40 Petty But Understandable Reasons That Led Married Couples To Divorce
Interview With ExpertNot all marriages are a match made in heaven, and many end in divorce. A lot of these separations stem from valid reasons like infidelity or irreconcilable differences. However, some are so absurd and petty that you may doubt their authenticity.
To see what I mean, here are some responses to this online thread with the question: “Lawyers of Reddit, what is the pettiest reason you’ve ever seen for divorce?”
A woman wanted out of her marriage because her husband smashed the wedding cake in her face during their reception. Another man filed for divorce after his wife ate the pumpkin Halloween candies he’d been looking forward to all day.
Some of these responses are laughable, while others may make you ask yourself, “What did I just read?” Nonetheless, enjoy scrolling. You will also find our short chat with Emily Beven, an associate of Stowe Family Law, who provided some insights on the topic.
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Not divorced, but annulled on their wedding day.
I've told the story a few times on Reddit, so long-story-short-time: She told him several hundred times that if he smashed the cake in her face at the reception, it was over.
He did it, she walked out and had it annulled the next day. This was over 30 years ago, btw.
Good for her, if he couldn't respect such a small boundary it wouldn't bode well for the future.
On what planet is "He assaulted me at our wedding reception" a petty or silly reason to get the marriage annulled?
There is always the good chance that he wanted to bail out of the wedding but lacked the character to tell her. So he took the parachute she had handed him
There's an even better chance that he was hammered and didn't GAF. If I had a nickel for every time I heard someone say "they'll get over it" I'd be parking my new car in the garage of my mansion.
Load More Replies...<I am joking, so don't get all panty-wadded.) If she had just killed she would probably be out of prison by now...
Since the woman repeated the warning many times beforehand, she must have anticipated it. It may be a wedding tradition of some kind in their culture. Like tossing the bridal bouquet.
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So I got married at 18 (same story as most, s****y home life, needed desperately to get out of the house so I married the first guy that came around) and stayed with him until I was 22. I was working one day and he didn't answer any of my texts or calls. Eventually I got an answer and I before I could even say Hey, his response was "what do you want, I'm playing Call of Duty". I left him a week later.
Most of time, the petty reasons are just the straw that breaks the back.
The thing is the petty reasons often show patterns of behaviour, or more serious issues like contempt, disrespect or indifference.
Not a lawyer, but my dad divorced my mom because she didn’t throw enough parties. Now he lives alone. He neither throws nor goes to parties. 🤷♀️.
"Entertain me and provide me with my entire social life. And do all the work of putting it together and cleaning up. "
That's, unfortunately, tye mindset of many men of a certain age.
Load More Replies...Introvert secret. If you can't be alone, being alone in a crowd is the next best thing. Parties are great places to hide from people.
No. This is exhausting. Other people's mere presence is exhausting. And I go on some weird type of autopilot in social gatherings where I'm extremely social. Sucks the life out of me. I think if you feel energized after a party maybe you're an extrovert who's just shy.
Load More Replies...Stowe Family Law is based in the UK, where Beven says people file for divorce for “unreasonable behavior.” Examples include a lack of work-life balance or “differing interests.”
“Some people even went as far as saying their spouse constantly disregarded instructions to wash up or put their laundry away,” Beven told Bored Panda. “Whilst to some, these may seem petty and insignificant, for those couples, this ‘petty’ behavior led to the breakdown of their marriage.”
Not a lawyer but this happened to my wife's cousin.
Her husband came home one day asking her to give a higher financial contribution on the groceries, because she, as a lady, was using more toilet paper than him. She took it as a joke and had a good laugh. He got mad, and asked for divorce.
Worth mentioning that his salary was 3 times higher than her one..
I was a student and my ex (4 years older) was working. I was at HIS house and we popped to the shop and he told me to pay for the toilet paper because I use more and he sh!ts at work. I wish I could go back to younger me then and rip him a new one
Oh honey don't we all. If only I'd known 40 years ago what I know now🤦
Load More Replies...I actually had a boyfriend that said I needed to bring toilet paper when I was over at his place because "girls use more". Needless to say, it didn't last long.
I had a roommate whose boyfriend was living with us for free. No rent. In NYC. Who thought we should split toilet paper. I'm sorry, you've brought an entire other person into this household. The least he can do is buy toilet paper and do some chores. It ended our friendship.
