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Getting married is a big decision, but that won’t stop some folks from ending it over, seemingly, nothing. As conventional wisdom would suggest, divorces are rarely the result of just one thing, but sometimes the reason people provide is so unhinged or unusual that others take note.

Someone asked netizens to share “the dumbest, weirdest, or most bizarre reason you’ve heard for a couple getting divorced” and people detailed their best stories. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorite examples and be sure to add your own experiences and tales to the comments section down below.

#1

Man pushing shopping cart in grocery store aisle filled with snacks, illustrating bizarre reasons for divorce. I divorced my ex husband because he bought the wrong kind of coffee for the third time in a row.

This was obviously not the only reason/whole story but it was a definitive event in my mind when I knew the marriage was over. I had asked him nicely the last two times he bought that kind to pick a different variety because it tasted burnt.

I had three little kids and my morning coffee was my lifeblood, we were always tight on money anyway, and he just had to ruin that small thing for me.

It was the years of disrespect, weaponized incompetence and his refusal to act like a f*cking adult that all culminated in him buying the wrong coffee and me losing the will to fight for that one sided relationship.

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Snazzy Smurf
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3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sometimes the smallest thing can cause an implosion.

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    #2

    Couple holding hands in a desert landscape, illustrating bizarre reasons why someone wanted a divorce concept. I have a cousin who I'm not close to (for obvious reasons) that has always been very racist. So imagine our surprise when he dated, married, and had kids with a Mexican woman.

    Six years in he divorced her and said *in court* that he just couldn't stand being married to a Mexican any longer. He told the judge he "thought she'd be less Mexican after the wedding"

    Thankfully, she got the kids in the divorce and she moved them far away from that part of my family. I still get Christmas cards from her, she's a wonderful lady.

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    #3

    Jewelry store assistant showing a necklace to a customer, illustrating bizarre reasons people wanted a divorce. He didn’t buy me anything for Christmas. Like nothing. We were young and broke but I found a receipt for a jewelry store purchase in his truck. I (admittedly) got my hopes up and then Christmas came and went and still nothing. That jewelry store purchase was for himself. He went 3 days before Christmas and bought himself a Masonic ring. It was the fact that he stood there right before Christmas and never gave me a thought. Things already weren’t great, but that’s what broke it.

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    Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can just buy Masonic rings? I thought there was a whole induction and trial thing.

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    #4

    45 Of The Dumbest And Weirdest Reasons That Pushed People To Get A Divorce I heard an American couple divorced so one of them would qualify for health coverage (they couldn't afford treatment without the coverage and they didn't qualify for government coverage while they were married).

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    AtMostAFabulist
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sounds about right. Welcome to Murica!

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    #5

    45 Of The Dumbest And Weirdest Reasons That Pushed People To Get A Divorce They found out they were father and daughter. 18 year old girl, didn't know ow her biological dad... started dating an older guy. They got engaged. When she introduced him to her mom, mom was like,.. umm. That's your dad.

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    Gingersnap In Iowa
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ohh lordy! That therapy bill is going to be huge.

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    #6

    45 Of The Dumbest And Weirdest Reasons That Pushed People To Get A Divorce Penguin0 did a video of a thread between a husband and wife. He said he checked it out and as far as he could tell, it’s true, because they did get divorced. Apparently the (ex) wife posted it.

    A man divorced his wife because she breastfed their newborn baby while she was still in the hospital after just having given birth. It seems he had told her he didn’t like her breastfeeding when their first baby was born because it gave him “feelings” and he didn’t want her to breastfeed their new baby. I guess she’d agreed not to? but did anyway when the baby came.

    He was really angry. He told her that he enjoyed her breasts and now he couldn’t because “another man” (his words about his 3 day old son) had partaken of them and so she’d taken that enjoyment away from him. He called her disrespectful to him and even said he thinks breastfeeding is low key incestuous.

    So yeah, he divorced his wife because he thinks breastfeeding is cheating…

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    #7

    Young woman receiving IV therapy in a hospital room, reflecting on bizarre reasons why someone wanted a divorce. There's so many horror stories out there of men leaving their wives after the wife gets cancer.

