Relationships even at the best of times can be extremely difficult.

When people are together or married for any amount of time, it's a time for celebration with ceremonies proclaiming a renewal of vows only seeming to get more and more popular. Couples and commitment should be celebrated especially when cheating seems like the only option for people who are unhappy. One happy couple were celebrating their fourth year of marriage but the wife's unveiling of her husband's present has caused serious shockwaves in his mind about their lives together. In a bizarre and perhaps hilarious story, Reddit user mywifeisapsycho describes his married life with his wife but her actions on their anniversary has left him in serious doubt about their marriage and reading from his account, we can maybe see why. The man reveals he is 28 and his wife is 32, giving a bit of background to their relationship.

"My wife works as a server at a popular chain restaurant and I work as a lower level manager at a small faith based organization. We've talked about our shared appreciation of tattoos before, but my wife only has a small turtle on her ankle she got in college, and I don't have any yet because I didn't have the money for the sleeve I want until I took this job and now I can't have anything visible. Anyways, we both like them but my wife has only expressed wanting a tattoo of a dragon, lilies, an octopus, or other trendy designs. It's her body and I always encourage her to do what she wants and tell her I'd support her no matter what, because I thought I would. Now I wonder if I've led her on.

He describes his plans for a happy anniversary before he got the shock of his life.

"Our anniversary is Friday and I made low key plans for us to go out to dinner at her favorite restaurant, and bought her a bottle of her favorite cognac, Courvoisier. We usually celebrate by doing something romantic, and last year her gift to me was cooking lessons that we did together. Tonight, she told me she had to stay late at work to cover someone's shift, so I didn't question it, and then she came home a few hours later (but earlier than a full shift, which was suspicious) but she was beaming. Apparently, she didn't even go to her own shift today because she spent her afternoon getting a giant fucking portrait of my face on her upper thigh. It is well done but it still looks like a leather version of me covered in soot because that's how tattoos are, and it looks tacky as fuck, not to mention creepy! She gave me no warning but she looked so happy and told me she planned it months in advance so she could "surprise" me and worked with the artist to do it all in one session, though she says it's still not finished.

The 28-year-old husband couldn't believe his ears nor eyes upon seeing his wife's anniversary 'gift'.

"Why?? I am honestly so creeped out. I love her to death but I can't imagine what would compel a person to do this. I smiled and feigned liking it (because it's permanently etched on her body so what difference does it make now if I tell her I hate it? She can't get it removed, it's the diameter of a cantaloupe). I don't know what to do and I'm feeling 50 things at once.

He outlines the future consequences of people seeing the tattoo that he knew nothing about.

"What happens when somebody sees it? It's so embarrassing, and it's going to look like I branded my mark on her or something. Her parents are probably going to hate me, especially since I can't and won't reciprocate by getting a tattoo of her. What will our children think? We don't have any yet but we've been trying for a year and we both want them. Now I can't stop thinking about how humiliating it will be to go to an OBGYN appointment with her that we were planning for our conception issues and having a giant picture of my face on her leg. There are so many things that keep popping up. And why her leg?? How will I ever have sex with my wife again when I have to stare at my own face to do so?

He asked Reddit for advice on his sticky situation, afraid that his wife was not the woman he married.

"What do I do? How do I even bring this up? Does our marriage have some serious problems I didn't know about until today? We usually communicate so well and we're always on the same page."

Readers offered their condolences, saying it could be worse. SHEESH! Rather him than us...