Load More Replies..."I'll cut down on toilet paper, honey. I'll use our wedding pictures instead."
I decided to divorce my first husband when he complained about me buying lunch at McDonald's. He had called me at my office, asked what my lunch plans were, and I said I was meeting my friend Keli at McDonald's. He started complaining about spending money for restaurant food and that I should have packed a lunch from home. We had just that past weekend bought him a new pair of ski boots that cost over $100. It was the final straw. I was unhappy about a few things, that I could have overlooked, but to be LECTURED about spending $6.00 on a burger and fries was just too much. I let him b***h for a few minutes, gently hung up the phone, walked into my manager's office to quit, went home and started packing.
Why’d she quit though? Was the job bad too and she just wanted to be finished with both of them?
OP quit her job so she could move back to where her family lived.
Load More Replies...And it was Mayor McCheese himself that had performed the wedding ceremony.
Load More Replies...One reason why I don't like joint finances. I don't care how married we are, it is none of your business what I eat for lunch since I am paying with my own money.
I am fanof each have a personsl and then a joint for joint expenses.
Load More Replies...This must of been a long time ago. Meal at Mc'D's is now $15. Adds up quick.
It's £6.39 in the UK for a medium Big Mac meal. Why's it so expensive if your staff have to rely on tips?
Load More Replies...I left my husband because he “nah babe, I got it” -ed me constantly but would never do it. Last straw was him letting our power go out in July when we had a heat wave and our (my) sick dog was stuck in the heat.
Good work telling him "Nah ex, I got it. Me and the dog got it, not you though."
I'm curious about just how he "let the power go out", did he not pay the bill? So many questions.
Didn't pay the bill or there was some sort of electrical problem that he said he'd take care of and didn't. I read this somewhere: "A true man keeps his promises. If he says he's gonna fix something, he's gonna fix it. There's no need to remind him every six months". I love it, fits my late dad perfectly. At any given time he had ~12 projects he was "working on", some of them going on for decades. Renovating the kitchen? Done in three months. Putting a new fish pond in the garden? Still "in progress" after 30 years when he passed.
Load More Replies...Some people may see divorce as an easy way out when the marriage enters a rough patch. Beven describes it as a “mechanism by which you change your circumstances.” That may include the “petty” reasons on this list.
However, going through a divorce is tedious in itself. For one, it can severely affect a person financially.
“Marriage combines assets, divorce separates those, often leaving both people worse off,” Beven pointed out.
Definitely the fridge Story!! A woman filed for divorce because her husband would eat everything he can find in their fridge whenever the wife was out for work. So she came back to an basically empty fridge each night.
He also cheated on her but she was less angry about that. The fridge was what pushed her to the point she wanted a divorce.
Actually I like the fridge. I want a smaller one but they all come with freezer on top
Load More Replies...I've never been married but if my dad did that to my mum the result wouldn't be divorce. It would be murder.
What a horrible man. She must have felt so insecure in her home, food security is so important and he stole it from her
Because food is expensive at this rate! Before I was divorced (and this was one of my signs), I knew if my husband cheated, I wouldn't care. But I got angry at him helping himself to all the food I bought because he neither paid for it (unemployed), or did any chores around the house.
Wife wanted divorce like 2 months into marriage because the husband would squeeze the toothpaste from the top and not bottom. She claims to have told him a millions times over to stop. Would have been easier to get 2 toothpastes i thought.
We did get separate toothpastes. Spouse always left the lid off and a huge crust of dried toothpaste around the top.
Yep, I cannot abide the way my wife squeezes the toothpaste so I have my own. Problem solved.
Load More Replies...Hey, at least they used toothpaste. Mine would just rinse his mouth out with water.
I had to do this with my last roommate (2 toothpastes(. She would squeeze from the top even when 3/4 of the tube was empty, she’d just pinch a glob of toothpaste from the bottom and slowly work it up to the too to squirt it out. Every time. For some reason it drove me absolutely insane, it seemed like a way less convenient way to use toothpaste 😂
She is either very controlling, or she needs some therapy. What most people would consider a minor irritation should not be grounds for divorce.
As someone said in another comment I have a feeling this wasn't the sole reason but the last straw.