    Well, this one woman was diagnosed with cancer and she thought her husband would do that so she filed for divorce. He begged her not to. He wasn't going to leave her. He was going to stay by her side no matter what. He was her ride or die. But she wouldn't listen.

    She's now cancer-free and regrets her decision and has been trying to get back together with him. He's remarried now and has told her to f**k off in every single way.

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    Okiedokie
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ...yeah...this one is sad for both parties involved...

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    #8

    Woman wearing a sleep mask resting on a bed with a satin pillow, illustrating bizarre reasons why someone wanted a divorce. My sister-in-law dreamed once that a literal Knight in shining armor rescued her from something terrible and rode away with her on his steed. When they were away from danger she pulled the knight's helmet off it wasn't her current husband.

    She told my wife and me this story. She wanted advice on how to tell her husband that she doesn't believe he is the one for her. I started to laugh because it was the stupidest thing I have ever heard and I asked her multiple times if she was messing with me. I was then told I was an a*****e for laughing at her dream. And making a joke about her feelings. I had to ask her if she is serious because of how stupid it sounded.

    At that point, I knew the sister in law was dumb and out of touch. I make sure to mention it every so often casually. My wife realized that day that her sister lives in a fantasy world.

    They were divorced within the year. I guess her ex-husband had the same feelings I did.

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    tresgatos72
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He is much better off without that moronic "damsel in distress".

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    #9

    45 Of The Dumbest And Weirdest Reasons That Pushed People To Get A Divorce My friend's husband asked for a divorce and claimed the reason was because he had fallen out of love with her due to an "insensitive" Facebook post.



    A close family member of his had died, and after the funeral, my friend flew back home while her husband stayed on for some weeks to help his family. The day he flew back home, she posted something to the effect of looking forward to seeing him after being apart for so long. He claimed that was insensitive of her due to the reason they had been apart and made him see her differently.


    Personally, I'm pretty sure the real reason for the divorce was the coworker he'd been spending a lot of time with and started dating during the divorce, but he claims it was the Facebook post.

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    #10

    Woman sitting on bed upset while man watches, illustrating bizarre reasons why someone wanted a divorce conflict. A friend of mine got divorced because she found out her husband was also her biological brother.

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    #11

    Couple reviewing divorce papers with lawyer in office, illustrating bizarre reasons for wanting a divorce. She found out her highschool sweetheart, her "first love" was recently single and available.


    Filed for divorce, started chasing him immediately, he didn't want a relationship, went back to her husband who didn't want her back, due to a prenup she got SFA in the divorce (no kids), and ended up losing her job when it was found she was stealing from the company.


    The ex-husband is happily remarried, has a successful business and two beautiful daughters.

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    #12

    Frustrated woman in yellow sweater ignoring angry man during a heated argument about divorce reasons at home. I knew a man who divorced his wife because he found out a few years in that she had slept with a Black man in the past.

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    Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've heard this theory from very very VERY stupid men that women can save the s***m from previous partners and impregnate when they find the one they want. AgaIn. this is a thing that people too stupid to know how to pour their own slushie at a 7-11 believe. This guy sounds like one of them.

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    #13

    45 Of The Dumbest And Weirdest Reasons That Pushed People To Get A Divorce He went thru the laundry, picked his out, and left mine there. I was going thru the worst depression of my life, didn’t do laundry one week due to my physical health and a busy work week. When I saw that, I realized he didn’t care. It wasn’t because it was too much for the machine or separating whites. We just threw our stuff in there and set it to wash. He claimed that it was because he didn’t want to mess up my clothes knowing exactly how I’ve been doing laundry for the last 14 years. He didn’t see any value in helping me or any value in what I did day in and out while working a physically demanding job. It was his stuff vs ours. I was expected to drop everything for him, but when I needed him I was left alone.

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    Rafael
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It seems to me that this dude was an ársehole anyway, but I must say that I get yelled at when I DO her laundry. Her clothes always have some sort of esoteric washing enchantment routine that I just can't figure out..

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    #14

    Close-up portrait of a woman with heterochromia looking serious, reflecting on stupid and bizarre reasons for divorce. She got chronic dry eye, which made it uncomfortable for her to wear contacts. Her husband couldn't handle that her eyes were different colors due to heterochromia.

