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Divorce Lawyers Share Anonymous Stories Of The Weirdest Reasons Why Their Clients Broke Up (30 Pics)
Nailing the marriage game is hard, no doubt about it. About 9% of 30-year-olds have already ended one marriage, reports Business Insider. The national divorce rate in 2018 was 2.9 per 1,000 of the US population, which may not look so bad until you see that the marriage rate was 6.5 per 1,000. To put it simply, there’s a not-so-tiny chance it won’t work out for a large part of newlyweds.
And people on Reddit decided to find out what it is that pushes people over the brink in marriage. Two threads initiated by redditors u/dankph and u/KlyonneSpencer popped up asking divorce lawyers about the most ridiculous and outrageous reasons that their clients filed for divorce. And oh boy, you can't tell us you saw this coming. From literally crappy reasons to simply being too good-looking, these excuses will make you wonder what the heck these love birds were thinking.
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#1
I had two couples come to me. They had been friends for nigh on 15 years. Husband A decided he liked Wife B more than Wife A. Wife A decided she likes Husband B more than Husband A. The reverse was also true, and Husband B preferred Wife A, Wife B preferred Husband A. The couples had near identical assets in terms of value. They came to me all together, and I drafted two sets of paperwork. Two default judgment hearings were set on the same day. The judge signed all the papers the same day. A week after that, they all went to a JP and remarried. The husbands swapped houses and they all went about their lives exactly as they had the week before, but each slightly happier.
Ani Archeron 5 years ago
you could tell me this was the plot to a bad holiday rom-com and i'd believe you
Sergio Bicerra Descalzi 5 years ago
My friend told me something similar happened to his cousin, but weren't married at the same time, and after the hole thing reminded friends and hang out together. They were all in their 40's so makes some sense the mature actitude.
Sandy Britton 5 years ago
I once knew two couples like this also They swapped and lived happily ever after.
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#2
My cousin divorced his wife because, after his wife's father murdered two people in a robbery-gone-wrong, she defended him and harassed the victim's family over Facebook
Alex Bailey 5 years ago
Absolutely! Divorcing someone like that is extremely reasonable.
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#3
My client was the outrageous one, so my heart went out to his poor wife. He had OCD which manifested primarily financially, so he made their lives a penny-pinching hell. Examples: he was obsessed with avoiding unnecessary driving (wear and tear on the car, gas expenses), so he cut the whole family’s hair at home and never let them eat at a restaurant or go to the movies. Weirdest of all: he kept one toilet paper roll on him at all times and you had to get one square from him before you could go to the bathroom. He never gave more than one square. Wife finally got fed up and left him when 1) he gave her bangs during an in-home haircut and 2) their daughter was so traumatized by the toilet paper thing they couldn’t potty train her.
Untitled_Goose_Man 5 years ago
It says he has OCD, which is a serious disorder when it is real. So yes, he needs professional help.
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Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
That’s not just OCD. He was an abusive tyrant. Glad she left and is salvaging the remainder of her child(ren)’s childhood(s).
Dynein 5 years ago
People keep forgetting that people can be mentally ill AND be a******s on top of it!
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Rabbit Carrot 5 years ago
Financial abuse is awful. I hate the way this is written as if the man is just a bit ocd. No he’s an abusive a-hole.
Bored Panda contacted Evan D. Schein, a partner and head litigator at Berkman Bottger Newman & Schein LLP law firm based in Manhattan, New York to find out more about why people do get divorced. Evan has litigated matrimonial matters in the Supreme and Family Courts of Manhattan, Kings, Queens, Nassau, and more.
Evan told us that throughout his career as a family law attorney, he has seen many different reasons people decide to end their marriage. “I have an inside look into all the reasons people get divorced—affairs, financial infidelity, lack of communication, growing apart, lack of connection; to name a few.”
However, one particular reason still haunts him. “Out of all the reasons I have heard, a grudge years later over the wedding table seating chart still stands out for me,” he said.
#4
I do my student practice at my family's law firm. Young woman filed for a divorce because her husband drank ONE beer during weekdays after a day of work. The guy wasn't violent, doing drugs, or anything like that. He was just a normal, polite guy who liked to have a cold one after 10 hr shift. They are very good couple and argue so rarely that this woman's friends told her to write down everything he did to upset her and re-read it every day, so she had reasons to be angry about. My mom (lawyer) set the woman straight, told her he' just doing what all guys do and to find herself new friends instead of ones ready to sabotage their marriage.
Rex the Rat 5 years ago
It's a good thing your mom wasn't in it just for the money and was able to help people
Kissarrah 4 years ago
If she wanted to divorce him over this, I don't see how it's helping anyone for her to stay. What else will be the breaking point for her?
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deanna woods 5 years ago
That's some good advice from your mom. The friends probably just wanted her to be single again.
Lisa Shelton 5 years ago
I don't agree with the whole 'he's just doing what all guys do' thing, that's stupid. But if him drinking one beer a day without having any other issues was enough for her to want a divorce then she was just looking for a reason and needs to own up to it.
kathryn stretton 5 years ago
Hope she listened to the advice. She would so regret it after if she didn't.
Chris DiFonso 5 years ago
Worse case scenario: the woman divorces the nice husband, and keeps the shi**y friends
Leodavinci 5 years ago
A friend's mother-in-law recently died. She had been so involved in their married life, his wife was told to cut the apron strings by a marriage counselor. That was back in the early 80s. The mother-in-law had been living with them for about the last 30 years.
Kelly Hartle 5 years ago
My aunt is an extremely vindictive person. Back in the 60’s her husband had a co-worker who was retiring, so her husband stopped by a bar to have a drink with him. When he got home 15 minutes late, his suitcase was on the front porch waiting on him.
#5
Divorced guy here. I divorced my ex-wife because she decided to be a ‘Super Christian’ that spent hours each day lying on the floor speaking in tongues. Also she would have random conversations with former deceased relatives while doing mundane daily activities. The final straw was when I came home from work and my 2 yr old daughter was in the fireplace eating ashes two feet away from her while she laid on the ground chanting and speaking in her made up language.
Just Carmen 5 years ago
I think more than a jar of that water would be needed.
Load More Replies... deanna woods 5 years ago
It's people like this ex wife that make Christians look bad. She wasn't a Christian, she was a neglectful psycho.
Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
Yes! Exactly! It’s the a******s like this that claim Christianity that people hear about and then think badly of Christians!
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KT Trondsen 5 years ago
Did you ever consider getting her mental help? Sounds like she was very distutbed
Mrs. Smith 5 years ago
This sounds like a psychotic break and severe delusional behavior. This man should have sought help for his wife.
pusheen buttercup 5 years ago
She sounds less religious and more like she could use some help. Certain illnesses don't manifest for a while and some do happen especially after pregnancy
#6
He got drunk at the wedding, she did not like it, and decided to divorce him right after the Honeymoon (which she went to without him). Moreover, this was all an elaborate scheme of divorce-robbery, because the guy was loaded, and so was his entire family.... They were loaded because they were a family of EXCELLENT lawyers, and he was a third generation lawyer, with all the smarts and experience of his predecessors combined. Lets just say it did not go well for her.
Viviane 5 years ago
My dad got drunk right after the wedding. Maybe it had something to do with my mother having to spend the night washing dishes after making supper for her self-centred family and various relatives. Yup, mum and dad stayed together, but they moved to another country far, far away from her folks.
Kelly Hartle 5 years ago
This sounds like my first husband. My parents are well off, and I’m an only child, but we’ve always considered it their money, not mine. Soon after I got married, my husband started talking about the things we could do after my parents die. I told him I would rather have them than their money any day. And yes, I traded up—my husband of the last 21 years has said over and over that he already got everything he wants from my parents—me.
Viviane 5 years ago
I know someone whose spouse talked one time too many about their inheritance. They finally said, "You're not getting anything -- your father isn't leaving you anything." "What about your folks? "I don't know... don't rely on them, either." They're a happy couple, and I guess one is even happier now, and the other a wee bit less so.
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Trash Panda 5 years ago
Wouldn't that be an annulment? They just got married and haven't had the time to possess marital assets. I'm sorry but this sounds like b******t.
Elaine Mattingly 5 years ago
With that much education I would have thought he would know not to get drunk on their wedding day. Rude, crude and ignorant,
These days, as we’re living in a time of crisis and isolation, everyone is experiencing tremendous stress. “There is so much unknown and uncertainty” that Evan is convinced that “this reality and these feelings will have a profound effect on marriages and relationships.”
The head litigator said, “I fully expect there will be a large increase in divorce filings.” And for those individuals who were already contemplating the idea of divorce and on the fence, “the current situation and this new way of life may very well push them in the divorce direction,” Evan explained.
#7
I knew a couple who got divorced after the wife walked in on her husband who was rubbing poop from their baby's diaper all over his body...
#8
Paralegal. A couple got divorced over a cat. Wife called cat Snowball because of white fur and only wanted the cat to eat wet food or chicken breast. Husband called cat Lily again because of white fur and believed it should only eat dry food. These two argued for a year over custody of the cat but did not give a s**t about their human kids aged 15 months, 4 years, and 6 years old.