Load More Replies...My hubby and I have separate toothpaste and separate blankets, works wonders for our relationship :)
Common sense would be doing the separate hygiene stuff. I keep EVERYTHING separate. Including a MRS ONLY bank account and credit cards. ( That started when my ex proved that he was irresponsible with money and spent waay too much and bills weren't getting paid) . If you keep things separate, you can't fight about squat.
I’m a lawyer but not that kind. However, my brother’s 4th wife divorced him because she found out the ring he’d used was originally his 3rd wife’s.
They deserved each other.
I'm wife number 5, and we're still happily married after nearly 21 years and together for 23.
Load More Replies...If you’re on your 4th wife, at what point do you say, “ hmmm.,,maybe it’s me???”
I'm waiting for that day to come for my ex husband, who married wife number 4 at the age of 35/36. I honestly don't think that day will ever come because heaven forbid he saw himself for the abusive, narcissistic waste of a human being that he truly is.
Load More Replies...Your brother has a problem! Don't blame the wives on this particular thread lol
As of this posting, divorce is illegal in only two countries: the Philippines and the Vatican. Both are heavily influenced by Catholicism and believe in upholding the sanctity of marriage.
But does illegal divorce help prevent people from breaking off from their marriage for the pettiest reasons? Beven says no.
“Divorce accounts for the ebbs and flows of life, and denying this can be dangerous in some cases,” she explained.
Not a lawyer, but I'd like to put forward my own mother's top reason for divorcing my father.
"Farts loudly in public".
I’m taking this to mean he does this on purpose and probably has other boorish habits. There’s only so much a person can endure from someone whose own habits made them completely undesirable.
Divorcing your husband because he takes joy in embarrassing you in public sounds like a valid reason. Can't imagine what he's like in private.
My ex would make a show of it and get up from the couch, lift his leg, and proudly, loudly fart. And I want to have sex with you why?
Load More Replies...I hate it when people do this because it's always on purpose. I imagine her worrying about him being an absolute twat every time they were in public, knowing he's doing on purpose! Say what you like, but I wouldn't put up with this idiot.
Did he pick his nose and eat his boogers, too? Both juvenile behaviors, best to partner with an adult.
Eeww! That's gross. If he did it constantly on purpose and took pleasure in embarrassing her by being a pig,I don't blame her.
I know a guy who was divorced because he said the wrong name at the altar.
Reminds me of Princess Diana getting Prince Charles names wrong at the wedding (but just wrong way around, not absentmindedly calling him Nigel or something)
My mom's reaction to that was, "I guess she wants to marry his Dad instead."
Load More Replies...If you can't get your wife to be's name right at that moment, you are a f******g idiot
So she married him anyway, then filed for divorce? Couldn't she have just left him at the altar?
My aunt used to work as a divorce lawyer. The worst one was a couple fighting over a hamster (of which took so long the thing died before they were settled). She said it was a bargaining chip to win favor from their children. At that rate just buy another hamster!
Oh, for sure. Hate it when innocent animals are dragged into humans being silly.
Load More Replies...Doubtful, more like sticking it to the other person. Divorces bring out the worst in everyone.
Load More Replies...As Beven explains, domestic violence is an example of a situation where an individual’s life may be put in danger if divorce is illegal. The mounting tensions in an unhappy marriage may also have a severe negative impact on the children.
“Serious injury, both physical, mental and financial, can ensure and there may be a real risk to life,” she said.
Not a lawyer but my uncle once divorced a woman because she got a surgery and he felt she was being too wimpy about it.
Either he's a a55hole or, he's a a55hole and wanted some sort of reason to divorce her.
Load More Replies...I was in hospital a week with gangrene in both hands--he went to the coast. Then I had a heart attack, triple bypass & a stroke. After an 8 month recovery, he made me go back to work where I had to relearn all my skills (his self employment covered his drinking & affairs but not the bills). After I supported him for 6 more years, he told me to move out because I just "wasn't the same person."
You're well rid of him, and I'm sorry you had to go through all of all that.
Load More Replies...There could be more to it than that. I work in the medical field and we did a minor surgery on my then BF. I had him all set up with food he could eat, ice packs, wrote out the times for his pain meds/antibiotics and made sure he understood his post-op instructions. I had to work the next day, I texted him a few times throughout the day and called him on my way home to see if he needed anything, he said he didn't. So I get home and he had literally laid in bed the entire day, he hadn't taken any meds, hadn't ate or drank a single thing and didn't ice, so he was obviously feeling terrible at that point. The kicker was he was fuming mad at me because I had worked that day instead of taking care of him. I told him next time he needed surgery he was staying with his mommy.
