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Mum asks if women would still marry their partner if they could go back in time and the brutally honest replies will shock you

Mumsnet users took to the forum to explain whether they would go back to their wedding day and marry their husbands again

MARRIED people were asked if they would go back and marry their partners knowing what they do now, and the results are shocking.

The question was asked on and the surprising answers may leave you speechless.

 The thread was started on Mumsnet
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The thread was started on MumsnetCredit: Getty - Contributor

Constantchange asked: "If you could go back to the year you married your husband/wife, would you still marry them, knowing everything you do about them now that you didn't back then?"

Amusedbush said: "No. I  love the bones of him and I have no plans to leave, but I wouldn't choose this life for myself if I could do it over."

Her brutally honest answer is just one of many more shock replies.

Cuban8 gave a intimate insight into his marriage: " My wife is intelligent, caring, devoted mother, fit, compassionate, loyal, a wonderful role model, beautiful. But the marriage is almost dead and I want to leave."

 This woman was open about her husband's lack of financial contribution
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This woman was open about her husband's lack of financial contributionCredit: Mumsnet

Some were quick to explain without their significant others they wouldn't have their children and didn't want to think of a life without them.

But, ThumbWitchesAbroad said: "If I'd never got pregnant by him, then probably no.

"I do still love him but things would have been much simpler for me if I hadn't married him."

MrsLion justified her reasons for saying no: "His awful family, not being able to live where I want.. to name only a couple."

She added that her life could have been "much better" with someone else.

JamieFraserskneewarmer said that her husband admitted to lying to her early in their relationship, but she is avoiding a divorce for the sake of her children.

She explained: " I have ended up married to a selfish lazy old man with whom I have very very little in common and no physical relationship to speak of."

 Some women explained they were only with their husbands for the sake of their children
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Some women explained they were only with their husbands for the sake of their childrenCredit: Getty - Contributor

Sosog00d said that her abusive husband has wounded her but she is optimistic that it will "all be ok".

PinkSparklyPussyCat said the only thing she'd change about her marriage was that she'd do it sooner.

Rocketgirl22 explained her reasons for saying yes: "Married for 15 years and wish I had met him when I was younger and we would have time for one more child.

"He is my world, I am his, we belong together and it has always been this way".

 This woman explains that timing is everything
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This woman explains that timing is everything

Widowed Morningconstitutional2017 wished she had a "magic wand" to prevent her husband's decline from motor neurone disease.

She explained: "Yes, I most definitely would, even knowing that he would die in middle age."

Scaryteacher explained her secret to 32 happily married years: "He still makes my world go round, makes me laugh, makes me tea in bed every morning, and understands me like nobody else does."

 A lot of the time, a couples' family may get in the middle of their marriage
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A lot of the time, a couples' family may get in the middle of their marriageCredit: Getty - Contributor

Straight-speaking Dementedma admitted that without a marriage and kids she'd "have a life instead".

Hungryhippo90 said that her husband was a terrible boyfriend but he "committed himself to being the very best husband that he can be".

RosaDeZoett admitted her relationship's problems with humour, by saying: "He doesn't find me funny, which is proof absolute that he's not listening. Because I'm absolutely HILARIOUS!"

She ends by saying her relationship will probably end in divorce though.

 

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