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    AtMostAFabulist
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    3 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Did she wear colored contacts all the time before they were married? Otherwise they would still be two colors like they were beforehand.

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    #15

    45 Of The Dumbest And Weirdest Reasons That Pushed People To Get A Divorce My friend’s husband, after 26 years of marriage, went to Burning Man with some work colleagues, apparently did a lot of psychedelic d***s, and came back a changed man. He wanted his wife to join him on this new journey of self discovery via tripping on acid regularly. My friend, who barley drank and hadn’t smoked weed more than a handful of times in her life, wanted none of that. He also realized at Burning Man that at 56 years old, he was bisexual or pansexual and wanted to open up their marriage so he could explore that too. He wanted her to participate in three ways with him and another man. Again not going to happen. My friend would not compromise on this so he filed for divorce. One weekend led to all of this. So dumb.

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    Don't listen to me
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mid-life crisis. There must be more to life than this boring existence, please!

    Min
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When you drop acid during your midlife crisis...

    Alexandra
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not uncommon. Using d***s and acid harms the brains and can make you act irrational.

    Brian Droste
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would not say this is a minor reason to get a divorce. It is a major reason to get a divorce.

    Earonn -
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    3 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sounds as if it was less the weekend and more a combination of midlife crisis and being a selfish pr/ck

    Crystalwitch60
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He went down the shaman road didn’t he , the journey of self discovery , finding your spirit animal seeing who you really are , does not make him mental or the likes, those can change people ,sometimes for the better sometimes for the worst ,depends on the person doing it , we have a burning man festival here in uk, if there wasn’t so many bloody people there ,I’d love to go n try that , there is a name for the journey you take ,but I can’t recall it grr ,

    Huddo's sister
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My stepdad did the opposite! Both his ex-wife and he had been doing d***s together their whole marriage, but he gave up sometime after they had kids and she didn't want to. He is still d**g free and she smokes weed daily and is chronically ill.

    Surgichick
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had a midlife crisis once...I cut my hair

    Mimi M
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    https://www.google.com/search?q=burning+man+divorces

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    #16

    Couple reviewing documents at home, discussing bizarre reasons for divorce while sitting near laptop and coffee cups. I heard about a couple who got divorced because dual income would hurt their son’s chances for financial aid for college.

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    #17

    Man in casual clothes eating breakfast while checking phone, illustrating bizarre reasons why someone wanted a divorce concept. I broke up with my ex of 5+ years because he kept eating my yogurt.
    There were other reasons, but that was the final straw that made me realize he would never respect me.

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    Alexandra
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This seems to be the case with may divorces: things build up through time and then, one day, something that's small in isolation but very meaningful in the context of the whole marriage, happens and then it's as if a switch is flipped....

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    #18

    45 Of The Dumbest And Weirdest Reasons That Pushed People To Get A Divorce She was raised fairly casual Presbyterian. He was raised some wacky strict ultra-orthodox Lutheran sect church. She had to join his church. It was more like a cult. Very anti-Semitic. Pushing white supermacist. She noped out and divorced after two years because the preacher kept bugging her why she hadn't borne any children yet. Like every month, bugging her. .

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    Alexandra
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We have a saying that when two religions share one pillow, the devil sleeps between them....

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    #19

    45 Of The Dumbest And Weirdest Reasons That Pushed People To Get A Divorce Once upon a time, a friend of mine married this dude she had just met on a total whim. They were perfect for each other, and I mean that. They were a true testament to "Love at first sight." They stayed married for about three years, then out of the blue this guy flipped like a light switch. He brings her divorce papers and demands she sign them, with consent to take everything from him including the house and car, then vanished without a trace.

    Guy shows back up two months later. He's extremely paranoid and tells me that he came back to say his final farewell to someone who didn't exist... Supposedly a friend we've had in our group this entire time and not one of us knew who he was talking about. We tried to convince him to admit himself to the hospital because he was very clearly having a mental breakdown, but he ended up bolting. No one could find him, including police.

    A few of us in the friend group tried to look him up via social media accounts and his phone number. His name didn't exist. Friend who married him had his social. It wasn't legitimate [anymore?]. ALL of his information was either forged or had been erased. We have no idea what happened to him, where he is, or how he's doing, but I still think about that situation from time-to-time.

