Why do engaged couples break up?

[DanDraper]

I'm working on a story in which an engaged couple break up and get back together after a bad argument, but I can't think of an argument good enough to explain why they broke up in the first place.
Anybody have a good reason why an engaged couple break up?
And please, don't say one cheated, that's too easy.

 

[jaF0]

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[bettiezyx]

Parents. They will generally lose their shit if the future-in-law does anything demeaning to their child. They will also have issues w/ the future-in-law on choice of career & social interactions w/ his/her family members.

 

[Lost_Yonder]

money
domineering future mother in-law
guy made passing comment about fiancee's younger sister or checked out too long her bf's ample cleavage
she putting pressure on him to seek out a promotion that he isn't interested in (doesn't like the work, or prefers working the floor than working behind a desk)
one of their pets that they are allergic to
stress of wedding planning makes them argue over stupid things - leaving dirty dishes out, or putting them wrong into the dishwasher
different ideas about the wedding - size, venue, who to make best man
not talking about a previous lover that creates jealousy, particularly when they want to invite them to the wedding
refusing to share their password for their phone

 

[MiddleAgedMan]

Children, one wants to try to have one now, the other is not ready. Which one of them caves in and compromises when they get back together is optional.

Maybe they have a fight over some sibling that needs a place to crash for a few weeks (good incest-interlude right there...)

Religion, though I’d personally stay away from that, does not mix easily with erotica in my experience.

 

[ericrodman101]

I'm working on a story in which an engaged couple break up and get back together after a bad argument, but I can't think of an argument good enough to explain why they broke up in the first place.
Anybody have a good reason why an engaged couple break up?
And please, don't say one cheated, that's too easy.

How about cheated but with the same sex?

 

[sirhugs]

Parents. They will generally lose their shit if the future-in-law does anything demeaning to their child. They will also have issues w/ the future-in-law on choice of career & social interactions w/ his/her family members.

His Mom trying to control the wedding.

Her fucking the best man

Him getting a bj from a stripper at the bachelor party

Different decisions about whether to get frisky with friends in the hot tub

 

[jaF0]

He found the extent of her collection of high heels.




Or she found his.

 

[jaF0]

But seriously folks.

There used to be a show on called Bridezillas. I always expected the guys to call off the weddings after they found out the level of bitchiness they were getting into.

 

[MisterTom]

If they're getting back together, you can't have anything insurmountable. It could be that he's a nerd and still loves comic books and collecting action figures, and she's worried he'll never change. Maybe he goes to ComicCon instead of her cousin's wedding. So they argue and break up. But he gives up his nerdy ways because he realises he loves her and wants to spend the rest of his life with her.

 

[sirhugs]

He found the extent of her collection of high heels.




Or she found his.

and they wouldn't agree who got to walk all over the other wearing the heels.

 

[DanDraper]

His Mom trying to control the wedding.


Him getting a bj from a stripper at the bachelor party

I'm liking this one. It isn't fully cheating like I'm trying to avoid, but it's enough to cause a problem between them. I may have him confess to it after it happens because of guilty he felt.

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[Zeb_Carter]

As the wedding looms closer the future bride becomes a domineering bitch from hell. At first the groom laughs it off but as she gets worse the closer they are to the wedding, he suddenly realizes that this is her true personality coming froth from where she was hiding it the past 5 years they have been going out.

Oh, they never get back together because she's looking for a cuck and he isn't going to be one. Although, he does take her over his knee before he leaves and turns her ass into a glowing red. He then dumps her on the floor and walks out.

Later, the FIL has a talk with him and tells him how he handled her mother. Smiling he goes back to her and explains what will and won't happen in their marriage. She gets another spanking and they live happily ever after. But never get married.

Just like her parents.

 

[Carnevil9]

One family is rich. The other is not. The rich parents insist on a pre-nup. The other family is offended and the wedding is called off.

Lots of ways you could resolve it. For one, they never do get back together. Or they do, but the rich kid is cut off from the family's wealth. Or the non-wealthy family finds out that even with the pre-nup, it is a very generous offer. Or many other ideas, hopefully including lots of sex scenes.

Edit: on the "no cheating" rule, you could have a misunderstanding where one of the lovebirds thinks the other one cheated, due to some sort of misunderstanding, but they never really did. It's still enough to throw a monkey wrench into the wedding plans, and it's even more tragic than if the cheating had been real.