Let's stomp on his toes and see his reaction. And how long it takes him to stop complaining.
If the wife was like my mom, I can actually understand this. If she got a papercut, she'd act like her arm was falling off and expect everyone to rush to do everything for her. (Yes, this lady had surgery, but it doesn't say what kind. Mole removal could be called "surgery".)
The husband kept putting wet/used towel on their bed.
Uncomfortable for him for sure, however if the bed starts to get mildew it's going to affect the wife as well.
Load More Replies...This is not a petty reason. I had a boyfriend that did this and it used to drive me mad, along with leaving his clothes where they were dropped when he got undressed. The last straw was when I got a black eye tripping over his jeans when I went for a pee in the middle of the night and going face first into the door frame. Living with a 20 year old guy who had never lived on his own before made me feel more like a parent than a partner.
Unfortunately ADHD causes messiness like this too. The meds ideally wear off in time for bed. But then my 7 y/o takes clothes off and leaves them exactly where he took them off. Unless I tell him to move them. Then he shoves them in a corner, or under the dresser, or behind a fan. I make him get out of bed and put them away properly every time. Yet his brain somehow thinks shoving them behind the toilet will be less work than just tossing them in the hamper in the first place. I fear for any future partner.
Load More Replies...I wfh. My wife and kid shower every morning. I an left with towels everywhere a dripping wet bathroom floor, two breakfast to be cleaned.... I would love to be able to go to the office. I have filed to divorce from my kid and i will give my wife in adoption in June definitely, june.
I once had clients who got a divorce because she wanted to buy a condo in Naples, Fl. The petty part of the story is that combined their lawyer fees would have bought a very nice condo on the water in Naples.
A condo in Naple is something you only use in the winter. But a divorce is something you'll always have.
Lots of Neapolitans are year rounders, we are and most of our neighbors are as well.
Load More Replies...This probably wasn't a money thing and more of a OH GOD NOT FLORIDA thing.
Ultimately, divorce is an exercise of free will. People may make mistakes when they marry the person they thought was the one for them, but having the option to break it off within a year legally allows them to correct that.
“In a society that promotes autonomy and free will, allowing people to marry and divorce whom and when they want, we are allowing individuals to pursue happiness,” Beven said.
A woman came in wanting to divorce her husband. He had just gotten a new job and a pretty big raise.
It turned out that this new job of his also required that he work from home but he was working in an office before. She was having an affair with their next-door neighbor and him being home more meant that she couldn't cheat on her husband easily.
That was definitely a twist. I was expecting something like him being the one having the affair but nope!
I initially thought that she had filed for divorce, shortly after the husband's big promotion and pay raise, so she could get more money out of it. Which is wrong in itself but lazy ho was cheating with the neighbor.
Not a lawyer but a child of divorced parents, my parents divorced because my mum refused to fuel his smoking addiction that he didn’t pay for.
My ex-husband got mad at me for this. "You haven't supported my habits in years." Of course not, when money gets tight, habits are usually the first thing I'll sacrifice in order to pay bills. It was the other way around for him.
The weirdest I've ever seen is a coworker of mine. His wife saw a picture of him at a pool when he was in high school and really athletic. Toned, muscular, tan and so on. Over the 10 year after high school he stopped lifting and lost his muscle tone and just became skinny.
She told him she wanted him to get back to working out because she really liked the way he once looked and he said it was something he missed doing and agreed to get a gym membership. He was going to the gym four days a week but was only really working out for two of them. On the days he didn't work out he would sit in the sauna to get sweaty, watch Netflix and then go home.
When she asked about him going to the gym and accidentally let it slip that he was fudging workouts twice a week. She apparently found that to be a deal breaker and filed for divorce.
So... she loved him and how he looked enough to marry him, but the second she saw a photo of him back when he was more fit/buff, she wanted him to look that way? That photo isn't even of the man she married, so to speak. As an aside, my ex used to push me to exercise and get into shape because my body disgusted him. I was stupid and I stayed, but eventually started lying about my workouts (I HATE exercise.) Please don't try to force your fitness habits/preferences onto others - that will only cause resentment and misery.
