Man Wants a Divorce After 18 Days of Marriage When He Finds NSFW Photos Wife Sent to Her Ex

Less than three weeks into his marriage, a man turned to Reddit for guidance after stumbling on something he says he never expected to see.

In a post shared online, he explained that he and his wife married on Oct. 31. Not long after the wedding, he was helping her prepare material for an upcoming custody case involving her ex-husband. While taking screenshots from her phone, he noticed several topless photos of his wife that he didn’t recognize.

“I save all the spicy photos she sends me in a private photo folder,” he wrote. “None of these were in there.”

The discovery pushed him to do something he admitted he wouldn’t normally do: check her message history with her ex. What he found, he said, left him stunned. The photos had been sent to her former husband in June — after the couple had already applied for a marriage certificate.

According to the man, his wife told him she slept with her ex during a brief breakup. But he said the timeline doesn’t add up.

“She claims that she did in fact have sex with him when we were on a small break,” he wrote, “but the photos were sent 17 days after we had officially been together and had applied for a marriage certificate.” He added that they had already chosen a wedding date and that he doesn’t remember any break happening when she says it did.

Feeling betrayed, he said divorce seemed like the only option. “I obviously want a divorce as I can’t trust her,” he wrote. At the same time, he said he felt torn because he had grown attached to her three children.

Even if he left, he planned to keep paying half the rent and utilities so the kids wouldn’t “be on the street or in a hotel,” he said.

He also shared that his wife begged him not to walk away, but he couldn’t shake the feeling that her actions mattered more than her apologies. “I just feel like crap,” he wrote. “I never would have seen this coming and I thought this was my one and only.”

He asked the community whether he was wrong for looking through her phone and for wanting to end the marriage so soon after it began.

Most commenters strongly backed him. One told him he wasn’t at fault and suggested pursuing an annulment, arguing that trust had already been broken. Another pointed out that the uncertainty over whether they were even “on a break” months before the wedding was a red flag on its own.

“You’re in a relationship where you’re not even sure if you were ‘on a break’ or not six months before the wedding,” one user wrote. “It’s time to cut your losses.”