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    Bonesko
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dude's on the run. Clue's are in the stuff he made his ex wife take in the divorce.

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    #20

    Couple wearing aprons standing back to back in kitchen, showing frustration and relationship conflict about divorce reasons. A fair few of these sound like the straw that broke the camel's back. I left my wife when she yelled at me for cooking the last of the broccoli for dinner and not texting her to buy more. In reality, I was sick of her laziness and disrespect after 22 years.

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    Al Fun
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I left my wife when she yelled at me for the third time because of buying the wrong coffee.

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    #21

    Woman watching tarot cards during a reading while discussing bizarre reasons for someone wanting a divorce. Friend’s wife went to a psychic who said she should divorce her husband. So she did.

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    #22

    45 Of The Dumbest And Weirdest Reasons That Pushed People To Get A Divorce They'd been married 19 years and she did everything. She was the main breadwinner, paid all the bills, did all the housework, cooked every meal. He had it *good*. He was over 500lbs of basically dead weight but she loved him so much she didn't mind. Then he had the nerve to ask for an open marriage. She decided to allow it. He started dating me and her and I got along great.

    The issue is I'm not that type of woman. I don't wait on people. He's a grown man ffs. Then he started helping me with stuff I'd do at their house like making dinner. She watched him be a whole boyfriend to me, court me and help me. He hadnt done that stuff for her in years. We both dumped him at the same time realizing we both likely deserved better. I swear I saw her fall out of love with him over that salad, though.

    TLDR: Her husband helped me make a salad then helped me load the dishwasher. I saw it happen in her eyes as she watched. It wasn't the only thing but that straw definitely broke the camels back.

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    Rafael
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dude is a couch potato and still got two girls AT THE SAME TIME. Say anything about him, but Speechcraft = 100!

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    #23

    45 Of The Dumbest And Weirdest Reasons That Pushed People To Get A Divorce Not married, but an ex walked out on me six weeks after a knee reconstruction. Said she quote “Couldn’t handle living with a c*****e.”

    It wasn’t like I was in a wheelchair, unable to wash myself, feed myself, cook or wipe my own a**e.

    Sure I occasionally needed help getting dressed when I was in pain and couldn’t bend my knee much because of the brace I was in.

    Karmas a b***h, after we split and I’d healed up I f****d off to Europe, came back to Oz, spotted her in a local shopping centre, she’d put on some weight and had three kids under five.

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    Rose the Cook
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Woman I once worked with had a sick husband. Everything she said began with, "When Fred dies I will do such and such." I don't remember what was wrong with Fred (not his real name) but some new treatment came along that meant he improved greatly. Meanwhile she damaged her back Limbo dancing (yes really) and spent the rest of her life in wheelchair.

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    #24

    45 Of The Dumbest And Weirdest Reasons That Pushed People To Get A Divorce I used to be in a local Twilight club when I was 14. A 40something year old lady read her daughter's Twilight and New Moon, decided her husband is NOT a Cullen and got a divorce, including Twilight quotes. She would call herself a "Cullen B***h".

    I told my mom and she told me not to go to that local book club again.

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    Ace
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I understand every word of this, including the censored one, but still have not a clue what it's supposed to be telling me.

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    #25

    Person gaming on a desktop computer with headset in a dimly lit room, illustrating bizarre reasons for divorce. Husband would not stop playing WoW. Evenings, weekends, their anniversary, both their birthdays. Endless.

    Edit: I'm apparently completely clueless as to how many relationships this (and other) games have destroyed. For many years I was a professional videogame reviewer for one of the largest sites on the web, and I had never seen anything like this until this couple I knew split up.

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    Rafael
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is not a stupid reason to divorce someone, just a stupid reason to get divorced FROM, if this makes any sense

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    #26

    45 Of The Dumbest And Weirdest Reasons That Pushed People To Get A Divorce A 10 year relationship ended over a puppy pee pad.

    The two people lived together and they had always been volatile in our friend group, both were awesome people but he often got unusually hateful towards her when he was drinking or out with the boys. We’d be cleaning up after a BBQ and she would be tired and ask him if they could go home, and he would scream at her saying he wasn’t ready yet and say she was such a b***h for demanding so much of him. She would be visible upset and ask him not to speak to her like that particularly in front of people (that broke my heart) and he would say these were his friends and they have a right to see this because he was just being himself. We’d have to pull her aside to tell her he shouldn’t speak to her that way.

