Lawyers Are Sharing The “Pettiest” Reasons People Have Filed For Divorce And I'm Curious If You Agree...
by Sara Thompson · BuzzFeedDivorce. Depending on who you are, it's either a blessing or a curse. But its cause isn't as black and white and can range from apparent no-nos like cheating to minor things like constantly leaving the toilet seat up (no, really).
So, I, a never-been-married before woman, fell into the deep rabbit hole of KarysMR's Reddit thread asking divorce lawyers, "What's the pettiest reason you've ever seen for divorce?" Call me petty, but I can definitely make a couple of arguments for them...
1. "The husband kept putting wet/used towels on their bed."
2. "I know a couple that divorced (or annulled?) after less than six months married because the guy started farting around her; not, like, at her, just not holding it in around her anymore."
3. "I'm not a lawyer, but I'm a paralegal. Someone came in for a divorce because their soon-to-be ex changed the password on their phone. The plaintiff had always had the code to get in, but now they didn't. Divorce time."
4. "The toilet seat being left up."
5. "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."
6. "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."
7. "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."
8. "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."
9. "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 high school the wife had gone to as a child."
10. "I'm not a lawyer, but my neighbors divorced because one wanted a dog so badly, and the other refused even to consider it."
11. "I had a client who, with his wife, was into a computer game like the Sims, but 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, through her avatar, of 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."
12. "I'm a lawyer, but not that kind. However, my brother's fourth wife divorced him because she found out the ring he'd used was originally his third wife's."
13. "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."
14. "The wife wanted a divorce, like, two months into the marriage, because the husband would squeeze the toothpaste from the top and not the bottom. She claims to have told him a million times over to stop. It would have been easier to get two toothpastes, I thought."
15. "Not a lawyer, but I'd like to put forward my own mother's top reason for divorcing my father, 'farts loudly in public.'"
16. "I know a guy who divorced his wife because she refused to learn to cook a certain fish dish his mom used to cook."
17. "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."
—Kat
18. "Her husband came home one day asking her to give a higher financial contribution to 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 a divorce. Worth mentioning that his salary was three times higher than hers..."
Do you know someone who got divorced over "petty" reasons? Did you? Let us know in the comments below! 👇
Note: Submissions have been edited for length and clarity.