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As-Salamu ‘Alaykum brother,
As I am not an Islamic Scholar, I can only advice you from a relationship perspective. However, AboutIslam’s scholar suggests not uncovering what Allah has already chosen to cover for you. If He Most High has covered your past sins, it is not right that you should bring it up to your future spouse. In Islam, we are told that once we repented, we are not to disclose our sins. Perhaps, that is why she did not tell you before marriage, but why she told you a week later, I do not know. Maybe she got some misguided information from someone who said she has to tell you.
Nonetheless, you are married, and she disclosed something very painful to you – for both of you I am sure. She must have trusted you enough to tell you. Why would you want to divorce her; for the act of uncovering her sin to you, or because she was in a “relationship” before you? This “relationship” by the way sounds like one that abusive towards her: “The guy forced her not to get married and threatened her multiple times,”…that doesn’t sound like fun.
At any rate, dear brother, I do not mean to sound mean, but have you ever sinned? We all do. No one is perfect. If she repented (which I am sure she did), then it is between her and Allah. She married you, not him. She is making a life with you, not him. It sounds brother that she was even perhaps afraid of him.
I would suggest dear brother that you accept and love your wife, grow with her in happiness and love, and let Allah be the judge. You married her present and future, not her past. And I am quite sure you will begin to understand that none of us are perfect – there is no such thing. Seeking perfection in a wife, or child or spouse is unrealistic.
Focus on her good qualities and the reasons you chose her and she chose you, and let the past lie dead. There is no sense in destroying lives and hurting others by divorce when she has done nothing wrong to you. I can understand your shock dear brother, but I ask you to try to get past it, pray to Allah for strength to get through this, and enjoy a very blessed and happy marriage.
You are in our prayers dear brother. Please let us know how you are doing.
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