Dog Lover 5 years ago
Because sometimes that’s all they know how to, is create kids.
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Aleksandra 5 years ago
Cats should only eat good wet food tho so wife's idea of cat's diet was healthier for the cat
#9
One of my coworkers has been married seven times. One time she divorced a guy because he was 'too good-looking' and she couldn't trust him. Another time she divorced a man because he came home with the wrong brand of hotdogs that she told him to buy. I wish I was making this up
Lana Jig-maker 5 years ago
Who keeps marrying this chick? There should be a mandatory five year probation period between marriages, if a person gets married/divorced more than 3x. Like house arrest. No dating, no shacking up, no marrying. She wanted to get married a 4th time? Have to wait 5yrs first.
Sergio Bicerra Descalzi 5 years ago
That may save a lot of time to some people, before marrying a crazy one.
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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Did she walk away with a good portion of his money every time? Because that could be her reason to find ANY reason for divorce.
Sergio Bicerra Descalzi 5 years ago
Once read on Reddit a woman did this cause she liked to have weddings, be the center of attention, and even told the venue guys in her last wedding that she was totally going there again in her next one.
Kimberley Thomas 5 years ago
It sounds as if she should be a Daily Wedding Planner with part of her pay being "wed" to someone in the audience just for laughs.
Load More Replies... April Simnel 5 years ago
These sound to me like she has serious underlying commitment issues. She was looking for reasons to divorce these men.
Rabbit Carrot 5 years ago
Sounds like all of her husbands have had lucky escapes from this high maintenance madam.
kathryn stretton 5 years ago
She'll be searching for ever. Hope she doesn't get payouts every time. Also, really hope she has no chidren yet.
Jane Alexander 5 years ago
Yes and she'd get it if someone has the right kind of boots.
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I knew someone who broke off an engagement because her fiancé kept pulling pranks on her, like buying fake lottery tickets and stuff. In her eyes, he was humiliating her in front of friends and family. It was almost like he was running social experiments on her to see how she'd react
Luisa Vasconcelos 5 years ago
Nowadays pranks are becoming very mean. Like cut the hair of the wife and this kind of things.
logical fallacy 5 years ago
I never understood the spirit of pranks, even the non-cruel ones. Like, why is it funny that the teacher wrote on the board with crayons that look like chalk that a student replaced?
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Rosemari Ferreira Gebbran 5 years ago
One of the first things I told my boyfriend was that I hate pranks and I don't like to handle surprises and "guess what" kind of stuff, and he.... Respect my feelings and never did anything to provoque me in this way. That's why we are married (7 years in September). Ah, I said that in the begging because he had the fame to do this kinda of dumb stuff.
Rabbit Carrot 5 years ago
She was right to get rid of him. Pranks aren’t funny, especially not when they humiliate.
Samantha Hurrell 5 years ago
You can't do stuff like that, unless you know the other party is fine with it. Which she clearly wasn't, so he was such an a*s.
Amanda DuPont 5 years ago
Shows how little he thinks of her if he finds enjoyment in her pain/embarrassment
#11
"I didn't like her anymore" - 2 days after being married.
Kathy Baylis 5 years ago (edited)
You never know. He could be a finicky a*****e. But she also could’ve been on her best behavior before the wedding, and waited until it was legal and everything was community property (unless there was a pre-nup) to show her real self—-or her actual motives for marrying him, if you remember the gold digger from a previous posting who dumped her wealthy hubby before she left on their honeymoon. By herself.
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ChickyChicky 5 years ago
I think this happened to an acquaintance of mine. They went on their honeymoon, lots of pictures of the cool stuff they saw. Then totally quiet. A few months later I found out that right after the honeymoon he told her didn't really like her. Should have figured that out sooner, bucko.
CharliAnn Olney 5 years ago
probably didn't like her before. To cowed not to go through with Bridezilla's wedding.
#12
My douche cousin told his wife she had three chances to give him a son. Daughter was born first. Strike one. Son was born second. Then they find out the boy cant eat gluten. So my cousin divorced her and has made zero effort to see his kids.
nanashi 5 years ago
did he know that the gender of the fetus depends on which sex chromosome the sperm was carrying???
Alex Bailey 5 years ago
Exactly. HIS 'fault' if they don't get a boy. Though why having a boy matters so much to some people is always going to puzzle me.
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Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
That douche never deserved to be a dad. Also a guy tells me I have three strikes/chances? I tell him he's out. F**k ever being downtrodden again I've had my share of dysfunction
Lana Jig-maker 5 years ago
This pisses me off, and breaks my heart to no end. Daughters are worthless to so many people it seems. That boy (he doesn't deserve to be called a man) is horrible. It would be funny if his son grows up healthy and strong, Then finds his dad, and slaps him in the face with a 50lb bag of wheat flour. "Whose got a gluten intolerance NOW, dad!"
Martha Meyer 5 years ago
I think those kids, especially the son, are much better off without a father like that.
Kelly Hartle 5 years ago
My cousin’s wife went to college to become a teacher. He found out she might make more than he did, so he kicked her out, along with their 2 kids, even though she was also going through breast cancer. Needless to say, I claim her, not him.
Kathy Baylis 5 years ago (edited)
Henry VIII reincarnated. Too stupid to know that it’s the sperm that decides gender, so it’s actually his body’s “fault” the first child was a girl (though having a child isn’t a matter of fault—-it’s a gift in the eyes of those of us who only had miscarriages). I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find the gluten problem came from his side too.
Rose the Cook 5 years ago
So the son wasn't "perfect". Reminds me of a co-worker whose daughter was born with a congenital defect and her husband divorced her on his mother's orders for producing an 'imperfect child".
#13
Friend of mine divorced his then wife because she would only speak French when her family would come over. She was Spanish, as was her family...
To add, her family spoke English, French and Spanish, he could only speak Spanish and English, she got bored of being married to him, her family basically talked s**t about him whilst he was there, was only when he recorded a conversation whilst they where there and got it translated he found out what was going on.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
I would have been suspicious from the beginning when she started talking french, obviously hiding things or talking s**t (as you found out).
Cassie 5 years ago
I'm sure he suspected. Otherwise, he wouldn't have felt the need to record the conversations and have them translated.
Load More Replies... Jane Alexander 5 years ago
"You don't marry the man (or woman) you marry the whole family" I used to hate it when mom would say that, but damn! it's true!
Jacinta Maurice 5 years ago
Yup, had the same thing happen to me, my first husband only spoke Spanish when his friends and family were around, I learned enough over the years to understand what they were saying and yes they spoke about me all the time and not in a good way, I divorced him and never looked back
Steve Cruz 5 years ago
I learned Spanish in Jr. High and French in high school. They are both Latin languages and there isn't a vast amount of difference. He must have had some idea what was being said.
Damián Dell'Amico 5 years ago
Hi Steve. I'm Spanish mother tongue. Been living in lovely France for the past 23 years. These are my 2c: (1) *Written* Spanish and French have a lot of words that look almost the same, or at least "cousins" enough. (2) *Spoken* Spanish and French definitely sound very different, only a few words sound close enough. But, yeah, voice tones alone, even in Mandarin, can give you a hint on what/whom other ppl are talking about. It's absolutely rude to speak in a foreing language so that a family member or friend will be systematically left out.
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Mark Kelly 4 years ago
Rude to speak a foreign language in front of someone who doesn't know it when you know their language.
#14
My client divorced her husband because he insisted on bringing his mother on their honeymoon. The reason? Because his mother was STILL breastfeeding him. Yes, the husband, a grown man, was still breastfeeding
Balaska 5 years ago
I would have thought you would notice at some point before the wedding
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Daria B 5 years ago
That's why you should always try living together before you make big decisions....
Load More Replies... kathryn stretton 5 years ago
I have heard this before. It is true. You can find it if you care to google it enough.
Panda with Heart 5 years ago
All the crazy things that happen in this world ..this could be true...yuck
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago (edited)
Wtf, that is seriously twisted, IF it is indeed true. Why would you marry him in the first place if he was still attached to his mothers tit?
#15
Colleague handled a case where money was not an issue but the kids were. Neither parent wanted them
('-')/ neeta ('-')/ 5 years ago
What the hell. That's so frikking messed up. Hope the kids are in the hands of REAL parents now.
Anna Repp 5 years ago
We can't know. It may be just s****y parents. Or may be teenagers having unprotected sex and forced by their parents to marry and have the kid(s). In that scenario neither parent wanted children in the first place and not everyone can learn to love unwanted children after they are born :( Let's hope those kids found a real loving family.
Load More Replies... Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Not so sure. Anecdote: A husband declares that he is in love and wants a divorce. All he wants is the car and half of the money and tells her that she can keep the house and the kids. She refuses and grants him the divorce on condition that she takes the car and he all the rest. Six months forward and he begs her to please take the house and the kids too because this is not what he had been planning for.
kathryn stretton 5 years ago
Devastating. Bastard parents. This one will stay with me. So sorry for those children.