I know someone who didn't like her hunky husband going to the gym because she thought he was parading his body for the women there. But, no, he wasn't parading it for the women there at all. They were still married when he died, so I assume she never figured it out.
She wanted him to look like he did in High School??? Red flag for sure!
Shallow much? My man isn't exactly in shape but I love him. That woman is an idiot.
I'd be OK with someone intelligent and mildly sane. Very few out there at this age. Or maybe I'm too picky about that whole "sane" thing.
Load More Replies...A client and his wife came in regarding a real estate transaction. At the end of the consultation, the client casually stated that he would like to divorce his wife. I was stunned, the wife started crying, the client started rubbing his wife's shoulder and told her that everything would be okay. That was an awkward few minutes.
Well, he was getting charged for the full hour, and they still had 35 minutes left. Why waste it?
Load More Replies...Well, getting this jerk out of your life would be the first step to being okay.
Not me, but a family member (who is an attorney) had someone call her Day 4 of the lock downs saying "I have been stuck with my wife for 4 days, and I need a divorce".
Had at least 3 such cases in my immediate social circle. Lockdown struck hard on many couples.
I have a feeling lock downs were the cause of quite a number of divorces and breakups
I read that in China, where the lock down was HARSH!, there was many many couples who ran directly to a divorce lawyer when they came out of lock down. Lol. Imagine being on day 2 (or whatever) of the lock down and realising that your spouse is driving you nuts and you can't stand them. But you need to stay with them for months. Must be horrible.
Not a lawyer, but I'd have to say my divorce was kinda petty. She decided a year and a half after she kicked me out she should divorce me because I didn't come crawling back to her. Funny as she realized too late that when she kicked me out, she didn't have any income.
Sorry! You don't wait that long for someone to come crawling back. And the money situation? She would have known about before this happened! Or well before the year and a half. This post is stupid!
Not a lawyer, but I figure my divorce attorney thought my ex-wife's reason was pretty petty: "he refuses to get rid of his cat and the dog we adopted together".
Me or the dog isn't really a question, and I don't even have a dog 😉
Grocery costs, literally thought it was a joke or code for something. Turned out she came from a tight budget family and thought he was so wasteful with his paycheck when he bought ribs once a month.
You're right, but in this case I think there are bigger issues than different spending styles.
Load More Replies...Ribs are always on sale here. But how petty. Let your partner have a little luxury that makes them happy. It's well worth the price of ribs once a month. She sounds miserable.
Not a lawyer, but my mom's coworker divorced over dishes in the dishwasher. The wife would get so frustrated over the husband (coworker) not rinsing dishes before he loads them in the dishwasher. To compromise, they bought a super nice, top-of-the-line dishwasher. Solves the problem, right? She yelled about the dishes that night. He filed for divorce the next day
Rinsing dishes before putting them in the dishwasher can stop the dish detergent from working as well as it should.
We only run our dishwasher once a week so we rinse the dishes off, cuz no matter which detergent we buy, stuff bakes on the dishes if not rinsed off.
Load More Replies...Rinsing dishes before putting them in the dishwasher is just a waste of time and water, since it rinses them when it starts.
I hate dishwashers bc to me they always stink. You have to get in there and pull them apart at regular intervals to clean the trap. Stuff gets baked on if you leave it there. It melts all the cool cups. I'd rather just wash it by hand and use the dishwasher as a huge drying rack.
I've had 4 diswashers and none of them stank. At all. Of course you have to clean the trap every once in a while. You have to maintain your stuff, that's normal. You clean your toilet, don't you? Don't put your cool cups in a dishwasher if they're not marked 'dishwasher' safe. None of the above is on the poor dishwasher: learn about your appliances.
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My client’s wife asked for a divorce after he refused to pay $52,000 per semester for their daughter to go to the private highschool the wife had gone to as a child.
Maybe depends on the income...?Like, if he makes millions it would be petty of him not to pay for private school, but if not...sheesh
He can also think that it's not a good school for her, dad's also have a say in their daughters/sons education
Load More Replies...$156,000 a year? Even Eton and Harrow are a fraction of that for full board!
NAL but I know someone who claims she divorced her husband because he wouldn't quit smoking (he smoked before they were married). Turned out she was cheating.
The lies and hoops that some people choose to jump through instead of facing the truth head on, says a lot about one's character, IMHO. If you're no longer in love with your spouse and feel the need to sleep with someone else, please just let your spouse know or file for divorce/separation, before doing so.
