Everyone has heard of people hiding things before marriage. Maybe it’s credit card debt or an embarrassing hobby. But one client of TikToker Salma’s (@salmayourlawyerbigsis) discovered something much bigger.
Salma is a lawyer, and she helped one woman get out of a brand-new marriage as a favor to her sister.
So, this woman’s fiancé was fired from his job about a month before their wedding, and instead of telling her that he was fired, he just continued pretending to go to work.
Two months after they were legally married, she found out that he was unemployed.
They live together in a Chicago suburb. He takes the train to his job while she works from home. A month before their wedding, he got into a fight with his manager and got fired.
He proceeded to get up every morning at 6:30, took a train into the city, and frequented bars, coffee shops, and museums.
Eventually, they got married and went on their honeymoon. About a month or two after they got married, she decided to surprise him at work with his favorite treats. But when she arrived at his office, she was told that he hadn’t worked there in months. She was absolutely flabbergasted.
They hadn’t combined their finances yet because they were still in the process of figuring out what they were going to do. When she confronted him, he cried and pleaded with her, saying that he had been too embarrassed to tell her the truth.
He just didn’t want to admit he was a failure. He claimed to be applying for jobs but wasn’t able to find anything yet.
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She tried to give him the benefit of the doubt, but he still couldn’t find a job. He started playing a lot of video games and racked up a bunch of credit card debt. Their marriage lasted just seven months.
According to Salma, annulment was not an option in this case because he did not entice her into the marriage with his employment, and the woman stayed with him too long after discovering the “fraud.”
In the comments section, some TikTok users expressed their thoughts on the story.
“I got an annulment after 10 years of marriage based on fraud. I said had I known who he really was, I would have never married him. I just had to pay the filing fee, and it was granted,” commented one user.
“I don’t know why people get married. Go ahead and cohabitate, but the legal ramifications of marriage are just too dire,” stated another.
“I’m assuming she was more hurt by the betrayal than anything because I feel like giving up on someone after seven months feels extreme. For better or worse went out the window quickly,” wrote someone else.
By Emily Chan
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