Lana Jig-maker 5 years ago
Stay married. You get no divorce. You don't keep the kids, and both have to pay child support to the tune of $50,000, each parent. So the children go to an actual loving home, and since money is no problem, 100,000 a monthly payment. Boom, justice
#16
I worked as a paralegal for a divorce lawyer. Case analysis was one of my main responsibilities. I s**t you not. A recently married couple (of 2 years) broke it off because the husband would not stop feeding the dog. The dog got outrageously fat. Apparently she saw connection between the dog and future children.
Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
Hope she got custody of the poor poochie, and they’re both healthy once more.
kathryn stretton 5 years ago
She was probably right. But, probably not much love there if it couldn't be sorted by taliking.
Dan Steely 5 years ago
That does not seem unreasonable to me at all. People marry because of physical attraction or intellectual attraction but often have no discussion of parenting ideology and end up being terribly incompatible as parents, the most important job of their lives. One can debate parenting styles all they want but when two parents don’t agree at all, it will be disastrous for the children.
#17
One of our consults came in because his wife had been proposed to by one of those online scam people posing as the Prince of Turkey or something. She fell for it and was going to give him $45,000 and move to Turkey to marry him
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
He was lucky to find out before she had sent the scammer everything!
Sergio Bicerra Descalzi 5 years ago
Maybe he was a rapper. Never heard of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?
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Rabia Sare A. 5 years ago
a quick fact: there is no prince in Turkey. it is democratic republic that governs by president.
Max L. 5 years ago
How sad. We had a case here days ago, an old lady was scammed by 30k, her family was asking her where they ended, all she could do to escape the truth was to buy a knife and stab herself lightly trying to tell she was stabbed by someone else. The knife package was found half the way from the store.
Valerie Page 5 years ago
He said "Prince of Turkey OR SOMETHING" The point is that he was a scammer and she was an idiot
Barbara Vandewalle 5 years ago
She is already married so how was she going marry #2, while still with #1?
#18
Not a divorce lawyer, but got out of my first marriage becuase shortly after we got married he decided he didn't like the way I talked, and asked me not to talk when we were out in company unless I "could talk straight."
Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
That was only the thin edge of the wedge. It would’ve escalated and become increasingly abusive had she stayed. Glad she’s out of it.
Martha Meyer 5 years ago
I think some people marry much too quickly, before they even really know the other person.
Dilly Millandry 5 years ago
I completely agree though I suspect that this was all about emotional control and that the guy would be like that with anyone he marries. My parents were together years before they married and my mother was warned by my father's mother that he sulked. She didn't believe her as she had seen no sign of it but, oh boy, did that man sulk. Some people are just good manipulators and will hide the bad parts of their characters until the other person is trapped.
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Celtic Pirate Queen 5 years ago
Married a guy who adored me. Until the ring went on (I am a very strong, independent person - exactly who he claimed to be madly in love with). Suddenly, I laughed too loud and was too much "one of the guys". He didn't like me hugging men outside the family (my best friend of 20 years was a guy, so obviously I'm sleeping with him). I was making over $50k a year in a management position, he made $17k as a commercial painter, but he wanted me to quit my job, stay home and have babies (my kids were 4 and 13 and babies WERE NOT in my plans, he just assumed I would want to breed with him) not to mention the fact his paychecks would cover MY house payment and not much else. Yeah, he didn't even last until our first anniversary.
Nicole Antoku 5 years ago
This reminds me of my ex-husband. I’m Swedish, he’s Japanese and we were married and lived in Japan. He used to complain that I sounded like a boy whenever I spoke Japanese (I supposedly use more male expressions than female - the majority of my Japanese friends are male so it’s no wonder I pick up on their expressions since that is what I hear the most), and he thought that was embarrassing.
katboxjanitor 5 years ago
What does "Talk straight" mean, exactly? And how could he have missed it before marriage? What a dipshi*!
#19
I knew someone who got divorced the same day they got married. The groom was dancing with his sister at the reception, and the bride asked to cut in. His sister tried to punch her in the face but missed and punched the bride’s sister. All hell broke loose. The night ended with the bride asking the groom to choose between her or his sisters. He chose his sisters
panda_legerdemain 5 years ago
My husband has 4 mean ones. M very sure if i ask him to choose, he would also choose the sisters.
Load More Replies... Steve Cruz 5 years ago
His folks were probably wondering why he married outside of the family...
Jo Ellen Washburn 5 years ago
How could this be a surprise at the reception? Are people dating like two weeks and then marrying?
Lisa Shelton 5 years ago
What in the Jerry Springer kind of s**t show were these two families?
Kimberley Thomas 5 years ago
I can't tell which is worse. Having an overbearing mother or overbearing and willing to punch sisters. I guess whichever one is a higher quantity is a reason to be cautious.
#20
Paralegal here. Still remember an early case i worked on, man divorced his wife for her Bingo Addiction. 10 to 12 times per week she went to bingo. She was 82 he was 86. But the all time greatest. two 20 somethings, they were irreconcilable because he kept smoking her weed stash when she wasnt home.
#21
Easy. She spent $42,000 on psychic hotlines. Notable, she then wouldn’t accept any of our offers, and I continuously asked her lawyer to provide counter-offers...shouldn’t her psychic have told her how the case would turn out?!? Lol.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Totally believable. Since when are people who go to psychics equipped with any common sense?
Viviane 5 years ago
Spending thousands on psychics indicates an ongoing problem, as would calling a sex line or gambling.
Load More Replies... kathryn stretton 5 years ago
I have an ex mate does psychic and tarot online for money. She is a practising serious Christian. Takes wads of cash telling poorly educated people anything they want to hear. To hear her speak to me about the goodness of ger heart, then slag off peoples tragedies and their problems eventually did my gead in. So, this one. She was manipulated. She is probably being manipulated still. Awful.
Lynn Morello 5 years ago
As a Psychic, i have counseled people who have been scammed by Charlatans, my first was a lady who had already handed over $3,000.00 and the woman was asking for all her silver and gold Jewellery and other things of Value that would take the 'Evil Eye' off her. I put together a little Spell and charged her $2.00 for a pair of compact mirrors, and showed her how to take back control. 2 weeks later she was phoning me offering me $5,000.00. Needless to say I declined telling her that if I or any other Psychic took her money, the sell would be undone and everything would go back tot he trouble she had before. It is not that people Don't have any common sense, it is that some people are highly religious and are terrified of ANY Satanic work. Including Voodoo and Evil Eye. this Charlatan, simply chose to take advantage of her naivety
Viviane 5 years ago
It sounds like an addiction, so it's not going to go away on its own.
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Connie Hirsch 5 years ago
Should have found out what psychic she was going to and put a little pressure on her. (Most psychic reader shops do money laundering.) Just the threat might have disposed the psychic to tell her to settle.
Steve Cruz 5 years ago
Man visits a psychic, who greets him and asks, "What brings you here today?" He answers, "You tell me!"
David Lippman 5 years ago
And not one of the 12,000 psychics on HER PAYROLL ever said, "Hey, boss, tomorrow night, your mansion in Rio will get burglarized and the guys will make off with all of your Grammy Awards."
Load More Replies... Elaine Mattingly 5 years ago
The psychic knew exactly how it would tun out. Note to self : ( psychic) When divorce final take everything from settlement tell dummy she must never see me again or bad things will happen. he he he he
Stannous Flouride 5 years ago
From George Carlin or Stephen Wright (I forget which, too lazy to look it up) on how to pick a psychic: You make a list of every one in town and go around to visit at 3 o'clock in the morning. When you meet one who's been waiting up for you, that's the one you pick.
#22
My dad was a divorce lawyer. He had a client who wanted to divorce her husband for 2 reasons: 1. He did not have enough hair on his chest. 2. He did not drive fast enough. Keep in mind this was in the 70's when chest hair was a bit more important.
nanashi 5 years ago (edited)
I'm honestly glad I wasn't alive in the 70's, it sounds like a very weird era for many reasons lol
Ray Martin 5 years ago
I was alive in the '70s and it was no more weird than today, but it was certainly differently weird ;-)
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CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago
Ah, the '70s, when everyone was apparently color blind and gelatin came in meat flavor.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
Do people not really know these things BEFORE they marry the person?
Vinniegret 5 years ago
I was in my 20s in the 70s and I never heard anything about the desirability of chest hair. Honestly.
Hannah M 5 years ago
I am terrified of chest hair. I know this is so shallow but I don't think I could ever marry a guy with chest hair - it's so gross
Carrie de Luka 5 years ago (edited)
If it is an actual phobia you could get help for that. What if you meet the most fantastic, wonderful person but they have a hairy chest... it would be a terrible shame to let something like that get in the way. A lot of men are hairy. Quite frankly so are a lot of women if left to nature.
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#23
She was kidnapped in Mexico and he refused to pay ransom. Eventually her family managed to pay and she was left on the side of the road. It is not outrageous as in petty but outrageous as how absurd that is.
Jon S. 5 years ago
If we all agreed to never pay a ransom, kidnap for ransom would end overnight. It is why it is illegal to pay in many countries. And why many authorities advise you don't pay. Although, I realise the difficulty of putting that into practice when it is your own loved one on the line.