    After the got a second dog, if all fell apart for them it seems, the guy wasn’t doing much but bragging on the chat that she was doing all of the work like sleeping on the couch next to the puppy’s enclosure so it didn’t wake him (it was his idea for the puppy). He worked full time WFH (played games with us but had been on for hours at that point) and she was always on work trips or in the office.

    One morning the chat gets blasted from him saying she said she was done because he hadn’t changed the pee pads while he was WFH and she was working in the office and he couldn’t comprehend how “she left me over a single effing pee pad”.

    Dude still complains to this day how petty she was :/.

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    Katharina Sei.
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would never call someone who gets that hateful towards his partner awesome. Maybe someone should have hinted this dude that it wasn't just about the pee pads and that he was quite an awful person to her.

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    #27

    45 Of The Dumbest And Weirdest Reasons That Pushed People To Get A Divorce There were other reasons too, but what ultimately made me leave my ex-wife was realizing that she was completely opposed to anything that made me happy. Anything I liked was stupid, anything I wanted was stupid and out of the question. The day I realized it was over, we were shopping for a new car for me. Budget was $100k or less. We were on a lot with a bunch of cars and I wanted to go look at a Porsche SUV that was well below the budget and she told me I "need to pull my head out of my a*s". I was like, you're right, I do.

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    #28

    45 Of The Dumbest And Weirdest Reasons That Pushed People To Get A Divorce I've posted this before, but it's a goody so here it is again:

    A friend of a friend once told me how his marriage ended after one night.

    Wedding day. Everything goes perfect.
    They wake up the next morning and the following conversation takes place.

    Her: "So what do you want to do today?"

    Him: "Oh after yesterday I'm looking forward to doing nothing to be honest. Just chilling if you know what I mean?"

    Her: "Well I don't want to do nothing. If that's how this is going to be I think we've made a mistake here."

    Boom. Marriage over there and then.

    As a side note he then went down to the hotel bar where he found the singer from Jamiroquai, Jay Kay who noticed he was down and asked what was wrong. Long story short Jay Kay got him plastered over the next few hours as they hung out together to help him get over it.

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    amy lee
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    3 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Jay Kay would be at a fantasy dinner party dinning next to the queen, they'd have fascinating conversations.

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    #29

    Group of friends clinking glasses in a dimly lit bar, smiling and enjoying a casual night out, divorce reasons theme. A girl I know got drunk at a party, went to use the bathroom, forgot to take her underwear off and wet it. So she decided to throw it away and forgot all about it. Her husband made his own conclusion and thought she cheated on him and left her.

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    Bi.Felicia
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sounds like she dodged a bullet anyway. The ex-husband was likely cheating on her and used this situation as his out, making her look like the bad guy. If my girl came home completely drunk and was missing her underwear, I would be more concerned that something may have happened to her and would want to make sure she was okay.

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    #30

    45 Of The Dumbest And Weirdest Reasons That Pushed People To Get A Divorce My mom divorced one of the only decent dudes she dated because he asked her to pay the wedding ring payment during the month of his daughter's birthday because he was short on cash.

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    Ace
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wedding ring payment? He'd bough her wedding ring on finance? Please tell me that's not considered normal?

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    #31

    Two women on a bed, one comforting the other, illustrating emotional support in divorce for stupid and bizarre reasons. My mums best friend was dumped by her girlfriend of 7 years because she suddenly realised that she couldn't date a Gemini.

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    HF
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "we can't date because Uranus is out of alignment"

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    #32

    Man sitting by washing machine smelling clothes, illustrating bizarre reasons why someone wanted a divorce concept. Her husband wouldn't stop hanging his underwear on the doorknob.

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    #33

    Fluffy dog lying on a white bed with blankets, symbolizing bizarre reasons why someone wanted a divorce. Had a friend who divorced her 5th(?) husband because he kicked her dog out of bed. True story.

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    Cee Cee
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Can't honestly say that I blame her.

