wedding rang some alarm bells when their engagement party turned into a surprise wedding. That was not so bad.

But it was almost to the wedding I was planning for three months down the track, which the bride had casually questioned me about a month or so prior.

Ours was a fairly unusual wedding with many non-traditional elements, so it wasn't like we both had a similar church wedding or anything like that. I know they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but I call it crap. I'm still with my husband.

the_procrastinata

This was my GF's cousin's wedding. Let's call her...Priscilla. The consensus among my GF's family is that Priscilla is a witch. She's selfish, rude, and spoiled.

She's had no real jobs. Her "job" is that she works at a stable a couple of times a week so that she can ride horses whenever she wants.

You know, the kind of job you'd have in high school. She has no career prospects and doesn't really care. Anyway, she has her parents pay for a $40,000 wedding.

I may be exaggerating a bit, but not by too much, and at the reception, everyone calls for the father to give a speech. I think that was a bad idea.

He stands up stone-faced and says, "For 29 years, Priscilla has been demanding, controlling, and obnoxious. All I can say is...She's your problem now."

Then he sat down again and resumed drinking. The wedding itself was a total clown show, but that's a story for another time.

SpiderAndBee

My cousin's fiancé was a manipulative witch who had him and his parents wrapped around her finger. They had broken up in the past because she cheated, and she manipulated her way back into his life.

She did it by claiming her mom kicked her out and had no place to stay so my cousin would feel sorry for her and let her stay with him. Meanwhile, she would talk bad about him behind his back to anyone who would listen.

She told my sister-in-law that my cousin was extorting her for making out and that if she didn't have a sexy time with him, he'd kick her out.

My SIL didn't believe it for one second but tried to warn my cousin and his parents of what she was saying and how it was a very serious accusation that could potentially ruin his life if she tried to take it so far as to lie to the police or something.

They flipped out on my SIL and took her side when she denied ever saying anything like what SIL said she did. At the wedding when my now married Cusino and his new bride gave their speeches.

Bride’s speech started with the line, "Well, my new father-in-law and husband have already thanked everyone that helped make this reception and wedding possible, so I'm not going to bother doing it." My SIL turns to me and says, "Give them 2yrs tops." They divorced 1yr, and a few months later.

winterfresh515

One of my cousin's weddings. He's not a horrible person, but he's sloppy and doesn't really do the whole hygiene thing. It's really annoying, too. Somehow, he lucked his way into being pretty wealthy.

Gets engaged to some chick who clearly isn't into him. I overheard her friends talking about how gross the groom/wedding was and how it shouldn't be worth it to them/there was no way she would put up with it for long.

Pregnancy announcement ~18 months later, she dumps him within weeks. He got played hard. he really isn't the kind of dude that deserved it, but I still can't be too mad at him since he's an annoying slob, and it was transparent.

[deleted]

The "wedding" was a hasty trip to the local Justice of the Peace, followed by an awkward evening chit-chatting in the Bride's parent's living room.

The groom seemed completely unconcerned that his new wife wanted to spend some time alone to consummate the marriage.

I was the Bride. I eventually gave up on my planned evening of fun, changed into some fuzzy pajamas, and went to sleep by myself while he played video games all night. We've almost lasted four years so far.

That was the first red flag of many, including him coming home drunk from hanging with friends on our first anniversary and puking on the floor, and I plan on leaving him and filing for divorce in the next month.

I'm looking forward to making a new life for myself that I'll actually be proud of, but I can't help but feel a huge weight of guilt that I'll completely crush him.

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