Stannous Flouride 5 years ago
That's when you need to hire Liam Neeson. (He has a particular set of skills, I hear)
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Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
If he at least had declared he would pay anything to get her back, this would’ve turned out differently. The fact he refused from the get-go is very telling.
kathryn stretton 5 years ago
Ye, when you realise how much your other half really cares. Not always good. At least she found out. Good luck to her and the rest of her life.
Mark Kelly 4 years ago
Well, I kind of see his side. If he pays then people will kidnap her again and maybe his family.
Trash Panda 5 years ago
Usually the cartels in Mexico go ahead and kill their hostage anyway. She was very fortunate for her turn out.
Jane Alexander 5 years ago
Just don't accumulate that kind of wealth and you needn't worry. 'Po folks' never get kidnapped for ransom.
Jon S. 5 years ago
Poor folk get kidnapped all the time. The kidnappers will tell your relatives to take out a loan or sell their car.
Load More Replies... #24
Not a lawyer, but did spend six months costing Legal Aid cases for solicitors in the early 90s. This included many divorces. The most notable one was a woman divorcing her husband because he discovered he could talk to the dead on their honeymoon and then later spent all their money on spiritualist groups. That wasn't what made it notable. During the divorce, the woman left the house. At some point her husband approached her and claimed that as he was letting the house fall into ruin, it would be better for both of them if he sold the house and split the proceeds with her. She agreed to this without consulting her solicitor. A few weeks later the husband gave her £5. She asked what it was for. It was her share of the house. He'd sold it to his sister for £10 and kept living there. When she went to complain to her solicitors, she found they'd done the conveyancing for him. He'd deliberately used his wife's divorce solicitors and nobody at the firm had realised.
David Lippman 5 years ago
I can talk to the dead, too, but they neither listen nor answer back.
Steve Cruz 5 years ago
A woman in Newport Beach found out her husband ran off with his business partner. The man left a note for her to "Sell the car and send him half." She listed his Lotus for $300.00 and it was bought by a college kid. When he tried to sue her, she produced his note and the court upheld the sale.
Stephen Joslyn 5 years ago
That's a conflict of interest, and I believe a laywer could be disbarred for that if the original client pushed it.
#25
Wasn't the reason but did happen during the course of the divorce. Neither side would follow the court orders. When they had to go back to court they were fighting over a pistol and the man's grandmother's bowls. I assumed for weeks that these bowls were some sort of heirloom or expensive china. When they finally brought the bowls in to swap they were f**king tupperware.
Shelley Russell 5 years ago
Hey...if my husband and I ever divorced and I tried to take the Tupperware, there would seriously be some issues. Tupperware was the source of our first real argument. True Story.
Jackie Nettleton 5 years ago
Good Tupperware that still has the fitting lids with it is important
#26
My friend divorced her husband because she read his text messages and saw that he was talking crap about her dogs to his friends. Her DOGS
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
'Tis a good thing that she does not understand what her dogs say about her to their friends when they meet in the park.
Ani Archeron 5 years ago
perfectly reasonable. doesn't matter if it was dogs, art, anything they loved, if their spouse is trashing it behind their backs? that's not right.
Ola Polowczyk 5 years ago
Of course. It's always the bigger problem behind such things. This was simply a boiling point.
Load More Replies... Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
If my spouse was trashing my/our pet I'd be concerned about how he was treating it when I wasn't around.
Rissie 5 years ago
Distrust by (mutual, we don't know) douche canouche behavior?
Load More Replies... Steve Cruz 5 years ago
One of the first things I do is introduce my furbabies to whomever I intend dating long-term.
#27
I deal with a lot of divorces at work. I once reviewed a complaint for divorce because the wife always left poop stains in the toilet.
Pamela24 5 years ago
The stains aren't the problem. Her refusing to do anything about it repeatedly is.
Rabbit Carrot 5 years ago
A divorce will cost thousands of dollars (way more if you’re rich). The cost of a loo brush is a dollar at most. Buy the loo brush.
Lisa Shelton 5 years ago
That was probably less about the stains themselves and more about the frustration of having to ask repeatedly for their spouse to clean up after themselves and having that request ignored.
Lana Jig-maker 5 years ago
Don't let a whole relationship go down the drain, because of a little stain.
#28
My friend's sister was a strict vegetarian. One night her husband gave her fish and meat, but she thought it was a meat substitute. When she found out it was real meat, she divorced him
nanashi 5 years ago
if the meat was given in malice or "pranks", the divorce is pretty much justified in my book.
('-')/ neeta ('-')/ 5 years ago
Totally! I'm a vegetarian too and I hate it when people don't respect my values and beliefs. Please stop playing "pranks" like this!!
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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Complete and total lack of respect for the values that your life-mate has is really baaad
DC 5 years ago
This is not a prank at all, and not funny. Imagine what would break lose if you served something religiously forbidden to someone - and now add that the reasons of vegetarians, regardless of you agreeing with them or not, are fact-based and not tale-based reasons, therefore even more deserving to be respected.
Nomadus Aureus 5 years ago
A "friend" of mine did this to me. In my family, we have a sort of a taboo related to a certain animal. It's not a religious thing, it's just how it is. I don't usually talk about it, however, if I have a feeling it might be on the menu, I will be giving a heads-up to people. I explained this to him, and at dinner, he served me stew. Guess what it was made of? And he was super smug about it, telling me it was it and "see how good it is? You can stop this stupid taboo." No. I will not stop it. It's my prerogative and you will not force me to go against it. Just like I'm not forcing you to take all the crucifixes and religious icons off your wall just because I'm not Catholic and don't believe in it. I felt SO disrespected, it still pisses me off.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
If the husband did it on purpose then fair enough coz it shows lack of respect.
Inga Viviane 5 years ago
I am a long term vegetarian. Meat substitutes and meat are different. I had some accidents with meat on pizza or anything, and the texture of a dead animal is different to a substitute. The first thing i do when given a substitute is looking at the texture. She might not have been a long term vegetarian, but then she should still remember the tase( i dont). I do not know if i am believing this.
Teodora L. Kostadinova 5 years ago
First of all, not funny. Second... long time vegetarians (not to mention vegans) lose the ability to digest animal protein properly. Talk about shi**y experience...
#29
I had a client file for divorce because every morning his wife would ask him how he takes his coffee. EVERY morning for seven years
Stannous Flouride 5 years ago
Likely. Or perhaps he drinks it differently every time. Some days I add sugar, some days I do not.
Load More Replies... Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
Why not appreciate she is making you a coffee in the first place. I understand it would be annoying and frustrating having the same question every day with the same answer. You could always make your own coffee.
deanna woods 5 years ago
My sister has epilepsy and can't remember things anymore, so she would probably ask everyday too.
Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
He probably changed how he wanted it so much when they were first married—-basically always setting her up to fail so he could act superior—-that she figured it was better to ask first rather than get yelled at (or worse) for assuming wrong. In other words, he could’ve been an abusive a*****e.
#30
Was a loud chewer at the dinner table. He developed a complex & literally needed out as he couldn't bear to eat with her.
Evil Little Thing 5 years ago
Since childhood I couldn't bear eat breakfast near my brother. He had a stuffy nose basically every morning and ate cereal with his mouth open. The slurping, chewing, and panting through half-chewed cereal sounded like a horror film. Disgusting .
Emmanuelle Mimieux 5 years ago
Me too it was awful. My sister too. One time I mustered all the strength I gad to politely ask if she could please chew quieter and she said no and proceeded to do it louder. Fun childhood.
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Dan Buczynski 5 years ago
This is a total dealbreaker. I went on a date with someone who did this, and it's the one time I gave serious thought to the "go to the restroom and never return" thing.
KT Trondsen 5 years ago
I ....actually get this. Some people chew in the most disgusting manner and I can see how it would be a massive turn off and end up being repulsed
nala simba 5 years ago
What? Why even gave kids if you can't teach them the basics like eating, using the bathroom, holding a pencil or knife and fork etc......that is child neglect!
Adam Belaire 5 years ago
I don't think I'm a loud chewer, but my wife doesn't like the sound of it. We compromised and have music playing while we eat. we don't start eating until something is playing. Works out great for us.
#31
My aunt divorced my uncle via a note. It was written on the brown paper wrapping of a pork roast, and it read, 'I’m leaving you for Diane.' My uncle wasn’t sure which to be more confused about: that she divorced him via pig steak missive, or that she was a lesbian
Pamela24 5 years ago
I can't shake off the feeling that if homosexuality was completely normalized in our society (as it already is in some places or at least some families/communities) this would stop happening. Once being gay is a no bigger deal than having a preference for short people, there won't be any stressful "coming out of the closet" because the closet will disappear. And people will stop trying to suppress their homosexuality to the point that they break once already in marriage with someone of the opposite sex. So in this story - I'm sorry for both the aunt and the uncle (more for him, though because she at least should have told him in person if not anything else).
