17 Wild And Bizarre Reasons People Got Divorced
"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"
"A woman I know broke up with her fiancé because she didn't like how he picked out his vegetables at the market!"
"I divorced my ex-husband because he bought the wrong kind of coffee for the third time in a row."
"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 had severe OCD and couldn't handle any clutter or things out of place."
"Not divorced, but a friend had a girl drop him because she dreamed that he cheated on her."
"She bought a fancy designer dog to lay in bed with her and it liked him more because he was active."
"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."
"Had a friend who divorced her fifth(?) husband because he kicked her dog out of bed. True story."
"Her husband wouldn't stop hanging his underwear on the doorknob."
"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."
"He wouldn't unscrunch his socks before tossing them in the laundry hamper."
"Husband would not stop playing World of Warcraft. Evenings, weekends, their anniversary, both their birthdays. Endless."
"A friend of mine got divorced because she found out her husband was also her biological brother."
"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."
"Friend's wife went to a psychic who said she should divorce her husband. So she did."
"It was during a trip to the mountains, three couples and a single third (seventhth?) wheel in a cabin."
"My mum's best friend was dumped by her girlfriend of seven years because she suddenly realised that she couldn't date a Gemini."
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