10 People Who Married Their Ex Again and Finally Saw Whole Truth

Sometimes love doesn’t end cleanly — it pauses. When people remarry their exes, it’s often fueled by nostalgia, regret, or the hope that time has changed everything. But sometimes second chances don’t always mean happy endings.

• My ridiculous coworker divorced her husband because he said something like, “You can’t live without me.” She divorced him to prove a point but then remarried him, so I guess he really proved his point. © DarwinTheIkeaMonkey / Reddit

• My parents (well, my stepmom and dad) got married young—he was 18, she was 16. I guess that was more common back then. They had two kids but ended up getting divorced. My dad had another child, then married my biological mom and had me. Sadly, my mom passed away from cancer, so it was just my dad and me for a few years.
  Then, my oldest (half) sister was having her first baby, so we visited. Naturally, her mom was there too. That’s when my dad and my stepmom reconnected. A few years later, she officially adopted me.
  That was 20 years ago, and they’re still going strong. I’ve known her for more than two-thirds of my life, and she’s as good as a mother to me as anyone could ever be. © Panthicanes / Reddit

• My husband and I got divorced and remarried. I got pregnant about 6 months into the marriage and he became a different person. He would nonstop text me throughout the day about his many fantasies. It became overwhelming. I didn’t feel like his wife, just an object.
  I wish I could say I saw this side of him before so I could’ve made a more informed decision about our future. If anything, so that we could’ve had therapy. But being in the state I was in and emotional already with the pregnancy. I asked for a divorce. I couldn’t handle all of that from him and be a new mom.
  We were divorced for a 1.5 years. We both sought therapy in between that time. We knew we loved each other and decided to remarry. Our only stipulation before we remarried was to attend couples therapy so that we get all of our past out so that we could move forward. We have been remarried now for 3 years, and it’s great. If anything, I look at that divorce as a blessing for us. It helped us get where we needed to be.
  Looking back at it, did I make a decision about divorce too soon? Maybe, but I tend to think that it brought us where we are today. © visjac / Reddit

• My wife proposed an open relationship. She had a crush for a coworker for a while. I agreed but quietly filed for divorce. She came back, saying she hated it. We remarried.
  6 months later, I got the envelope. When I opened it, I burst into tears. There were photos of her texts with this coworker. It turned out that she hadn’t stopped communicating with him even after we remarried. She had actually been meeting up with him a couple of times a month. We’re divorced again. I don’t believe in love anymore.

• We divorced because I couldn’t give him a child. Years later, he came back softer, kinder, saying he’d realized love mattered more than family plans. We remarried. Six months in, he asked if I’d ever considered getting tested again, just to “have answers.” That’s when I found the fertility clinic receipts. My heart froze when he told me he had a child from the years we were apart. He wasn’t checking if I could give him something. He was trying to see if I could love him now that he already had it.

• Not me, but my parents. They married and had me at a young age. They were very different people in every way, with nothing in common. My mom struggled with depression. They divorced for a brief period when I was really young, but I don’t ever recall knowing they were actually divorced. I never asked why, but my understanding is that things were just difficult, so they split, but realized quickly they wanted to work things out.
  They got back together, though they didn’t officially remarry for years. I was 8 when they said, “We’re getting remarried!” and that was the first time I found out they were actually divorced. They’ve been together for 36 years now. © lettiadash / Reddit

• Wife and I had a child arguably way too early in our relationship, before getting married. Moved up the wedding to be married before having a kid, because, you know. Lots of financial troubles, difficulty in general, family troubles, plus having a child lead and the difficulties that come with that, lead to divorce. We were separated for a bit under a year, I was with another girl for a few months, then ended up reconciling. Had another child. Went through with the divorce because my wife wanted to “end that relationship officially.” Stayed together for a few years in that circumstance. Eventually remarried and then had our third. Still together after a decade years. © RealisticIllusions82 / Reddit

• My mom and dad married right after high school. When they were 26, they got divorced. The divorce was mainly due to the stress of raising three kids, my dad being in the Air Force and constantly deployed, and, while neither parent has confirmed it, based on some jokes, I believe my dad was also unfaithful. He was generally very immature. My mom left him because, in her words, she had "three kids to take care of, grad school to get through, and didn't have time for his nonsense."
  They both went on to have different relationships and lives. They barely saw each other unless it was to trade us kids off. But then, around the time my sister and I started playing sports, my dad started showing up more to watch us. We lived about six hours away, and my mom let him stay at the house when needed. He went from sleeping on the couch to her bedroom within a football season. They got remarried the following summer, after being apart for 6-7 years. They've been together ever since and practically do everything together. © crimsoneagle1 / Reddit

• My grandpa married my grandma. Then he divorced her and married another woman. Than he divorced that woman and remarried my grandma. Then he divorced my grandma and remarried the second woman again. © hzzzln / Reddit

• My wife and I had a year-long fight. We married young, at 22, and weren’t on the same page about being married. She wanted to sow her wild oats, while I wanted us to start growing up and taking on more responsibility.
  We ultimately got divorced, at my urging, because I wanted to move on.
  About a month after the divorce was final, we started talking to each other like adults. We had some tough conversations about what wasn’t working. After cautiously considering if we were crazy, we started dating again.
  A year later, we got married in Vegas. It’s been 16 years since the divorce, and we’re happily married with two great kids. Our journey has taken some wrong turns, but it’s our journey, and we wouldn’t change it for anything.
  The lesson we share with anyone who asks is that getting married young isn’t for everyone. Don’t rush into a relationship. Make sure to take time to be yourself and appreciate your partner for who they are, not who you want them to be. © brokenindu / Reddit

Remarrying an ex isn’t proof of love’s endurance. For some, it brought clarity. For others, it reopened wounds they thought had healed. What all these stories have in common is this — the past doesn’t disappear just because you say “I do” again.