Some people get off on the thrill of getting away with it, that's why they cheat. Agree with your point though.
Load More Replies...It’s been used on Reddit for a very long. Shortened from INAL (I’m not a lawyer).
Load More Replies...A man wanted a divorce from his wife because — and he gave this example as the "last straw" — his wife ate those nasty pumpkin Halloween candies, like candy corn but pumpkin-shaped. He had been looking forward to them all day, and when he got home, she had eaten them all. He snapped
He didn't know how to just go buy more of that nasty candy.
Load More Replies...Were there peanuts to go with them? If my partner ate the candy AND the peanuts, it'd be over!
Did they discuss the pumpkin candy? Maybe separate it up into his and hers? Did she even know of his candy preference? This happened to me several times in our marriage.
My dad listed that my mom alluded to him being a homosexual as one of his reasons for divorce and considering he’s a far right wing homophobic church fanatic….And it was the year 2019 … I just loved that being a reason on legal paperwork just soooo much.
My dad was a lawyer, not me. He once told me that a divorce came in because the wife would just scream at the top of her lungs randomly.
I'm going to guess it wasn't random, but he didn't want to work through the issues she was raising.
Not enough context. Could be frustration, anger, pain (emotional, physical). But at a guess this communication method only has a one off shock value.
If it was genuinely random, it could very well be Tourette's. Swearing is the classic symptom, but so are involuntary random noises and facial or muscular twitches. If the wife doesn't know she has it (no formal diagnosis) then it could be bothering both of them.
Swearing is actually one of the least common symptoms; it’s the most noticeable sign, and movies treat it as if that is all there is to Tourette’s.
Load More Replies...She hated his cat... which he had before they got married. Ended up costing them more than $20,000 in fees because they were both petty over the cat.
Cats are evil little demons from the netherworld. Do NOT tell my spoiled-brat cats I said that. Lol
Load More Replies...People can (and do) hate cats. But you don't marry someone when you hate his/her pets or kids. That's a recipe for disaster.
Not a lawyer, paralegal. Someone came in for a divorce because their soon to be ex changed the password on their phone. Plaintiff had always had the code to get in, but now they didn't. Divorce time.
Not a lawyer- but apparently my brother divorced his wife when McDonald’s forgot to put bbq sauce in with her chicken nuggets at the drive through and she asked him to go back and get some. He didn’t and then I guess she started smashing up food and throwing it at him/out the window….. so yeah…. McDonalds how could you ruin a marriage 😅…….
They both sound like jerks. Her more than him, but it's pretty rude not to go back for the sauce. Unless they lived 45 minutes away and we just pulling into the driveway, there's no reason why he couldn't have gone back. But she sounds unhinged.
Maybe he was tired, or it was late, or there was a lot of traffic on the road, or the weather conditions were bad… Some people also don’t feel comfortable complaining about something so small. McDonald’s is only a 10 minute drive from where I live, but neither my husband nor I would ever even consider going back over a missing sauce package.
Load More Replies... Friend’s wife is a marriage counselor. She had this couple coming in trying to work things out before a divorce. The husband went non-stop on why he wanted the divorce. She said two incidents really stuck with her. The first was the husband was doing some yard work and asked the wife to carry some twigs he trimmed from some bushes.
He grabs a huge stack and lugs them over the the pile he was going to mulch. Wife just grabs a couple of sticks. He asked if she could carry more than that and she picked up a couple of more sticks. She said the husband emphasized the word “couple”!
The second was the wife told her husband that they had finally gotten to a point in finances where they could buy a new vehicle. The husband said he was excited and sat down with his wife to price vehicles. The husband said every one he showed her was out of their budget. He became extremely frustrated and asked what the budget was. She replied $2,000. That was the tipping point for the divorce!
She said "new vehicle." She said budget is $2k. He divorced her because she is a moron.
Well if she just said "vehicle" maybe she was talking about a bicycle? :)
Not a lawyer but my neighbors got divorced because one wanted a dog so badly and the other one refused to even considerate it.
