Yahoo Lifestyle 19 Totally Unexpected Reasons Why A Couple Broke Up Or Got Divorced
Recently Reddit user u/nigel247 asked, "What is the wildest reason you have heard for a breakup or divorce?
No part of me was ready for their responses. Here's what they had to say:
1."She couldn't stand that she was older than him, and said it's 'not right' and 'unnatural'...she was three months older than him."
2."She divorced him because he kept clapping when the plane landed."
3."I knew a couple who were swingers and regularly went to swinging parties. He told me they never kissed anyone else but did everything else. She then kissed someone at a party and he left her because he said he couldn’t trust her anymore."
4."She left him after catching him eating spaghetti with his hands."
5."One of my best friends from high school got a divorce when he found out his wife was posting on Reddit about their relationship problems. He said she should have asked for permission first."
6."She farted in front of him. Once."
7."I had a friend who bragged about how sweet her new boyfriend was and casually added, 'Too bad I have to break up with him. I can't be seen with a haircut like that.'"
8."He bought lottery tickets every week. Like, $20-$25 in tickets. She left him for spending $100 a month on lottery tickets."
9."An acquaintance back in my army days divorced her husband because he could not stop buying collectible G.I. Joe action figures. It was a full-on addiction that he was hiding from her. It bankrupted them and had amassed a collection of $150K that he tried to hide from her."
10."Two of my really good friends, who everyone saw as the perfect couple, split up. Two days later, my then-partner told me he was leaving because 'it made him realize that if they could split up, anyone could, so we might as well get it over and done with now.'"
11."I know of a woman divorcing her husband because he would close the lids of their jars too tightly, and she could never get them open."
12."The husband was an 'Alpha male' and would not wipe his butt anymore."
13."I know of a guy whose girlfriend left him because he wasn't as skilled in skiing as her."
14."The wife had a chronic dry eye, which made her contacts uncomfortable, and the husband could not handle the fact that her eyes were different colors."
15."I know of a couple divorcing because the husband kept bringing his mom on their romantic getaway trip."
16."My ex broke up with me because I was the first person she slept with. Her mother told her that she couldn't settle for her first and needed to go out and sleep with more people."
17."I knew this couple where the wife was sensitive to fluorescent light bulbs, but the husband kept insisting on having them to save the environment. He would change out the incandescent bulbs when she was asleep multiple times. She got sick of it and filed for divorce."
18."She went and saw a fortune teller for fun. She was told that he was not the one she'd seen in her future. So she broke up with him the next day."
19.And finally, "I know a couple from my neighborhood that divorced because some child made up a story that he saw the husband with another woman."
Submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.
What's the strangest reason you've heard for someone's breakup? Let us know in the comments!
