Marriage Stories

He didn't break her all at once. He taught her how to shatter herself. To everyone watching, she has the life girls dream of : money, beauty, a powerful husband, and a marriage wrapped in perfection. But behind their locked doors, perfection is the punishment she can never escape. He tells her who to be. He tells her how to walk, how to breathe, how to think. Every mistake is a lesson. Every bruise is a reminder. Every betrayal is somehow her fault. And she believes him. Because after years of being molded, corrected, and rewritten, she no longer remembers who she was before he decided to "fix" her. She only knows the rules he carved into her bones. Don't speak too loudly. Don't ask questions. Don't look at him when he's angry. Don't look away when he wants your attention. And above all Don't ever forget that love is earned, not given. Her sister whispers that she's losing herself. Her friends say they're worried. Her subconscious screams that something is wrong. But she silences all of them. Because she is so close so close to becoming the perfect wife, he swears she could be if she tries a little harder. And if she can be perfect... Maybe he'll finally love her. Or maybe perfection is the very thing that will destroy her. *This story depicts domestic and emotional abuse. These scenes are fictional and not meant to glorify or romanticize abuse. If you are in a harmful or unsafe situation, please reach out for help: 1-800-799-7233 (SAFE) thehotline.org You deserve safety.

Three years into their marriage, Alexander's first love returns-with a five-year-old son. That night, Elsa finally gives up on the man she has loved for most of her life. She places the divorce papers in front of him. "Let's get divorced." Alexander only smiles. "You? Leave me?" So Elsa does. She walks away, rebuilds her life, and becomes a world-renowned insomnia specialist. Soon, princes, billionaires, and powerful men are lining up for her attention. Then Elsa makes one simple promise: "Whoever helps me get this divorce gets a date with me." Alexander's world turns upside down. Divorce lawyers arrive. Billion-dollar deals fall apart. Rivals begin circling the woman he once believed would never leave. Only then does he realize- Elsa no longer loves him. When she looks him in the eye and says, "Just sign the papers," Alexander finally loses control. He pulls her into his arms, eyes burning red. "You want a divorce?" "Over my dead body."

〔Book - 1 in Hyderabad Series 〕 Aaliya Farooqi 22 | Soft-hearted, clever, faithful, and an orphan who has spent years yearning to escape a life she never chose. On the day of her marriage to her cousin, Aaliya finally takes the chance to flee her family and the fate they have decided for her only to run straight into another kind of danger. Zavian Syed Qureshi 29 | A name that strikes terror and commands respect across Hyderabad. An orphan with a cold heart, a ruthless nature, and an unstoppable will, Zavian has built his world on power, silence, and fear. He trusts no one and believes faith is nothing but a weakness though somewhere beneath all that darkness, a faint flicker of humanity still remains. Until a runaway bride lands in his car, using it as her hiding place, while a gun is pressed to her head. One runaway bride. One feared mobster. One secret contract marriage that could cost them both everything. In the shadows of Hyderabad, survival isn't guaranteed... and love might just be the deadliest risk of all. ─── ⋆⋅ ☾⋅⋆ ───

Valerie Anderson was once happily married to the man she vowed to spend the rest of her life with. Every day was like a dream to both parties, until a mishap happened that drove the two apart. What will happen when her ex-husband, Damian Everson, is suddenly back in the picture? Will they be able to resolve their problems or will the grudge he holds against her stand until the end of time?