David Fox 5 years ago
It anoys me when people have been living straight for half of there life having great sex and then suddnley say I'm gay what some one is actually gay the thought of the opposite sex genitals repulsed them naturally
Jon S. 5 years ago
Not at all. The list of gay people who have entered a straight marriage before it was acceptable to be gay and only came out in later life as it has slowly become less shameful is huge. Added to this women's sexuality is flexible and can change as they go through life. I had one lesbian friend who professed to being 100% lesbian but was married to a guy. She said she had fallen in love with him before she knew she was gay and still loved him, even though she didn't really find him physically attractive. They still had an active love life. The marriage didn't quite last a decade, and no one was surprised when it ended. The thing that surprised us was he left her.
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Kind of in the same category - I've had a lot of younger male potential clients come in for divorce consults with their mother. Then, during the consult, the mother does 98% of the talking, and it's clear who actually wants the divorce. (I'll usually escort Mom to wait in the lobby while I talk to the son directly, and most of the time he's just there to appease his mother.) On a related note, I once had just the mother call for a consult because she said explicitly she wanted her son to get a divorce. I politely informed her that's not how divorces worked...
Ivana Junas 5 years ago
Being controlled and manipulated by someone shouldn't warrant them getting insults.
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Lucas 5 years ago
Divorce lawyers I know have told me that young people frequently turn up with their parents these days. In those cases it wasn't about the parent wanting the divorce but just the 'child' wanting their hand held while they did grown-up, scary stuff. Need to bloody well grow up and stop being babied.
deanna woods 5 years ago
The sons should have never gone to a divorce lawyer to appease their mothers. If you don't like your daughter in law, stay away from her. Don't sabotage your son's marriage.
#33
In the '70s, when mundane middle-class people did ridiculous things, my aunt’s husband and the father of her two children divorced her because they 'no longer saw the same things in paintings
kathryn stretton 5 years ago
Probably a way to say they no longer see anything the same way. I get this.
Denis Brown 5 years ago
Sounds like he had a young art history major on the side and the 'reason' for the divorce was just an excuse. A-hole.
#34
I worked for a law office where the owner would talk about the man who sued for divorce because his wife would no longer allow him to use a loaded gun as a... "marital aid." She had apparently agreed to it at some point, and was fine with the gun as long as it was empty, but that just wasn't good enough for him
Bender Bending Rodríguez 5 years ago (edited)
The same kind of marital aid as a cucumber would be. That's my thought but I might be wrong.
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#35
Not a divorce lawyer but used to practice criminal defence work. Once had a heavily pregnant client that attacked her husband (of less than a year) with an iron. Said client was now sitting in a police cell, sobbing and insisting that her husband deserved it and she wanted a divorce. I asked what he had supposedly done, assuming he'd cheated or something similar. Turns out she'd checked his phone and found a single pornsite in his browsing history - from over two years beforehand... Not the most pleasant thing to discover, but hardly worth battering him half to death and demanding a divorce.
Untitled_Goose_Man 5 years ago
She's not. There was a woman recently who raped a 1year old, but it was ruled "Not pedophiela because she is a woman"
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CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago
My spousal unit (being very tech-unsavvy) gave our computer a virus by visiting a porn site. I just showed him where the safe ones were. Calm down ladies.
Dilly Millandry 5 years ago (edited)
My cousin had the same thing happen. He was worried his wife would find out and so I fixed his computer for him.
Load More Replies... Nomadus Aureus 5 years ago
Charged and then medicated + therapy. I've recently read an article on something called "pregnancy rage" and frankly it was terrifying. Obviously being hormonal shouldn't be an excuse for assault, but for the sake of the baby, someone should try and help the mom. Sadly, society, in general, doesn't take female abusers seriously...
Hello Dolly 5 years ago
Seriously is porn that big of a deal I mean once in two years sounds like a curiosity to me not like the guy actually liked porn....
Blakkur Sverrir 5 years ago
Probably got away. Not because she is a woman, but because hormones. Noticed the "heavily pregnant" part?
#36
Staff Attorney for a judge. Not a divorce but a custody modification hearing. Ex-wife wanted sole L&P custody of the kids because the ex-husband was spending all his money on a palm reader/psychic and refused to pay child support. On cross, ex-wife's attorney got him to admit that he was spending all his discretionary income on this psychic. He said he had spent over 5,000 dollars on "readings" and other services there. Judges frequently chime in with questions in domestic matters, so my judge asked why he was not paying support as his divorce decree required. His explanation was i) the psychic could "read" that his children were provided for without his money and ii) he would be able to repay the ex when he takes the children to Mexico permanently to "seek great riches" there. Which my judge read as "my psychic told me to kidnap my kids". tl;dr: Deadbeat ex-husband spent all his money on a psychic rather than child support. Told the judge he intended to kidnap his children.
kathryn stretton 5 years ago
Just feed your offspring. First. Then do whatever you want. Simple.
#37
I knew a guy from a high school job who divorced his wife of 2 months because she would sleep with a nightlight but he could only sleep in total darkness, as they apparently never lived together until after getting married. He hated her nightlight so much that he would often sleep on the couch instead, but sometimes he would claim the bed for himself and lock her out of the bedroom for the night.
Iapetos 5 years ago
My mum cannot bear my dad's loud snoring. So they sleep in different rooms. Their marriage is awesome.
Viviane 5 years ago
I feel blessed that my husband doesn't fuss if I occasionally sleep on the couch (it helps my occasional insomnia). Plus, I snore, too. ;)
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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
My Love, be the light of my day - but goddammit will ya switch it off at night!
Delandria Eleandil 5 years ago
I'm a night owl and my husband is a morning bird. We have separate bedrooms. We've been together for going on 16 years and we get along famously. Some people simply don't want to try.
Ruth Beaty 5 years ago
Marriage does not mean you have to share a bed or a room, many do better separated except for fun times. My grandparents were married for over 50 years and had separate rooms. My folks shared a both and divorced after 24. My husband and I shared both and were married for 39, but it was a good marriage for us.
#38
Basically a couple got married but never lived together. Shortly after marriage the husband dropped off the face of the earth and the wife had no way of contacting him. She didn't know any of his family and apparently the place he told her he worked at never heard of him. He disconnected his cell phone and she even hired a private detective to try and locate him with no success. Finally she tried to file for divorce (for obvious reasons) but for service to be considered valid the defendant has to be physically handed service papers. Since she couldn't find out where he was she couldn't even get divorced from him. She had to sue in court just to get permission from a judge to allow service through Facebook because that was literally the only means she had of contacting her husband
Dynein 5 years ago
Last sentence seems to imply she could contact him via facebook.
Load More Replies... David Fox 5 years ago
Why care so much about getting a devorce he wasn't asking anything from her
#39
Not a lawyer but a friend is , they said the husband wanted a divorce because the wife still wiped the ass of the perfectly healthy and mentally able teenage son among other things.
#40
My mother in law divorced my father in law so she could have “a fresh start with her dream job of teaching blind children to read.” Turns out, what she meant by that was: • Destroy my father in law’s pastor career by telling everyone he was abusive. • Got married to the guy she’d secretly been carrying on with. He’s a convicted child sex offender. She has grandchildren. She’s in a state of complete denial.
Lucas 5 years ago
They do sometimes have to employ private investigators.
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Aunt Messy 5 years ago
And no one has any idea what went on in that marriage before the divorce.
#41
He kept making terrible Star Wars puns. "Divorce is strong with this one"
kathryn stretton 5 years ago
Have a young relative doing the sane. Exact same. Won't be long....
#42
One of my clients got a divorce because his partner would keep the chips they bought in the car so she wouldn't have to share them with his family during reunions
Annett Nyrud 5 years ago
And why should his family eat her chips? The story does not say weather she never shared anything with them, or weather they could afford enough for everyone.
#43
He had an argument with the new inlaws during the wedding and moved out at around 5 am during the first night
#44
My client put his wife in an assisted living facility based on a misdiagnosis, the medication of which caused the wife to be unable to care for herself. While in the facility, my client shocker started dating another woman and methinks began using hard drugs. He used a loooot of money on both of these things. She eventually got off the medication and got better. Suffice to say, she was not happy about what had transpired.
Martha Meyer 5 years ago
The misdiagnosis and medication part sounds like the plot for a horror movie
#45
I represented a porn actress/webcam model who filed for divorce from her husband who also did the porn/webcam model business. He would do gay porn on the side because the pay was better. She was hesitant about it, but dealt with it because the pay was decent. Both sides had an agreement that it wasn't cheating as long as it was for work. One day she came home early and found her husband in bed with two men... they were not filming... that was too much for her. Needless to say, the old conservative judge couldn't wrap his head around this one...
#46
Divorce lawyer here. One client filed for divorce because he owed his bookie $70,000. He didn't want to leave his wife but he figured he would get half the house in the divorce, which was worth $700,000 and pay his debts. He had already blew through their life savings gambling. He was the worst guy.
#47
My boss just got divorced. His wife was telling people one of her reasons was the amount of toilet paper he used. She was a super coupon clipper thrifty lady and would listen when he went to the bathroom to see if he was using “too much tp”
#48
My Dad has been married several times (more than 4). His last wife asked him to rub her feet and he said no. She told him to get the f*ck out. He was super excited and said ok bye, you will hear from my attorney. Obviously that was the straw that broke the camel's back. Makes me laugh every time someone ask why did they split up?!! No feet rub for you!!