 

[Hypoxia]

One of the couple (any genders) belatedly discovers the (disguised) other is a tentacle critter, a were-critter, an ET alien, a proto-human, a hallucination, a robotic android, a death cultist, a Republican, anything repulsive like that.

 

[ericrodman101]

She finds out he's been pimping her sister which is a negative, but then she finds out how much he's been earning from the arrangement, which gets them back together. Gotta pay that house loan.

 

[Gamina]

Really not liking how the other deals with high stress situations

Discovering very different futur plans (work, kids and stuff)

 

[MadeleineSinha]

I'm working on a story in which an engaged couple break up and get back together after a bad argument, but I can't think of an argument good enough to explain why they broke up in the first place.
Anybody have a good reason why an engaged couple break up?
And please, don't say one cheated, that's too easy.

In reality the worst arguments are sometimes not about big issues but pointless things like why can’t he see the film he’s looking for on Netflix, it’s there. Look there. You’ve been past it twice you idiot.*
Little things like that can fester and explode later, it may be an interesting diversion to develop a truly pathetic disagreement into a deal breaker.

*If that seems an oddly specific reference, remember telling true stories in lit is against the rules so it must be made up.

 

[jaF0]

*If that seems an oddly specific reference, remember telling true stories in lit is against the rules so it must be made up.

http://forum.literotica.com/showpost.php?p=93815201&postcount=26

 

[MadeleineSinha]

http://forum.literotica.com/showpost.php?p=93815201&postcount=26

?

 

[jaF0]

Did you read it?

 

[MadeleineSinha]

Did you read it?

Yeah. I was making a joke.

 

[LupusDei]

Living arrangements.

The groom's not real money-rich, but his grandfather owns and lives on a farm with may or may not be functional today converted to be exurban estate with no real commercial scale agricultural activity, the former lands party sold or leased off long term to other farmers, or nearby developments, or forested, or just plain abandoned, or any combination thereof). The guy keeps that place as his only true home in the entire world ever (even if he actually mostly lived in the city flat with his parents while still in school) and feels (mostly seld-issued) obligation to take it all over from his grandfather. His extended family knows his intentions and now essentially expect just that from him.

That includes taking care of the old man who's in his nineties is still (mostly) self sufficient and independent, for now still -- and strictly expect to die in his own bed, no matter what. The place also serves as holiday and gathering place for all the extended family: groom's parents, siblings and their own families, cousins, uncles/aunts, etc, well over thirty people who may visit almost anytime, many (but not all) even have rooms pegged as (semi-)permanently theirs.


The Bride recognizes the value of and even do love the place -- but strictly as a holiday destination; she does not find it acceptable as permanent residence, even if she may yet struggle to put a finger on why really herself.

She too had been living with her family -- parents, siblings and more, in much too narrow living arrangements -- up until now and hate that, in silent long lasting conflict with some or all of them. Her actual prime objective in getting married right fucking now is to move out of there, asap and permanently. She is instinctive need for independent self build nest and have a kitchen she fully and unquestionably control as both a dream and hard requirement. She lacks self confidence to see how she can get that in this place, where she would have to compete for control with groom's mother and older sister, even if neither is present permanently.

The groom sees no utility, nor necessity of another property or even rented city flat, even if he could afford that -- and he can't, not easily at least, not without help from relatives asking for what would be awkward.

~

Ah, yes it does have/assume central/north European attitudes to extended family and family name defining properties that are held on for centuries no matter what.

And well, they probably wouldn't solve it. Two people madly in love can split up permanently over such, seemingly esoteric issues. Perhaps, he would sink in deep depression, never have sex with another woman again, and thirty years later still have some of her clothes in a closet on that farm. But she never find her way there again, the love probably long morphed into pity.

 

[LupusDei]

If they're getting back together, you can't have anything insurmountable. It could be that he's a nerd and still loves comic books and collecting action figures, and she's worried he'll never change. Maybe he goes to ComicCon instead of her cousin's wedding. So they argue and break up. But he gives up his nerdy ways because he realises he loves her and wants to spend the rest of his life with her.

That's actually insurmountable right there.

 

[sirhugs]

One of the couple (any genders) belatedly discovers the (disguised) other is a tentacle critter, a were-critter, an ET alien, a proto-human, a hallucination, a robotic android, a death cultist, a Republican, anything repulsive like that.

but always just looking for love...