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    #34

    Woman brushing teeth in front of a mirror, reflecting on strange and bizarre reasons for divorce decisions. I used to know someone who's husband divorced her for brushing her teeth at the kitchen sink, once. She was in a rush for work and left it at the kitchen sink. He came home first and found her toothbrush. That was apparently too much for him to handle. IIRC, he was severely OCD and couldn't handle any clutter or things out of place.

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    Alexandra
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This marriage was doomed from the start. Who goes through life with never, ever having something out of place at one time or another? I mean, people are in a hurry, they are tired and leave their coats on the sofa or kick their shoes off. Living with this person sounds exhausting.

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    #35

    Woman in casual wear examining medical implants with doctor in a clinical setting about bizarre reasons for divorce He convinced her to get breast implants then didn't like them.

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    OhnoI’vebeencensored
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Love the stock photo. “For me? You shouldn’t have!”

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    #36

    Guy I went to collage with his wife of 30 years (he was a older student) filed for divorce over him suddenly farting more. He changed his diet to get healthy and developed a inflamed gut. .

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    #37

    Small dog wrapped in white blanket held by person in brown sweater illustrating bizarre reasons for divorce cases She bought a fancy designer dog to lay in bed with her and it liked him more because he was active.

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    Al Fun
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Who divorced whom, and who got the doggo?

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    #38

    They were 19 year old virgins from super-conservative families. Had s*x ONCE on their wedding night and called it off because the s*x sucked.

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    Bonesko
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Of course the s*x sucked. They were teenagers and it was their first time.

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    #39

    He filed because she drank too much and 1 trip through rehab didn't work. You stick by your partner when they're struggling. I'm lucky he did though, because she is the most beautiful, giving, loving, kind, understanding, empathetic, talented woman I have ever had the pleasure of dating. If he had not filed for divorce, I wouldn't have found the love of my life.

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    Shark Lady
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    OP only had his wife's side of what happened. It's really difficult being with an a****t and even though she eventually did get sober, she could have put her previous husband through hell. Getting sober doesn't magically erase all the sh1t you did before, sometimes "sorry" isn't enough.

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    #40

    I have a friend whose ex just lost his mind one day. They’d been married over a decade. Came home, yanked her away from their son, threw her against a wall and told her to get out. Accused her of all sorts of insane things from cheating on him to d***ging his food?? It’s been years and he still thinks she did all those things. I guess he had some kind of psychotic break.

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    tresgatos72
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hope she and the kid got out safely.

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    #41

    Woman lying in bed asleep at night, illustrating themes of bizarre reasons why someone wanted a divorce. Not divorced, but a friend had a girl drop him because she dreamed that he cheated on her.

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    Mreoww
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Things are so crazy, this isn’t the first time I’ve heard of such a story.

    #42

    Man in a blue shirt working at a computer, reflecting on bizarre reasons why someone wanted a divorce in an office setting. This was back in the late 90's. I got a couple of old harddrives from the guy and I found a bunch of gay p**n on the drives. I talked to her about it but she didn't think it was a big deal, or didn't believe it, or thought he was just exploring or some such thing.

    They got married a few years later, and then divorced a few years after that because she came out as a lesbian.

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    #43

    Someone I’m close to had a male relation’s wife divorce him within 6 months because she thought she would just be treated like a princess all the time and not have to work or do housework and such. Those were her exact words she thought being married meant she got to be a princess. Crazy.

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    Pork Chop
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is the same woman that got married to the Dungeons and Dragons guy.

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    #44

    Man with beard and glasses eating pizza, holding a drink, illustrating bizarre reasons why someone wanted divorce. She said he 'chewed wrong'. Not loudly, not with his mouth open just… wrong. I still don’t know what that means, but apparently it was divorce-worthy.

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    #45

    Wife was sleeping with her daughters bf.

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    #46

    She was a Disney adult and he said that was just too weird for him. Meanwhile he played Dungeons and Dragons multiple times a week....

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    AtMostAFabulist
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They could split the difference and play D&D in Cinderella 's castle 🏰

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    #47

    I wasn't married, but a boyfriend LOVED milk. He drank it all the time....the problem was his breath smelled like milk when he kissed me and sometimes, it wasn't a good smell. I just got to where I could not stand to kiss him because of that smell. So, we broke up. He thinks it was because of the long distance(he was away at college). And I like milk...I just couldn't stand that smell.