#49
Not me, but a friend my mum has divorced her husband because his mother still coddled him at age 40, with his consent. They lived with his mother (common in Asia). By coddle I mean that she would walk straight into their room after his shower and powder his back for him. They couldn’t lock their bedroom door because his mother would come in as and when she wanted. If they locked the door, she would knock repeatedly asking what they were doing. Lol what would they be possibly doing??? Playing poker???
kathryn stretton 5 years ago
Mom, "But he's my baby!". Age 40. Quite common where i live too. Not my home country which is uk. Girls, however are treated like adult mothers from age 4 onwards. Have seen a 4 year old girl hand feeding her 8 year old brother who can't feed himself.
Kimberley Thomas 5 years ago
Good grief. I mean bad marriage. Another situation in which I'm assuming "the couple" didn't live together before marriage. Where was the father n law? Dead and buried? Or divorced and happy?
#50
My 90 year old client (the husband) and his son retained me to initiate divorce proceedings with his 88 year old wife. They’d been married 60 years. The wife had recently taken to beating him with his own cane, because their daughter poisoned her into thinking he was hiding money from them. The battle came down to husband and son versus wife and daughter. At their first court appearance, my client showed up in an old 1950s style pin stripe suit and fedora. He was a farmer his whole life, and this was clearly the only suit he owned. He was such a meek and lovely old gentleman. I had to pass my client onto a new lawyer midway through the proceedings because I accepted a job in a different country, but I understand the divorce was eventually granted.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
That is just sad, I don’t understand how anyone can manipulate someone let alone their parents. Beating with a cane or anything is never okay, I am wondering though whether the mum was in the best frame of mind if she had never been violent in the 60 years prior.
#51
Most people are interpreting outrageous as an overblown minor annoyance, but I'll put one out there on the other end. When I was working at the DA's office, there was a woman who had sex with her son's 15 year old friend. The awkward part was that the husband was the high school baseball coach for both of the boys. My job at the time involved going through the evidence, including all of the text messages, where they eventually decided upon divorce. The only thing I really recall is that the man interrupted the text conversation about the affair to say "BRB. I'm going to get a McRib." The texting resumed about 40 minutes later. Needless to say, criminal law is weird and I decided to pursue another specialty.
Malakai 5 years ago
Wish this would address the woman was a straight-up PEDOPHILE a little more seriously. She didn't simply /cheat/, she f*****g had sex with a MINOR. A GROWN-A*S WOMAN. If you swapped the genders and this story said 'married man sleeps with child's 15yo gal pal' I bet your a*s the tone would be a LOT different. Still, I hope the dad was able to divorce her and take the kid with him
Lucas 5 years ago
She would have been prosecuted in the UK - I've seen cases where it's happened.
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Luciana Formaggini 5 years ago
That woman is a pedophile!! It pisses me off how people fail to see that!
#52
I know a couple, both lawyers. Got separated because the the husband can't stand the wife's loud and energetic personality.
Jon S. 5 years ago
Got married too quickly I'll bet. The same thing things we find endearing in the first 6 months of a relationship when you are flushed with passion can turn into a drag after 12 months
Load More Replies... Blakkur Sverrir 5 years ago
What better reason for a divorce, than incompatible personalities? It does not always have to be cheating or criminal actions. A divorce is absolutely legit if they do not love each other anymore
kathryn stretton 5 years ago
I get 5his. When in company, outside with freinds or whatever, all the loud charisma is good, but it's nice to get home together after a good night out and just switch off. Home, haven, relax, maybe another wine. I don't always want the pparty to continue at home.
#53
My neighbour filed for divorce because he smacked his lips when he ate and slurped his coffee and soup. She thought if she didn't she would end up in jail for batter
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
If it was a choice between divorce or battery then she certainly made the right choice.
lara 5 years ago
You know in some cultures slurping and smacking while you eat is considered a compliment to the chef/cook. To not do so means, in those cultures, that you did not like the food. I have a friend, a very nice cultured and sophisticated lady who is of Chinese descent and when we go out to have lunch, she does the exact same thing.
Gabi 5 years ago
It is a thing if it comes from culture, but I have a feeling that the dude in the story had less culture than a 2-day old yogurt.
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Caroline Seguin 4 years ago
It's a condition. It's called Misophonia. Can't stand certain sounds, make you really angry for no reason.
#54
Not a divorce lawyer, but have done marriage therapy. Had a soldier stationed at Guantanamo Bay that met a local. Fell madly in love. They decided to get married so she could come with him back in the states once his tour was done. She was working on American dishes, and was making spaghetti. He comes home from work one day, and she's making it. She puts the meat in, puts the canned sauce in, and then pulls an unlabeled bag out of the freezer and adds it to the sauce. At this point in the session she's hysterically crying with broken spanglesh. She's trying to explain she didn't know any better. Through the hysteria he informs me her mother and grandmother told her if she wanted to keep her man, she needed to put her menstrual blood in his food. It was so hard to keep my composure. I was trying to hard not to gag. They both described they were madly in love, but he couldn't let it go. They ended up getting a divorce. Having done this for 14 years, I have found it 100% accurate that truth is stranger than fiction.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
In some cultures such as the African-American hoodoo culture, and in Sicilian folk magic, it’s believed that serving menstrual blood to a man will capture his sexual attention. You don’t need any spells to go along with it – supposedly the woman’s scent is added to the man’s consciousness and he’ll either become obsessed with her, commit to her or never stray, depending on what the owner of the period blood is trying to achieve. Read more at: https://www.stayathomemum.com.au/fun-stuff/the-women-who-sneak-period-blood-into-their-partners-food/
Chris Jones 5 years ago
My dinner is coming out of the oven in just under 5 minutes - quite gone off it.
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My mom told me that the breaking point of her marriage was when she found out my dad spent $65 a week at Starbucks
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Totally understandable. She probably had to make a lot of wise decisions to be able to balance the household expenses while he happily spent almost 300 dollars a month at Starbucks. The husband of a friend of mine demanded that the teenage son stop playing football (soccer) because his feet had grown and his dad didn't want to spend money on shoes. The amount of money he spent on marijuana and alcohol in a week was more than that.
Luisa Vasconcelos 5 years ago
What she have against Starbucks ? Just joking. 65 a week in the end of a year it's quite something.
CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago
I'm guessing there was a lot of other stuff going on and the Starbucks thing was the final straw.
#56
Worked in matrimonial law for a year and a half before I had to leave bc it just overwhelmed me with how awful humanity is. I'll never forget filing papers that described her soon to be ex husband's behavior, including: "masturbates on the living room couch without closing the door and leaves sticky tissues everywhere" with further description of their 3 young children potentially walking in on him.
Lucas 5 years ago
Please note the word potentially. A lot of spurious c**p gets added into divorce petitions but just because someone 'might' do something doesn't mean that it is likely that they will. Even if it is true that there is a risk of the children walking in this does not make the man a pedophile - for that he would have to be aroused by the children. It's disgusting, absolutely, but not pedophilia.
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I was a legal assistant when this case came in, but this lady divorced her husband of two months because he got her an iPad case for her birthday instead of the expensive jewelry she wanted.
#58
A friend of the family got divorced by her husband because she couldn't outperform him on the golf course.. we all think he was cheating and just wanted an excuse but she did say he would often yell at her in public while golfing and mock her for her "attention to detail" whatever the [hell] that means in golf... He would also force the family to go golfing on most weekends so it's hard to say if that was the real reason or not. She doesn't even like golf but was, and still is, afraid to tell him that.
Angela-Jayne Linford 4 years ago
I know where said golf clubs would have been stored had I been her....somewhere the sun doesnt shine springs to mind!
Load More Replies... #59
Taught the parakeet certain cuss words for his wife. Hahaha. The parrot lives with the man now.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
So ... the parakeet had the balls to say it but that yellow canary of a husband didn't
#60
“The dog he 'bought' me pissed on the carpet”
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
Hopefully the client didn’t keep the dog if she/he is going to the extreme or divorce because a doggy had an accident.
#61
He was frustrated by her hoarding. She was frustrated by his utter uselessness. He filed for divorce, and she was my client. Her prized possession was a room or two full of scrapbooking materials. His prized possession was a yard full of junk cars that he never worked on. They had no children and no real assets. They hated each other more than any two people I'd ever met, and the only terms they would agree to were these: he gets the scrapbooking stuff, and she gets the cars. My client also took the house, as he had no income and didn't want it anyway. It was the shortest divorce decree I ever drafted. I intentionally squeezed it onto one page, and the judge and I had a good laugh over it. Once the decree was signed and filed, she hauled all the scrapbooking stuff to the yard, and he removed it to the dump. She then called a junk shop I referred her to and had all of his cars removed from the yard.
Final score:
16points
Chris Jones 5 years ago
Why didn't they each get their own 'prized possessions'? Though arguably not having them would be beneficial.
Nomadus Aureus 5 years ago
Pettiness? I want the other person's stuff, so I can get rid of it to spite them.