Maybe the person who wanted the dog would be incapable of taking care of it and neglect it, perhaps their spouse knew this and kept telling them no because the spouse knew they'd be dumped with the responsibility. I've been with 2 guys who did this, desperately wanted a dog, then when they got one they got bored with it like an xmas gift and stopped taking care of it, feeding it, letting it out to pee. My ex used to let the dog pee all over the house and leave me to clean it up, refused to train the dog or walk it daily. Eventually I cracked and had to drop the poor dog off at the animal shelter, the urine in the house was giving us both migraines despite me carpet cleaning almost daily. (Don't worry, doggo went to live on a ranch and is being taken care of far better than my ex did).
Yeah, the ranch. The same ranch that no longer wanted pet bunnies go to.
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I had a client who with his wife were into a computer game like the Sims only more x rated, I think it was called Second Life, where you have an avatar and can interact with other people's avatars. He suspected his wife of, through her avatar, hijinks and made his own avatar to stalk her in the game. Sure enough her avatar was doing the dirty with some dude's avatar. That was it for my client.
I personally have never seen or played the game, Second Life but what I do know about it, is that you can interact and message other avatars in the game. So I think this would be considered more of an emotional affair, because you are talking with real people, irl but you are seen as the avatar you create for yourself. These avatars could be very close to what these people look like IRL or the complete opposite, but the communication and interactions in the game are with other people.
Load More Replies...This kind of makes me think of a story a saw a while ago about a couple, I can't remember where in Europe, who were both talking to people on chatrooms, looking to cheat, and when they met up with those people, they discovered that they were actually talking to each other.
Pam Anderson and Kid Rock simply put ‘Borat’ as the reason for their divorce. I’d say thats gotta be up there.
If he'd seen her movies, you can hardly blame him.
Load More Replies...He decided she was too flirty with Sasha Baron Cohen while being basically kidnapped/stalked in the film. At the premier, Kid Rock called her a wh*re and there was no saving the relationship after that.
Load More Replies...I worked for the judge that married them- in a bar in Nashville. He said that marriage won’t last long
They only got married about 17 times (obviously an exaggeration) so you could conclude that SOMETHING was off.
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Not a lawyer, but one of my philosophy professors (now ex-professor) and his wife got a divorce because he tried to exorcise her. The Christian school didn’t take it well and he is no longer a professor there. Well, actually, the couple was getting a divorce due to the wife having a year-long affair with a professor of the rival school across the street. The attempted exorcism didn’t help matters, though.
Edit: Since several people seem interested, the exorcism didn’t work, according to said professor. The couple got a divorce, the professor got some custody of the kids, got screwed in the money matters, and now his ex-wife and kids are moving to Ohio (I guess the thing with the rival school’s professor didn’t work out for the ex-wife?) while his oldest daughter is preparing to go to the school he used to teach at this fall. Poor girl has to pay her way now, when she planned for most of her life on going for free.
The whole story was pretty big for a while at school. The professor went to jail illegally for like a month without any accusation against him because he answered a phone call from one of his super young daughters. His wife had filed a protection order for herself, not the children, and the campus police took him away, even though he didn’t answer the call on campus. It was a whole scandal and the school was involved way more than it legally should have been. Super weird stuff. According to this professor, the president of the school was demon-possessed and that accounted for the whole thing. It gave a portion of the student body something to covertly argue over for a couple weeks.
I feel certain someone could turn that into a successful comedy-drama movie but set in somewhere like Italy or France
Early in my freshman year at Stanford members of the "West Coast Aristotelian Society" were arrested for being drunk and disorderly at one of their meetings.
Not a lawyer but I heard some gossip from my neighbors that apparently one of their relatives couldn’t stand their wife’s cold feet at night, and it got so bad that they each took turns sleeping on the sofa.
The couple couldn’t afford a bigger space and held it off for so long because of fear of ruining their reputation. Now they’re divorced and looking for people with tolerable body temperatures 😬.
If they don't have a spare bedroom, they should at least have separate beds and if 2 can't fit into the same room, because of the size of the shared bed they would need to downsize to smaller individual beds.
Load More Replies...My lovely wife is somehow always cold yet she's a furnace at night time. Not so bad in the winter but we live in *shudders* Florida.
I know a guy who divorced his wife bc she refused to learn to cook a certain fish dish his mom used to cook lol.
Not if his mother has passed on.
Load More Replies...It wouldn't hurt to learn the dish. If you hate it, then you can compromise on how often to have it. Of course he could've also learned how to make the dish. But sometimes you just need someone to bring you hot soup.
You shouldn't be allowed to post something like this without including the recipe in question.