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    #48

    Young woman wearing a sunhat and orange bikini, posing outdoors with palm trees, symbolizing bizarre reasons for divorce. My school friend ended up getting a divorce after discovering his wife was wearing a bikini in a photo a friend had tagged her in on Facebook, and I was just like… wow.

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    tori Ohno
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Were they middle eastern and she's supposed to always wear a burka?

    #49

    Man with mustache and wet hair sitting shirtless near a chain-link fence, illustrating bizarre reasons for divorce. Back when Tom Selleck was all the rage on TV.
    A woman divorced her husband because he didn't have enough chest hair.

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    Rafael
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And yet here we are today, where smooth all over is the paragon of male beauty. Come on, can't we have equilibrium? After all, we walking carpets deserve some love too....

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    #50

    Knew a couple who decided to get divorced while they were still on good terms. That was the stated reason. I’m sure there’s more to that story, but I was always confused by it. If you’re on good terms, maybe try to work things out?

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    kissmychakram
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe they had and still decided it wasn't going to work? That they now wanted fundamentally different things? This seems very sensible to me and not in the least bit dumb.

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    #51

    Husband wanted to celebrate holidays with traditions he grew up with. He was fine with new traditions or having his traditional Christmas, Easter, etc. on another day.
    Wife would not accept that at all. She had the audacity to suggest that maintaining his holiday traditions were disrespectful to her!
    She initiated divorce proceedings.

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    #52

    Knew a girl that had a husband that would spend a consistent number of days per week a 3 hour flight away. She had a rotation of guys she would entertain regularly during the time he was away. They divorced, presumably because she got caught, and she threw up the pikachu face, like she didn’t see it coming. That’s dumb to me.

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    Brian Droste
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Another one that is not a minor reason to get a divorce. This is a major reason to divorce.

    #53

    A friend of mine married a guy 20 years older than her. He was a truck driver, on the road 7 days then home 7 days. They were married for 6 weeks. Old b*****d came home and supposedly was mad that she was never at home waiting for him with a hot meal. Also was mad that she didn't have "good food" in the fridge. She was losing weight for him. Lost 50lbs for the wedding and was looking amazing. .

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    tori Ohno
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If he wanted a trad wife, idiot should have married one.

    #54

    Per him.... he didn't tell her that he flat out owned his condo - fully paid off - when they met. She thought she was giving him $$$ for the mortgage, but he was actually putting it towards bills. When she found out, she left him immediately. None of us are sure why they didn't have a conversation about it beforehand. None of us are sure why they didn't have this conversation after. None of us are sure this is why she actually left.

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    setsuriseikou
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So... maybe because he, well, lied to her or at least deliberately withheld important info from her? Maybe she wasn't absolutely sure he'd ever be honest with her?

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    #55

    Her family can't accept the fact that he quit his job as a resident doctor due to burnout and bullying, so she filed for divorce.

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    #56

    It was during a trip to the mountains, 3 couples & a single third (7th?)wheel in a cabin. Towards the end of the night, we were playing a card game like ring of fire & all tipsy or drunk. **One couple started having an argument over a hypothetical scenario of who would keep the pets if they broke up.** When it got kinda awkward, we all retired to bed & could hear them going at it into the night bickering. The next day they were kinda cold to each other, and we ended up splitting up guys & girls for a lot of the trip. The guy told us that was their first big fight. After the trip, we heard from another couple that they split up soon after returning.

    I have no idea who got the pets lol.

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    RAM31280
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Does this count as life imitating art? or hypothetical in this case in place of art.

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    #57

    Woman folding laundry at home with a frustrated expression, illustrating bizarre reasons why someone wanted a divorce. He wouldn't unscrunch his socks before tossing them in the laundry hamper.

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    Kristin
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Call me weird but this drives me crazy lol I absolutely hate when my husband and kids throw socks inside out in the hamper 🤷‍♀️ lol

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    #58

    Science teacher in a classroom conducting a lesson with students, illustrating complex chemical formulas on the chalkboard. A teacher I had in high school divorced his wife because she gave away his concert tickets. I’ve always wondered what kind of s**t show their marriage was if giving away concert tickets was the breaking point.