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My aunt had a case where the wife had glued all of the outdoor hoses together so he wouldnt spend more time washing his vehicle anymore. When the glue didnt work she just cut them all up. When he bought new ones ahe filed for divorce.
Evil Little Thing 5 years ago
One of my neighbors is always outside washing his boat. He washes it for hours every day. I've never seen it leave his driveway. I assume he's using it to avoid someone in his house.
Kimberley Thomas 5 years ago
If he washes it in the rain with no delay, then yes. "Avoid by all costs." as they say.
Load More Replies... Jon S. 5 years ago
How much time can a person spend washing vehicles? Even if he had three cars and liked to do it each day, i would employ a psychologist, not a knife.
Lucas 5 years ago
Hard to know who needs the psychologist. Maybe he washes the cars daily - which would be excessive and obsessive. If he's doing it once a week and the wife minds that much she's the one that needs the help.
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#63
Not me but my friend who specialises in family law. Wife wanted to divorce husband because he kept taking their dogs for walks while she was at work, making it (unintentionally) so they’d rather cuddle the husband instead of her after a long day.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
I never liked small dogs, jack russels or chihuahuas but my hubby loves jack russels. One day he picked me up from work with a lil puppy and asked if we could keep her. She was cute but most dogs are cute as puppies. I thought it would be more attached to him but in the end it was her and I that had the special bond. My hubby was a little jealous sometimes but would never consider divorcing me over it. She has been gone for over 6 years and I still miss her dearly.
Chris Jones 5 years ago
There you see folks - it isn't the breed but the individual dog that you get to know. I'm glad you had that experience Foxxy. People (and I'm not saying that this was what you did) make so many assumptions about small dogs being a pain or snappy but that's mainly because there are stupid owners that think that you don't need to bother to train small dogs. All dogs benefit from good training and then they all have the potential to make fantastic pets! Typing this with a tiny cavapoo sitting on my lap! She's got a fantastically gentle nature but I still made sure she was properly trained.
Load More Replies... Geoffrey Holland 5 years ago
Did she not understand that dogs need to be walked more than once? She could have walked them after work. Or was she just plain stupid?
#64
Lawyer here. One of mine that sticks out is that the husband and wife both played some sort of on-line role-playing game, sort of like the Sims I think but a little more elaborate and adult ('Second Life' maybe?). I don't know anything about online games. The wife got heavily involved with the game, like 10 hours a day, and wouldn't reduce her time playing no matter what he said. What tipped things over the edge however was that he set up a fake profile/ avatar and went online to stalk her in the game and found her avatar having sex with some random guy's avatar. Nothing ever happened in real life (neither of them were exactly oil paintings to look at) but that was enough for the guy to initiate a fairy acrimonious divorce.
CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago
Honestly, playing RPG for 10 hours per day every day is reason enough. You are neglecting everything else in life for a fantasy.
#65
My aunt was dating an unemployed dude for a while. He was staying in her house rent free. They got married and were getting ready to go on the honeymoon when the new husband tells her he’s not going because he has to take care of his plants at the house. Big fight. Aunt goes on the honeymoon with her sisters instead. She comes home and tries to kick him out of her house, he refuses to leave. She tries to get the police involved. Dude is live-streaming on Facebook how he is being trapped in his own home. Police tell my aunt there is basically nothing they can do, can file for eviction after a divorce. Dude gets to live in her house with his precious plants for like 3 months until everything legally gets worked out.
Chris Jones 5 years ago
Sad how that even has to be something you'd need to advise!
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#66
My dad split my mom because "she takes too long to tell a story". He was actually having affair #4795809374 and that came out shortly after. But this was one of the main reasons he gave when they did a counselling session together.
#67
Not a divorce lawyer, but was told of a client that filed for divorce with his wife because she kept eating his food
#68
I have a client whose wife filed for divorce because my client hasn’t successfully quit smoking yet.
Rex the Rat 5 years ago
I think this is reasonable, this could have been an ongoing struggle and when the client wasn't able to quit smoking they decided it would have been better to be apart then to continue fighting
Bill Taylor 5 years ago
I dated a smoker once, can't say I liked it as a non-smoker. The smell makes me ill.
Katie Allen 5 years ago
Kissing smokers is not pleasant. Their whole mouth tastes like cigarettes all the time.
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Jon S. 5 years ago
Sounds like it was a condition of the marriage: "I'll marry you if you quit smoking"
Load More Replies... Ivana Junas 5 years ago
This needs moe information to say if it's silly or reasonable. Is he trying to? It's a difficult addiction to beat and requires a lot of willpower, support, and it takes time. Is he getting the support? Was she supporting him? How long had he been trying to quit?
#69
Heard this one while mobing for deployment. Guy signs over Power of Attorney to his mother before leaving. As soon as he was out of the country mother files for divorce of the wife because they never got along. Dude is in the middle of the desert and didn't know until he came back in three weeks after the fact.
Aunt Messy 5 years ago
The mother is not legally able to file for divorce. You were told a lie.
CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago
Why would he give his mother POA when he's married? Why not the wife?
Ruth Beaty 5 years ago
Why give the mother power of attorney and not the wife, sounds fishy to me...
Kimberley Thomas 5 years ago
Too many nosy mothers. Are they Pinocchio or do they have nothing better to do? Did the wife not communicate with the husband as a result? I don't think an actual divorce can be done by a 2nd party due to a power of attorney, plus 3 weeks sounds too quick. So the ending of this would be helpful. I feel as if I'm waiting for the weekend to be over so I can continue the cliffhanger from Friday to continue watching my soap on Monday.
Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 5 years ago
Why did he give power of attorney to the mother? Wouldn't the wife be the one?
#70
My Grandfathers brother was a judge who presided over state issue marriages from time to time, one couple he married returned six months later to "Confirm" the wedding and end their trial marriage, when he thusly informed them that there was no such thing and that they had been married for six months they subsequently broke up
#71
He loved his pinball machine collection more than her. Also it turns out some pin ball machines can be worth a s**t load of money.
#72
Not the most outrageous, but I had a client incur about 20 additional hours of billable hours because he and his ex-wife were battling and went to trial over their Star Wars Collection. This was the only issue at trial, they were able to work out custody, child support, the house, but the Star Wars collection went to trial. The Judge ended up splitting it in the most assholish way possible, basically giving each side half of what they wanted and then mixing and matching everything else and breaking up 'collections'. When speaking about it at a conference, the Judge admitted she did it because if they were going to act like children, she would treat them like children. The thing is, the value of this collection was over $100k, so hardly kids stuff. Neither side had it in them to appeal (nor was the case law on either side given judicial discretion in property distribution).
#73
I’m not a lawyer but I was once buying a computer from someone on craigslist and when I got to his house it was full of computers everywhere. There where monitors laying on the floor and half built computers laying around, full built computers all over the place. And I’m talking expensive gaming computers not your every day all in one computers. We got to talking about why he had so many and the guy said he was just obsessed with them and he confessed that the reason his wife divorced him was because “she said I was too obsessed with my computers”
Chris Jones 5 years ago
Obsessions don't tend to be healthy things! Even obsessions with healthy eating and exercise can go to far.
#74
I had some friends get divorced Becuase she legit hated Dale Earnhardt and he legit hated Jeff Gordon.
Alex Bailey 5 years ago
And to think in many countries we don't have any idea who either of these people are.
Katie Allen 5 years ago
I don't know who those people are and I'm from the US
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I got into scams because of a lawyer in my old office represented a woman whose husband left her because she got involved in a romance scam that started as a pen pal. It was a weird marriage. He was clearly a closet gay who married her for her money because she was ugly as all hell. They kept separate lives for 30 years. She began corresponding with someone she believed was a 3 star General serving in Afghanistan. It went the typical way scams like this do: she fell in love and he needed $$$ to move from Afghanistan back to the United States. She eventually would transfer him about $70,000 over the course of 8 months. Even when my friend brought me into the conference room to lay out the case as being a scam, for which I had piles of proof for, she continued to transfer money including a $8000 transfer the day after. The judge ruled she owed her husband dollar for dollar what she gave the scammer, so $70k plus he issued a temporary restraining order barring her from transferring marital assets. My friend dumped her as a client when she showed interest in appealing the TRO and trying to expedite her divorce so she could "marry" the scammer.
Chris Jones 5 years ago
Ah - he may well have married her for her money but I don't think we should assume it just because 'she was ugly as all hell'. My interest ran out after that tbh...
Katie Allen 5 years ago
Desperation makes people do things they would never do otherwise.
Load More Replies... Jennifer Crompton 5 years ago
If he really did marry her for her money and didn't actually love her, she was probably starved for attention which made her more vulnerable to fall for the scam I feel sorry for her
#76
Knew a couple a little over a decade ago who I was close friends with. The wife wanted children and after several months of trying plus a doctor visit later he was found to be infertile / unable to have children due to his sperm. She filed for divorce several weeks later. Then one random hookup later she got pregnant from a one night stand while the proceedings were still going. He used that in the court battle which assisted with him taking the majority of their possessions post split due to her actions
Xavier Wescott 5 years ago
This is just sad, there are so many options out there. I guess it was not meant to be. Can you really blame the guy though? I'm sure he wanted children just as much as she did.
