It’s
easy to agree on some no-brainer reasons for divorce
– abuse, alcoholism and infidelity are all common reasons to end a
marriage. But what about cleaning too much, disliking a beloved film or kissing
a horse?
People
in the US certainly have some wild divorce stories, but we by no means have a
monopoly on it; turns out people around the world get divorced for all sorts of
crazy reasons:
A face not even a husband could love
Although
India has a low divorce rate overall, some individual divorce cases are
doozies, reports the BBC. One man sought divorce because of his wife’s terrible
acne. Another man wanted a divorce because of his wife’s “excessive and
insatiable appetite for sex.” Both were granted divorces.
The mother of all honeymoons
Ah,
the honeymoon: uninterrupted alone time for just you, your husband – and your
mother-in-law. In Italy, a new husband secretly arranged to bring his mother along on his Paris honeymoon with his bride.
She was not happy about it and filed for divorce just a month after the
nuptials.
Another
divorce Italian style made headlines a few years ago when a 99-year-old man divorced his 96-year-old-wife of 77 years over
an affair she had in the 1940s.
Can’t “Let It Go”
A
woman in Japan couldn’t imagine staying married to a man who didn’t
adore the Disney blockbuster “Frozen” and sued for divorce, according to the NY Daily News and other sources.
A broken marriage and a broken member
Many
men are insecure about size, but one man in Russia did something about
it by getting penile enhancement surgery. Unfortunately for him, the extension
allegedly broke during sex, and his wife soon after filed for divorce.
Caught sneaking a peek
Social media and marriage don’t mix. Spouses can hook up with
old flames on Facebook, arrange trysts on Twitter or even post pictures of
themselves kissing a horse, which is what one woman from Saudi Arabia
did. Her jealous husband divorced her for it. Also in Saudi Arabia, a man
divorced his new wife after seeing her face for the first time. Ouch.
Tear down this wall! (because it’s dirty)
One
woman’s fantasy is another woman’s nightmare. A wife in Germany divorced
her husband because he cleaned too much. She put up with his obsessive cleaning for
15 years but decided to draw the line after he knocked down and then rebuilt a
wall because it was dirty.
A little bird told me
A
woman in China began to suspect her husband of cheating after hearing
her mynah bird repeat phrases like “divorce” and “be patient.” She
sued for divorce and hoped to bring the bird to court to testify.
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