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    AtMostAFabulist
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It would depend on the concert. If it was Bieber, meh. If it was Pink Floyd, I could understand it.

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    #59

    She divorced him because he was "ugly while eating." Don't think that's what she told the court but she admitted that was the entire reason. When people asked she'd just lie and say he cheated.

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    #60

    Person kneeling with paint roller covered in yellow paint, illustrating bizarre reasons for divorce discussions. A friend of my sister's divorced her husband after he painted their living room yellow. Still no idea why he did that and why she freaked out so much.

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    AtMostAFabulist
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My sister painted her living room and dining room yellow. I could see why she freaked out.

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    #61

    She ate her peas one at a time.

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    Jeff Hunt
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dudley Do-Right was thrown out of the Mounties for eating peas with a knife. Eating peas is a delicate matter.

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    #62

    A breakup instead of a divorce, but...I knew a couple in the mid-to-late '80s who broke up over the Robyn Hitchcock song "Sometimes I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl". She thought it was sexist; he thought it was funny.

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    Earonn -
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Then it wasn't over the song but over their understanding of what is se/xist. And I get that. Had an ex, our relationship was probably on its last leg already, but he liked to recount the story of "the woman who tried to make a point by 'ra/ping' a guy and the guy, asked afterwards how it was, said "Well, at least I got se/x". My ex found that funny and proof that women couldn't ra/pe men. Apart from how horrible it is to make fun of or deny male ra/pe victims, it was his "hehe, nobody can get me" attitude that I hated. So, the next time he told that story, in front of several friends, I told him about how men get ra/ped by other men - and was a bit graphic about it. Then asked if he still found it funny. He said nothing, but that was the last nail in the coffin, I think. No regrets.

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    #63

    They appeared to have the perfect relationship while dating. Extremely loving and constantly cheerfully together. Had a wonderful wedding, bought a house and seemed really, really happy. She got pregnant and before the second trimester served him with divorce papers saying she didn't think he was going to be a good father because he'd been a****d and his father had been a****d.

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    Annabelle
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    3 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sounds like she could be a less-obvious type of a.buser, while her husband confided his painful past and it was used against him. I can see how she could project her husband's past onto their child, anytime the child has feelings/ thoughts/actions she can weaponize. She what, got a baby from him and then cut him out, exposing his past as her excuse, all while never intending to stay in the relationship? Whatever she is hiding, I feel bad for the husband and kid. Key words: "appeared" and "seemed." "Extremely" loving and "constantly" cheerful? Nah.

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    #64

    Had two sets of married friends that divorced to swap wives.

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    NoRestfortheQWERTY
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Read Australian/American novelist Jane Allison's memoir "The Sisters Antipodes" for her recounting of her story, which is essentially what is described above. The book is well-written and ultimately heartbreaking.

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    #65

    Knew someone who divorced her husband because he got a foot fungus and his toes went funky.

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    #66

    Not divorced but when we were teenagers my mate dumped his girlfriend (they’d been together about 8 months) because her toes were a weird shape.

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    #67

    Young couple having a tense meal together, illustrating bizarre reasons why someone wanted a divorce concept. A woman I know broke up with her fiancee because she didn't like how he picked out his vegetables!

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    #68

    I like to sleep with the window open
    And [she] keeps the window closed.

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    Olive
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Seems like this could have been solved with separate bedrooms.

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    #69

    Probably none of the above, but it was interesting to hear someone actually say it. I have a friend that was with her bf since she was 16, and then finally got married after almost 10 years of being together. Very awesome/expensive wedding and everything. We both started a new job and were carpooling one day when he called. She decided to answer it on speakerphone, and i just stayed quiet, but he said word for word "i thought getting married would change things" and i face palmed, because all my life i heard it doesn't, at least for the better. They divorced within 6 months of marrying.

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    Ace
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Useless with no hint of what it was he thought would change but hadn't.

    #70

    Guy I knew in college wound up divorced not too long after getting married because his wife heard some "I'm 13 and this is deep"-esque line on _The O C._ and realized she didn't feel the same way about her husband.

    Can't say I was too torn up for him, though; I met her once while they were engaged and she wasn't that pleasant to be around (he, on the other hand, was a pretty good dude).

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