#77
Client said her husband was dealing meth... well technically “cooking” meth
#78
NAL, but the story of the couple in Algeria always gets me. Groom sees his new wife the morning after the wedding without makeup, takes her for an intruder, and proceeds to sue for over $10k for psychological trauma
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago (edited)
Haha, When I was about 14 I was dumped coz I looked uglier in normal light than the disco lights at the local skating centre.
#79
Clients husband was divorcing her because she had transitioned from a woman to a man, then back to a woman again after regretting the first transition. The husband realized he preferred men and couldn’t cope with the second transition back to a woman. Two great people who just couldn’t make it work together I have to add
CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago
I don't know how it works in other countries, but here in the States you have to go through some EXTENSIVE hoops to get transgender surgery. Unless this might be referring to the hormonal transition and not surgical? I'm just confused.
Nadine Khazaka 5 years ago
Sounds trans phobic to me, transitioning is a process that usually takes years, nothing you do on a whim.
#80
Not a divorce lawyer, but there's this famous case that all law students know about. The wife asked for annulment of marriage, because almost a year into the marriage, they still haven't had sex. The husband has been avoiding it for almost a year, and later on the court found out that he actually only has a 2 inch penis.
Kimberley Thomas 5 years ago
Sounds as if they never got naked during the dating phase either.
#81
NAL, but my old neighbor divorced his wife because she no longer wanted to dye her hair blonde. Probs more reasons, but that was his final straw
#82
not a divorce lawyer, but I had a friend whose parents divorced for irreconcilable differences over time spent playing Everquest.
CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago
Again, this is a legit reason if the time on the game is excessive.
#83
Not that outrageous, but our client’s wife (soon to be ex) of 20 years left him for her gym instructor, whom he introduced, and who’s also a woman.
Geoffrey Holland 5 years ago
This is probably one of the most commonplace reasons for divorce ever. Why even list this?
#84
He was still living with his mom
Jon S. 5 years ago
I suspect the implication is that even after the marriage he continued to live with his mom rather than start a family home. Although the statement is open to other interpretations.
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kathryn stretton 5 years ago
Another one, many years ago. Am an oldie. This was approx 1978 ish. I knew both of them, as you did in those days. I had dated him twice, also knew her for years. Nornal. I was ivited to wedding by both. Old mates n all that. So, they have to get married because she's pregnant. Him being a decent bloke at the time (very very good looking and in demand at the time) said I will marry you then. So, at the church, just after the vows were done, and they were now wed and walking back down the aisle, she said to him, quietly "By the way, I'm not pregnant at all. Just wanted you to be mine forever.". Oops. He let go of her hand, walked out of the church and buggered off. We all gad no clue what was going on. She's crying and saying nothing obviously. In the end, he got an annulment. All's well that ends well. No idea where these two are now. Seemed, was, important at the time. Just an anecdote for me now.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
I think most divorces, whatever the *cited* reason, come down to who is in "control", who "wins", etc. Thrice marital-counseled, once-separated. We came very close to divorce. SO MUCH is about respect and communication and compromise (yes, compromise). Deal with your own issues before your try to deal with someone else's, btw, and then deal with the shared issues. Or it's just a big cyclical mess. IMHO.
Mike Crow 5 years ago
Many years ago I heard a story that a woman was marrying Canadian Forces members and then divorce them a couple years later. She was doing this to collect half the pensions of each of the three men she married. After this was found out they changed the rules so a spouse can only collect half a pension of the years they have been with that Forces member.
Barbara Vandewalle 5 years ago
My cousin was sent on a TDY. When he returned, she had divorced him, left him with $20,000 debt, which he did not sign for. Took the kids and he never saw them again. This happens to a lot of service men. The military does nothing to help them. The thing I wonder about is all the lies she told does that null and void the divorce? She married a second time. Is she a bigamist?
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kathryn stretton 5 years ago
That's so sad. Maybe boring to her. Hopefully not boring to someone else. Sometimes, time changes folk.
Load More Replies... Ilir Ajdini 5 years ago
I had that bad and painful experience once. It is never so simple, is almost never only one or two reasons for divorcing
nanashi 5 years ago
I'm not one who believes in marriages, but a divorce shouldn't have a "good" reason I think. one should be able to get a divorce no matter how stupid the reason would be. it's better to be separated than to force two people who no longer likes one another to stay together, or else it would lead to someone getting hurt or abused like their kids or pets etc.
Carrot dude 5 years ago
Yes, in most cases it's better to divorce. But if a couple has kids, it's important that they at least try to work out their problems. I know divorce is hard on a lot of kids. However, if the marriage is broken, they should definitely get divorced. The kids might be more traumatized to be part of such a broken family- ESPECIALLY if it could lead to hurt or abuse.
Load More Replies... kathryn stretton 5 years ago
Once had a friend kicked her live-in man out because he wore slippers. In the house. Terrible!! Minus 16 outside and poor circulation. But, slippers!!! Gone. Lol
Jace 5 years ago
For f**k’s sake, people, LIVE with your partner a while BEFORE marrying them. A f**k ton of this s**t could be avoided (assuming these f****d-up people aren’t suddenly f****d-up due to suffering traumatic brain injuries after marrying). I couldn’t get even a quarter of the way through this list because this s**t is AVOIDABLE. The culture around marriage is so f*****g toxic.
Rose the Cook 5 years ago
These are reasons why someone wanted a divorce but what about legal grounds for divorce? Surely none of these would stand up in a court. Intersted to know the legal grounds in various countries.
kathryn stretton 5 years ago
Another one, many years ago. Am an oldie. This was approx 1978 ish. I knew both of them, as you did in those days. I had dated him twice, also knew her for years. Nornal. I was ivited to wedding by both. Old mates n all that. So, they have to get married because she's pregnant. Him being a decent bloke at the time (very very good looking and in demand at the time) said I will marry you then. So, at the church, just after the vows were done, and they were now wed and walking back down the aisle, she said to him, quietly "By the way, I'm not pregnant at all. Just wanted you to be mine forever.". Oops. He let go of her hand, walked out of the church and buggered off. We all gad no clue what was going on. She's crying and saying nothing obviously. In the end, he got an annulment. All's well that ends well. No idea where these two are now. Seemed, was, important at the time. Just an anecdote for me now.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
I think most divorces, whatever the *cited* reason, come down to who is in "control", who "wins", etc. Thrice marital-counseled, once-separated. We came very close to divorce. SO MUCH is about respect and communication and compromise (yes, compromise). Deal with your own issues before your try to deal with someone else's, btw, and then deal with the shared issues. Or it's just a big cyclical mess. IMHO.
Mike Crow 5 years ago
Many years ago I heard a story that a woman was marrying Canadian Forces members and then divorce them a couple years later. She was doing this to collect half the pensions of each of the three men she married. After this was found out they changed the rules so a spouse can only collect half a pension of the years they have been with that Forces member.
Barbara Vandewalle 5 years ago
My cousin was sent on a TDY. When he returned, she had divorced him, left him with $20,000 debt, which he did not sign for. Took the kids and he never saw them again. This happens to a lot of service men. The military does nothing to help them. The thing I wonder about is all the lies she told does that null and void the divorce? She married a second time. Is she a bigamist?
Load More Replies... kathryn stretton 5 years ago
That's so sad. Maybe boring to her. Hopefully not boring to someone else. Sometimes, time changes folk.
Load More Replies... Ilir Ajdini 5 years ago
I had that bad and painful experience once. It is never so simple, is almost never only one or two reasons for divorcing
nanashi 5 years ago
I'm not one who believes in marriages, but a divorce shouldn't have a "good" reason I think. one should be able to get a divorce no matter how stupid the reason would be. it's better to be separated than to force two people who no longer likes one another to stay together, or else it would lead to someone getting hurt or abused like their kids or pets etc.
Carrot dude 5 years ago
Yes, in most cases it's better to divorce. But if a couple has kids, it's important that they at least try to work out their problems. I know divorce is hard on a lot of kids. However, if the marriage is broken, they should definitely get divorced. The kids might be more traumatized to be part of such a broken family- ESPECIALLY if it could lead to hurt or abuse.
Load More Replies... kathryn stretton 5 years ago
Once had a friend kicked her live-in man out because he wore slippers. In the house. Terrible!! Minus 16 outside and poor circulation. But, slippers!!! Gone. Lol
Jace 5 years ago
For f**k’s sake, people, LIVE with your partner a while BEFORE marrying them. A f**k ton of this s**t could be avoided (assuming these f****d-up people aren’t suddenly f****d-up due to suffering traumatic brain injuries after marrying). I couldn’t get even a quarter of the way through this list because this s**t is AVOIDABLE. The culture around marriage is so f*****g toxic.
Rose the Cook 5 years ago
These are reasons why someone wanted a divorce but what about legal grounds for divorce? Surely none of these would stand up in a court. Intersted to know the legal grounds in various countries.
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