Sham marriage Puns

My mom is pretty and my dad is not good looking. It was not something I even thought about but one asshole went through my insta found pictures of me with my parents and then started make fun of me for being a child of rich ugly guy and his trophy wife. It was really awful and a lot of people made fun of me and even my friends would casually poke at me about it. I defended my parents because I knew that they loved each other.

I have not really talked about this with them but I am close to my aunt and I was whining about something that happened that day. She said they were idiots but I was old enough to know that it was kinda true. She told me that mom was reluctant to go out with him at first and then did convince herself to go out with him because he was rich.

I feel like such an idiot, I thought they loved each other and I was so confident about it. I was mean to a lot of my friends and it is true, Their marriage is a sham. I really fucking hate this. That night, I was kinda quiet but when dad asked me why I was so quiet and I don't know I just expolded and yelled at them about what aunt had told me. I said aunt had told me how their relationship had actually started and It had fucked me up. Mom looked guilty and I knew it was true, I have not been talking to my parents. I know my parents are really sad about this but I just feel like an huge idiot who couldn't see what was before her. I feel so horrible, I really wish my aunt hadn't told me this and I just feel so fucked up right now.

EDIT : I will be 16 next week

Sometimes I forget that the marriage is a sham because I would be reading and they just act like a family I know they point it out a lot but they just act like a family

A little context. My parents have long since been divorced for over 20 years and since that time dad has been married two times with his current wife being stepmom#2. I am a point with my relationship with them to never visit them or go somewhere in a social setting with them as I can never find a time where they were not arguing about something. No matter how ridiculous it was.... So back to my intial question. We were invited to my dad's house for a family meal to celebrate my sister getting her master's degree in surgical technology. We are all eating and chatting until dad said something that somehow ticked stepmom off. Bickering turns to arguing, arguing turns to screaming, and screaming turns to yelling profanities at each other. After everyone at the table were silently watching this unfold looking increasingly uncomfortable. I reached a boiling point. I slammed both hands down on the table and (by the grace of God still had my sanity told everyone to pack up and go home) when everyone left I LIT into my dad and step mom which boiled down to me saying to either seek marriage counseling or consider divorce as clearly something is wrong with this arrangement. And made it clear I refuse to be anywhere near them as they are always arguing and it's embarrassing and uncomfortable for those present. So I ask, Am I the asshole for telling them they need to seriously make a decision on the future of their relationship?

My FWB (28 M) and I (25 M) had been regularly hooking up until last year when he decided to get married. TO A WOMAN.

He is an extremely closeted homosexual man from a conservative family. One day he tells me that he is getting married due to "family pressure". Before they got engaged he would tell me how he was depressed and how he didn't want to do it. He was scared that he would be living a lie. He went through with the engagement anyway. He started claiming that he was bisexual and suddenly turned a new leaf. He was suddenly "ecstatic" and "looking forward to it". Through all this I never once expressed my utter disdain towards the events.

Since then I have often found him looking for hookups on gay dating apps and often texts me on Snapchat. He claims to me that he has a green light to hookup with men. I find this claim to be very false because of the secretive nature of his activities.

The matters came to head when he decided to give unsolicited advice about my dating life. About how I should learn how to compromise blah blah. In a state of anger, I sarcastically told him that he should not be giving relationship advice considering how he married a woman despite the nature of his sexuality.

He got terribly upset and angry. He was in complete disbelief that I was implying that he was deceiving his wife. He also said that he felt insulted because he was only trying to "help me" and how I could have been more "courteous".

I feel like he has effectively ruined this poor woman's life who has no idea what her husband is doing behind her back and shouldn't be lecturing me about healthy relationships.

So, AITA?

Edit 1: I feel like he could have decided to just not marry at all and could have been stubborn about it.

Edit 2:

For better clarity i have added a few incidents here to explain why his bisexual claim lacks credibility with me.

I also want to be clear regarding my relationship with him. Since his engagement, i have not hooked up with him. We barely talk.

Those who think I'm letting my feelings for him get the better of me: I am in a very happy monogamous relationship with a beautiful man whom I love very much

Edit 3:

My personal opinion on people's assertion that I should tell his wife [here.](https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/imzz2p/aita_if_i_called_my_exfwbs_marria

This may be a controversial opinion and I’m very open to other interpretations, but I found Alba’s spontaneous sham marriage to Jorge so unconvincing. Alba is a woman set in her ways, of deep principle (even though I disagree with those principals most of the time). She talks constantly about her relationship to god and being accountable to god, then undertakes a holy sacrament (even if Jane says god isn’t the one who gave her the power to officiate marriages). Also given how strong Alba’s feelings were for Mateo and how adamant she was that she would never marry again, I’m just finding this marriage a really obvious and poorly written plot device? Very much feels like her successful US citizenship status and party was overshadowed by Jorge’s announcement about his mother, which was sad but also nothing to do with Alba. I felt like we had a moment where Alba (for all her ups and downs), had a moment to shine and Jorge took that from her when she then immediately fell into line as secondary to a man to support him primarily.

Also can I just express similar levels of cynicism at Alba’s lengthy citizenship speech to her family and friends in English even though Alba has consistently refrained from speaking English throughout series 1-4? Confusing much?

Sure baby, is that a problemo?

I mean he's completely comfortable with going on TV saying it's fine it's fine he's not actually WITH the woman he's married to. And that he's going to get a divorce but "it's complicated". I think this dude 100% married someone on an agreement for a green card, they now live separately and they're waiting it out until they can divorce without him losing the greencard. OR he got a greencard already and helped another dominicana get her greencard through this arrangement. His next move is to then pay it forward by marrying Nicole so he can give her the greencard. Only it seems they actually are in love. He said things like he's ready to settle down, as if him already being married isn't literally him having already settled down.