Alana has always found comfort in her bedroom, especially now with the Crown Prince of Greece warming her bed, but she never thought it'd spark disaster. *** Alana dislikes change. She's perfectly happy with her life until her father decides to ship her and the family off to Australia. In an act of rebellion, Alana refuses to find a job, instead choosing to spend her time sleeping with Phillip, a man with a body of a Greek God. But when things turn sideways and she ends up pregnant with the prince's baby, Alana realizes she's stumbled upon a lot more change and responsibilities than she has bargained for. Content/Trigger Warning: this story contains mentions of violence and abortion [[word count: 60,000-70,000 words]]

ဒီ ရပ်ဝန်းလေးကို နှစ်သက်မိသွားပြီ.... ဒါဆို ဒီနေရာ ဒီရပ်ဝန်းလေးမှာလိုလိုလားလား ငါရဲ့အချိန်တွေကိုဖြုန်းလိုက်တော့မယ်.... ဇွဲလျှံဘုန်းတင့်.... Start Date May26 2026

"Is she your wife?" she asked hesitantly. "Yes", Avishek said no more. Is he not going to introduce me? I should leave. It's clear, they wanted to be alone, to talk about whatever the hell they wanted to talk. I managed a smile and said, "I'll wait in the car", and left before anyone said anything. I walked out of the café, walked to the car, opened the door and flopped into the passenger seat. She's back. The love of his life, she's back. Whenever my mind wandered about Avishek's past, I had always pictured that girl as this beautiful woman who turned heads when she walked into the room. I was right. Ruchika was beautiful. Even with dark circles under her eyes, messy hair that looked like she hadn't washed it for days, her tired smile, she was still beautiful. I could only imagine how she was when they were young. Why now though? After all these years?

IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ BEFORE STARTING ❤️ This story is currently marked Complete, but please note that the latter half of the story is a temporary/current version. After my exams, I will be rewriting the second half of the story, including the redemption arc, because I feel that some emotions, character development and the deeper message I wanted to convey were not expressed strongly enough through my writing. The current version will remain available for now, so new readers are welcome to read it as it is. ❤️ The rewritten version will have stronger emotional depth, more developed character growth, and a more gradual and clearly earned redemption, so that the storyline and its intended message are conveyed better. Please keep this in mind before starting the story. ❤️ Thank you for reading and supporting my work. 🫶🏻 .................. For six years, Anushree Shekhawat endured hatred, humiliation, and accusations she never deserved-all for the sake of her son. Branded a curse, treated like a servant, and abandoned by the man who should have protected her, she silently carried the weight of everyone else's mistakes. But when the truth finally comes out, regrets arrive too late. Choosing herself for the first time, Anushree returns to the family she left behind, taking her son with her. Now Rajveer Shekhawat, a powerful CEO haunted by his actions, must fight for the forgiveness of the woman he broke and the family he never deserved. A story of heartbreak, healing, redemption, and finding your way back home.

Anaya spent six years hiding the truth. Six years raising her son alone. Six years convincing herself that the man who broke her heart would never return. Then Aarav Malhotra walks back into her life. Richer. More powerful. More dangerous. And completely unaware that the little boy staring at him from across the room is his son. Anaya should stay away from him. She should protect the life she built without him. But every stolen glance, every accidental touch, every moment spent together reminds her why she loved him in the first place. The problem? The past isn't done with them. Old betrayals are resurfacing. Enemies are watching. And the secret Anaya has guarded for years is only one step away from being exposed. When Aarav finally discovers the truth, everything changes. Because losing Anaya once was his biggest mistake. And losing his family? That's a mistake he's willing to destroy anyone to prevent. He never forgot her. She never forgave him. And neither of them expected the little boy who could change everything.

Aarohi thought loneliness belonged to empty rooms, until she got married. Living in a bustling, multi-generational household, she finds herself trapped in a marriage where physical closeness is a nightly routine, but emotional intimacy is entirely absent. When the profound isolation drives her into a dark, hyper-vigilant psychological corner, the birth of her daughter becomes her ultimate sanctuary. What follows is a gripping, emotionally raw exploration of suppressed trauma, silent crying, and a mother's desperate attempt to build a fortress around her child-until a sudden crisis forces a fractured family to confront the destructive power of their own silence. "When the duty of a husband isn't enough to save a wife from drowning."