According to op it's Chraymae, which is a Moroccan traditional dish.
Load More Replies...Well My cousins dad is a lawyer and he once saw a couple divorce after 12 years because "he smells".
And how is that petty? If he refuses to do anything about the smell, should she just bear it?
Maybe he was coming down with something. Like cancer. Or that woman who can smell Parkinson's, who smelled it when her partner started to get it. I smell schizophrenia sometimes. It's an unwashed body. But not like normal body odor. There's something off about it I can't describe. It's more musty. Part of why I do telehealth now.
What I'm taking away is that most divorces are caused by built-up resentments and poor communication. And people will use the flimsiset of excuses to cover cheating.
The title (about red neck engineering) and thread (silliest reasons for divorce) do mot match.
Don't know what's going on here... Maybe they copy-pasted the wrong title? Screenshot...0e7efa.png
Had a friend whose hubby of three months divorced her. She refused to wear heels, dresses, and pearls 24/7. We decided he was looking for June Cleaver.
He didn't want a wife, he wanted a trophy, another piece of furniture in the play of his existence. These men are garbage and will never love anything more than themselves.
Load More Replies...Some of the stories on the list are shitee and could easily be resolved by measures far less extreme than divorce.
The reason given will just be the tip of the iceberg, you can be sure.
Load More Replies...Marriage is hard work. Not everyone wants to do the weekly, sometimes daily, sit down and talk it out. But that is really what it takes to make it work. Also bboth people have to respect each other's feelings and needs. If one person doesn't take the other's concerns seriously, then it will never work.
I've been married for more than 30 years and what you describe looks exhausting to me, lol. Daily/weekly sit downs? When I get back from work all I want to do is put my feet up; I've been having sidtdowns at my job the whole day long, so I don't want to do that at home as well. Also, if it such hard work, I'm not sure you should be together. There should be, at least, some level of mutual silent understanding? On the other hand, different things work for different people.
Load More Replies...I'm so excited my broken heart has been restored. My man is back after he left me for another woman. I was so happy to meet Dr Williams and how he helped many people to bring back their happiness so I contacted him to help me too. That was how he helped me to bring back my man.. A big Thanks to you because I never thought my man would be back to me so quickly. You are such a nice man, I drop his contact below 👇 (WhatsApp +2348136785562) via email (highpriest422@gmail.com).
Mine folds up damp towels, They will dry eventually. A month later, why is there mildew and mold on the towels?
What I'm taking away is that most divorces are caused by built-up resentments and poor communication. And people will use the flimsiset of excuses to cover cheating.
The title (about red neck engineering) and thread (silliest reasons for divorce) do mot match.
Don't know what's going on here... Maybe they copy-pasted the wrong title? Screenshot...0e7efa.png
Had a friend whose hubby of three months divorced her. She refused to wear heels, dresses, and pearls 24/7. We decided he was looking for June Cleaver.
He didn't want a wife, he wanted a trophy, another piece of furniture in the play of his existence. These men are garbage and will never love anything more than themselves.
Load More Replies...Some of the stories on the list are shitee and could easily be resolved by measures far less extreme than divorce.
The reason given will just be the tip of the iceberg, you can be sure.
Load More Replies...Marriage is hard work. Not everyone wants to do the weekly, sometimes daily, sit down and talk it out. But that is really what it takes to make it work. Also bboth people have to respect each other's feelings and needs. If one person doesn't take the other's concerns seriously, then it will never work.
I've been married for more than 30 years and what you describe looks exhausting to me, lol. Daily/weekly sit downs? When I get back from work all I want to do is put my feet up; I've been having sidtdowns at my job the whole day long, so I don't want to do that at home as well. Also, if it such hard work, I'm not sure you should be together. There should be, at least, some level of mutual silent understanding? On the other hand, different things work for different people.
Load More Replies...I'm so excited my broken heart has been restored. My man is back after he left me for another woman. I was so happy to meet Dr Williams and how he helped many people to bring back their happiness so I contacted him to help me too. That was how he helped me to bring back my man.. A big Thanks to you because I never thought my man would be back to me so quickly. You are such a nice man, I drop his contact below 👇 (WhatsApp +2348136785562) via email (highpriest422@gmail.com).
Mine folds up damp towels, They will dry eventually. A month later, why is there mildew and mold on the towels?
