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Shocking breakups, divorces and crazy excuses given

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Some individuals, especially men, in unhappy relationships and marriages find it extremely difficult to break up or divorce. And even if they have the guts to do so, how they go about it is plain ridiculous.

In most cases, partners unable to terminate their unions amicably either start to play ‘hide and seek’, abscond from responsibilities, ration or deny each other conjugal rights, cheat or simply go silent on their partners.

However, the lucky few are at least given excuses. Unfortunately, the excuses given or grounds on which some partners dump or divorce each other range from flimsy, crazy and downright silly! Some leave you wondering whether they were unhappy in the relationship and were just waiting for any reason or excuse, however stupid and flimsy, to exit. 

Dumped her through his mother

Some become stunningly petty while others exhibit immature behaviour that would make an average 5-year-old child embarrassed on their behalf.

Take for instance the case of Rose Mwende whose boyfriend of six years dumped her through his mother. The brat was 28-years-old. Apparently, her boyfriend, a mama’s boy to boot, had introduced her to his mother with whom they became too close.

“We (Rose and her boyfriend’s mother) become so close that I would visit her, bond with her and even share meals,” says Rose.

Then all of a sudden, she says, things went wrong, and the mama’s boy began playing ‘hide and seek’; he began ignoring her text messages and phone calls, and feigning busyness!

“When I paid his mother a visit one weekend, I got the shock of my life. His mum told me he was no longer in love with me and that he had moved on. He went ahead to tell his mum to inform me to also move on,” explains Mwende, adding that this was not just her worst break up ever, but also the hardest time of her life.

 Booted via skype in front of friends

Mwende is not alone. Josephine Njeri’s experience was even more unpalatable. Just when she was playfully ‘boasting’ to her visiting friends about how handsome her boyfriend was as she talked to him on Skype, he dumped her, telling her, “this thing (long distance relationship) is not working for me, let’s just be friends”.

“I have never been so embarrassed and pissed off with a man. I felt like smashing the laptop. I hurriedly shut down the damn thing and drank my sorrows all night,” says Njeri. She proceeds to confess that her girlfriends initially laughed their heads off, but later consoled her, and drank the night away as they encouraged her to take heart. 

Left in hotel with huge bill

As a woman, what would you do if your boyfriend dumped you by leaving you in a hotel while on a date with a huge unpaid bill? That is exactly what Ken Inziani did to one of his exes.

“She was in the habit of annoying me and laughing it off whenever I expressed my displeasure. On this particular day, she kept chatting and chuckling with some of her friends on WhatsApp and Facebook, and paying very little attention to me,” says a no nonsense Inziani.

Push came to shove and halfway the date, Inziani could not take it anymore; he calmly excused himself and vanished without a trace, leaving her with the huge bill to settle. 

No love making

And if you thought it’s only Kenyans who get crazy when breaking up you are in for a rude shock. Some of the excuses and circumstances under which mzungus separate will make you roll on the ground with laughter.

In Taiwan, where many women think that sex is evil, a man divorced his wife for being “too shy” to consummate their marriage, even after an entire year. She played ‘cat and mouse’ with her legal husband for a whole year? What cheek!

China Times reported that the man surnamed Chen, a 38-year-old teacher from Tainan County was introduced to a woman surnamed Lin, 29, also a teacher, by a matchmaker.

The couple got married after dating for three months, but Lin refused to consummate the marriage. On the wedding night, Lin slept fully dressed and wrapped herself in a duvet.

And when Chen tried to undress her in readiness for the inaugural ‘gland-to-gland’ combat, she pushed him away shouting: “You are ridiculous!” Ha!

The next morning Lin returned to her mother’s home saying she was ill, and would not live with her husband again. 

Dowry refund

Through the matchmaker’s mediation, Lin signed a contract agreeing to consummate the marriage but only for the purpose of procreation, and demanded to sleep separately.

However, she did not live up to the pledge; she denied him access to the cookie jar for a whole year. Consequently, Chen filed for divorce, which Lin contested, claiming that she refused to consummate the marriage on the wedding night because she was too tired!