Story about yug and ehaana, yug was in love with idha elder sister of ehaana . They were a perfect couple, but circumstances forced yug to marry, ehaana. Yug couldn't move on from idha , ehaana silently gave up on their marriage. They were like roommates who living together, without any love , obligation towards each other. Will yug ever be able to forget idha and love ehaana? This story is about the emotional struggle of yug who can't forget his first love and ehaana who died everyday in this relationship. His lost love ***

ORGINALLY A 'PAID' STORY. NOW PUBLISHED ON AMAZON/KU *** 4 CHAPTER SAMPLE HERE *** Jake Bryant must stop the criminal mastermind who orchestrated the murder of his best friend from killing his new family. ***** More dark secrets from Jake Bryant's past come to light. Dolan, the criminal mastermind who ordered the hit on Jake's best friend, Tom, is searching for evidence Tom collected against him for another murder - evidence Tom hid with his widow before his death. Desperate to bring Dolan to justice, Jake finds himself in a race against time to save the lives of those he loves. But with allies double-crossing him left and right, Jake must discover who he can trust before Tom's family is destroyed along with the evidence. Can Jake win the race or will he die just like his friend? [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]

In a home where love was a currency, she was always bankrupt. Her parents' affection was reserved for the twin who reflected their every hope, leaving her to inherit the hushed comparisons and soft dismissals. She was constantly reminded of her lesser worth, but she never imagined her marriage would be a cast-off from the twin who was truly desired. Offered as a consolation prize, she expects only disappointment in a loveless union. Yet, the journey of marriage becomes an unexpected path to self-discovery. The Color Of My Own Sky is a story of the invisible bruises that shape a soul, and the battle to finally find the courage to paint your own brilliant horizon. Nov. 3 ©deey_jah

𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 1 𝐎𝐅 : 𝐀 𝐑𝐎𝐘𝐀𝐋𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 Some love stories are written in destiny... and some are carved in blood. 𝐄𝐤𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐡 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐡 𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐞 - the ruthless business tycoon the world admires and the mafia king the underworld fears. Power follows him, enemies bow before him, and darkness walks beside him like a shadow. He never believed in love, because monsters like him were never meant to be loved. 𝐑𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐮𝐡𝐚𝐧 - a compassionate doctor with a heart full of kindness and a soul untouched by cruelty. She spends her life healing others, unaware that fate is slowly pulling her toward the most dangerous man alive. Two completely different worlds collide when Reet unknowingly becomes a target in a deadly game of power, revenge, and obsession. What starts as protection soon turns into possession. And somewhere between threats, secrets, and stolen moments... hearts begin to betray their owners. But loving Ekansh comes with a price. Because his world is built on violence, and once someone enters it, there is no escape. Will Reet be able to heal the darkness inside him... or will Ekansh destroy the only light he has ever known?

After a disastrous first season in London, Rose Wilde finds herself torn between two men who love her -- but who both hide secrets that could ruin her. ***** Rose Wilde has always considered herself plain, especially when compared to her beautiful older sister Charlotte, and has practically given up on the idea of being romanced. But when American hotelier Derek Montgomery comes to revolutionise her little, sleepy English village of Ascot, Rose starts to revisit the idea of falling in love. However, Derek brings with him many secrets and obligations, some that might prohibit him from pursuing Rose -- and push her into the arms of her friend, Michael Cornell, the Marquess of Juniper. Will fate allow Rose and Derek to marry for love? Or will she indeed become the reluctant marchioness? [[Word count: 70,000 - 80,000 words]] Cover designed by Ashley Bandy (The Reluctant Marchioness is the sequel to The Coveted Countess, but can also be read as a standalone)