In a perfect world, you could be with the person you love without the need to hide or pretend.

But if you live in a country that’s less than accepting to LGBT people, idealism isn’t as safe as practicality. If you aren’t ready to come out to loved ones, a marriage of convenience can afford you certain benefits and protections.

Here are two ways a marriage of convenience can help protect your peace of mind. Relieve the Pressure to Marry In Muslim countries, there’s a popular fiction that LGBT people don’t exist. There’s a reason for this.

Homosexuality in Muslim countries is largely regarded as a Western phenomenon. So, despite the fact that many countries have laws that make sodomy punishable by imprisonment or death, large numbers of arrests would call that popular fiction into question (though there are periods of moral panic which use homosexuality as a convenient scapegoat).

The bigger problem is the societal and familial disapproval that underlies these laws. This is intricately entangled in questions of coming out and the pressure to marry.

In many Muslim countries, a young person who fails to marry after completing their studies is equated with social disaster. So, if the single person in question won’t take on the task of getting married, their family does it for them.

Arranging a marriage of convenience on your own terms accomplishes two goals in this area. First, it staves off family interest in the subject. Second, it ensures that you can find someone willing to play along--both sides know exactly what they’re signing up for and won’t become frustrated when the ruse remains nothing more than a ruse. Protect You from Risky Questions This helps protect both of you from potentially dangerous questions.

When you’re facing the question of coming out in a homophobic society, you’re concerned with more than just family acceptance. You also have to think about the views of the community around your family.

Your family may be accepting, but the community may not be. At best, that may leave your family ostracized. At worst, it could leave you or your loved ones at real risk of physical and/or psychological harm.

How a family responds to coming out depends on a number of factors, including social class and relative education levels. Reactions could range from encouraging the person in question to marry to “grow out of it”, to seek a cure through religion or psychiatric means, to physical attacks.

Marriages of convenience come with th

Jax's Dad died and he fell out with his Mom. The only one that was there for him (besides his siblings I guess) was Brittany. That's the only reason he married her. The fear of being abandoned.

My friend is a gay man and has decided that he should marry his other gay friend in order for him to stay in the country. They have no romantic relationship and this is simply a marriage of convenience which will be followed by a quick divorce. He openly admits that this is what it is.

He asked me why i was not congratulating him and i responded that he was not actually getting married in any real sense. He was going through the motions in order to skirt immigration law and thus committing a crime. Why would i celebrate a crime ? One that has no emotion weight and will be dissolved in 2 years ? Why would i celebrate a contract that by its very nature is not valid. Were he marrying soemone he cared about and loved and was building a life together then i woudl be there as his best man, but this is just a fraud.

He has thrown a strop and now claims i am being a bigot and his wedding is just as valid as mine and my Wife's. Even though we are marrying for love and long term companionship.

So am i the asshole ?

Hi friends. I have a friend that lives in one of the gulf countries. She lives in horrible abuse at the hands of male family members. I’m talking 1. Molestation 2. horrible beatings 3. Unbelievable physical control, when her parents leave the home they lock her in the home 4. Verbal abuse 5. Emotional abuse. It’s a terribly toxic situation. I was like let me help you run away. I’ll contact an immigration lawyer. But she refused. Because if she runs away she loses contact with her baby sisters. She protects them from the abuse. So it’s not an option. The only option of for the authority to transfer from her father to her husband. So I don’t know but to me it seems like the only way to help is through a sham marriage. We were thinking if there's anyone in the lgbtq community who was already considering a sham marriage for their own protection, this might be of interest to them too. She can have a LGBTQ male ally to pretend marry her and grant her her freedom and she can still keep in contact with her sisters. I’m a woman, thus can't do this, otherwise I’d help her myself.

Hello! I’m looking for a male (or willing to play as male) partner for a medium-to-long term roleplay, preferably on discord.

I myself am a 19 year old male, and would prefer to play as male for this scenario; however, if you’re interested in the story but would favor a more heterosexual approach, I have experience playing female characters (cis and trans), and am not necessarily opposed to making that switch, if you’d prefer.

The basic idea goes like this: I’m a college student, transferring from my hometown, big city college to a more rural school in the deep south, despite my decidedly “gay, coastal, city-boy” lifestyle. You’re a born and bred southern boy, in the process of taking over your family farm, which has fallen into a rough financial patch. My father has recently passed away, leaving my mother with a medium-sized chunk of cash. It’s not enough to cover the rest of my schooling, but my mom comes up with a somewhat “outside the box” plan: use the money to pay someone to legally marry me for the remainder of my college years to secure a cheaper, in-state tuition. I think you can probably see where this goes: you’re not gay, but you’re adventurous, you figure you could put the money to good use, and it’s just a few years, we’ll get divorced, and be on our way. It doesn’t even ever have to be public, it’ll just be like having a roommate.

Of course, that’s not the way I want things to end up! We can figure out together how exactly we want the process to go, but i’m hoping for a sort of wary mistrust, to cautious friends, to bromance, to genuine partners path for our characters. I know it’s kind of corny but I love the city boy/country boy dynamic, and i’d love to find someone willing to indulge me!

Questions? Suggestions? I’m open to modifications, so if you’re even a little intrigued, don’t hesitate to reach out! I’d love to hear from you ☺️.