But the judge granted the divorce, and ruled that Lin compensate Chen Sh879,102 for dowry wasted!

It gets even crazier. A 52-year-old woman in Taiwan divorced her 55-year-old husband, Zhou, over the size of his member. According to Dailychilli.com, the woman, Zhang, said, “His manhood is so small, like a kid’s, only 5cm long! We’ve never had sex in our entire marriage.”

It was reported that the two met in July of 2008 and got married five months later. She wanted him to raid the cookie jar prior to the ceremony, but he refused on religious grounds.

 Divorced for having a small member

Zhang says she discovered he had a very small member on their wedding night and asked him to seek treatment. They spent some time together, hoping the treatment would work but wapi (nothing of the sort)! She divorced him.

And sticking with matters to do with member size, a man was divorced by his wife after his manhood extension snapped and broke off during a wild, bedroom marathon session.

Doctors in Russia, had fitted the special prosthetic when Grigory Toporov, 47, told them he didn’t measure up to his wife’s expectations in bed. But she was horrified when the extension broke off, and got fed up after her husband who had promised to replace the extension never did so.

So you thought that was crazy? Well, a Saudi woman asked for divorce in 2008 because her husband tried to unveil her and sneak one look at her face after 30 years of marriage. 

Left for looking at her face

Apparently, the Saudi Arabian man had lived with his wife for 30 years without setting eyes on her face! Would you believe that? His 50-year-old wife strictly followed the traditions of her native village and kept her entire body veiled at all times.

One night the husband was overcome by curiosity and tried to lift his wife’s veil as she slept to take a look at her face. His outraged wife woke up during his sneak peek and decided to demand a divorce!

The ‘betrayed’ wife said her husband apologised and promised never to do it again, but she insisted she wanted a divorce. It may seem odd, but cases of Saudi husbands with wives forever shrouded in mystery are not uncommon.

In April 2009, a German woman, fed up with her husband’s obsession with cleaning everything in their house all the time, divorced him on those grounds!

Their marriage had lasted 15 years, with the woman putting up with the man’s fondness for doing household chores such as tidying up and rearranging furniture.

She, however ran out of patience when he knocked down and rebuilt a wall in their home when it got dirty.

 Sued for lying about her age

Elsewhere in China, a woman surnamed Luo, who lied about her age, was dumped by her husband after 10 years of marriage.

Luo, who was 30 when husband-to-be Cen asked her to marry him, told him she was just 24. In 2007, Cen filed for divorce after realising he had been duped and the court granted his wish.

Wacky as it may sound, a Romanian woman unsuccessfully tried to divorce her husband in 2005 because she just couldn’t stand having lunch with her mother-in-law every day. The 22-year-old woman had been married for only 10 months when she claimed her life turned into a nightmare because of her mother-in-law.

 Daily lunches with mother-in-law almost breaks marriage

The woman told a judge that the presence of her mother-in-law at the most important meal of the day—lunch—with her teasing remarks had ruined her marriage. The court asked Mrs. Elena to reconsider her demand, advising her to find a better reason if she wants to separate from her husband.

And what about the incident reported by Taiwan Courier Mail whereby a carpenter bought an adult DVD only to find out his wife and best friend (a butcher) were starring in the film?

The act apparently had been recorded using a hidden camera and sneaked into a blue movie collection titled, “Affairs with Others’ Wives”. The carpenter divorced his wife. And stabbed his friend.

The reasons why some couples divorce get even more bizarre. Take for instance the case reported by the Mail Online of a man who was divorced after he got on a plane, leaving his new wife for having taken took too long in an airport loo.

Apparently, the two were flying from a holiday (funded by the woman) in Malaysia to Saudi Arabia, and the woman went to answer to a call of nature but took too long, pissing off her husband who boarded the plane without her! His wife was, of course, very angry. She demanded an immediate divorce!

Nothing exposes insanity in humans like their break ups and divorces!

 

 

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