တောင်ကြီးသား တည်တံ့ခိုင်မြဲ နဲ့ ရန်ကုန်သူ ကြည်နူးသဒ္ဓါငယ် တို့ရဲ့ အချစ်ဇာတ်လမ်းလေးပါ။ Playboy တည်တံ့ခိုင်မြဲ တစ်ယောက် innocent girl လေး ကြည်နူးသဒ္ဓါငယ် ကို ချစ်မိသွားတဲ့အခါမှာတော့ သူချစ်တဲ့မိန်းကလေးကို ပိုင်ဆိုင်ခွင့်ရအောင် ဘယ်လို ကြိုးစားယူမလဲ??? ပိုင်ဆိုင်ခွင့်ရသွားတဲ့အခါမှာရော တည်တံ့ခိုင်မြဲ တစ်ယောက် သူ့ သဲငယ်ကို ဘယ်လိုတွေ ဂရုစိုက်ကြင်နာပြီး အကဲပိုချစ်ပြမလဲ??? Start Date - 31.01.2024 *************** ေတာင္ႀကီးသား တည္တံ့ခိုင္ၿမဲ နဲ႔ ရန္ကုန္သူ ၾကည္ႏူးသဒၶါငယ္ တို႔ရဲ႕ အခ်စ္ဇာတ္လမ္းေလးပါ။ Playboy တည္တံ့ခိုင္ၿမဲ တစ္ေယာက္ innocent girl ေလး ၾကည္ႏူးသဒၶါငယ္ ကို ခ်စ္မိသြားတဲ့အခါမွာေတာ့ သူခ်စ္တဲ့မိန္းကေလးကို ပိုင္ဆိုင္ခြင့္ရေအာင္ ဘယ္လို ႀကိဳးစားယ

When the arrogant stranger Bess is forced to marry unexpectedly becomes a duke, she'll find herself at odds with her growing feelings as he hunts for a killer. ***** Sharp-tongued Elizabeth 'Bess' Jones is perfectly content living on her lonesome in a tiny village south of Derbyshire. She works as a nurse, owns a small home, and finds the label of 'spinster' an agreeable trade for her independence. But when her entire life is uprooted in an instant, she only has one person to blame: her new husband, Emmett Wilde, who was caught in a compromising situation with her. And now, despite his promise to fake a death certificate after their wedding--to free her of any duty to him or their marriage bed--he sends for her in the dead of night with startling news: his father has been murdered, and he is now the Duke of Ascot with a wife he can no longer deny... [[Word Count: 60,000-70,000 words]] [[Cover designed by Ren Tachibana]]

She had everything- A glittering skyline at her window, parents who adored her, a lover who swore the stars would bow to her smile. At twenty-eight, Aarika Singhania ruled her empire-a company she'd built from dust and ambition. She was everything which a girl dreams of. Her life was perfect. Too perfect. Until one night-screeching tires, shattered glass, and then-nothing. When she opened her eyes again... the world wasn't hers anymore. A cramped bedroom. Faded walls. Two small faces staring at her with tear-filled eyes- "Mommy?" Her reflection in the cracked mirror was a stranger-twenty-one, tired, beautiful in a way that carried pain. A ring on her finger, a man's shirt hanging on the door, and two toddlers calling her mother. The CEO of a billion-dollar company... now a young wife in a life she never lived. Who was the woman she replaced? Where did her own body go? And can she return to the world that once bowed to her name- or is she destined to rewrite her fate in this borrowed skin? Her heart says it's a second chance. Her mind whispers it's a trap.

Aarohi thought loneliness belonged to empty rooms. Then she got married. In a crowded house full of people, she slowly learns what it feels like to sleep beside someone who loves her physically... but never fully stands beside her emotionally. Vihaan is not cruel. Not hateful. Just a man raised to believe responsibility matters more than emotional presence. Between family expectations, unspoken hurt, silent crying, and a marriage where love exists but emotional courage doesn't, Aarohi slowly begins losing herself - until she starts writing the feelings she can no longer say aloud. Halfway Husband is a quiet, emotionally raw story about marriage, loneliness, emotional neglect, healing, and the heartbreaking ways women become silent after explaining themselves too many times.

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