Good Reason To File For Divorce?

[wolf63]

Do you think this is a good reason to divorce?

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/divorce-tighten-jar-lids-reddit-b2568746.html?

😁

[Tilly2]

Yes. He's a control freak.

[Patsy33]

Tormentful so & so!..

[jno]

yes. You don't do things your partner has asked you not to.

[Ken4155]

He was doing it before they married so it begs the question, why did she marry him?

[wolf63]

Maybe I have never lived with someone long enough to know how annoying this might be.

😂😂😂

[jno]

maybe she thought he'd be prepared to meet her halfway, only to find that he refuses to budge an inch. It's not just that it's an annoying habit, it makes her life harder; it sounds like a deliberate show of strength to me, literally, and who needs that from a partner.

[choux]

Good grief - had she never heard of jar-openers or rubber gloves or a shed vice? I smiled when I saw that reddit invites us to view the comments - all 16508 of them, think I will pass on that.

[jno]

that doesn't answer my question, though, choux: why would a husband deliberately force his wife to buy gadgets to do daily tasks? Why is he hindering her when he could be helping her?

Dump him!😡

 

[pastafreak]

So he suggested marriage counselling and she won't go. They are both stubborn...could he be doing it without realising?

No...not worth divorcing over. Even she admits there's nothing else wrong in the relationship. 

Maybe the neighbour is doing it 🤣

[choux]

The article only gives us one side of the story, jno. It can be dangerous to leave jars with a lid barely screwed on - lift the jar by the lid and broken glass can ensue...

I wonder if the judge will treat the hearing as an open-and-shut case?

[jno]

she's not asking for the lids to be "barely screwed on", just not too tight for her to open.

Suggesting counselling is just an avoidance mechanism. What possible result could come of it? He can only be suggesting it in the hopes of changing her behaviour.

[wolf63]

I think that many of these stories are made up.  Or one person's interpretation of the situation.

Either that or human beings are more complicated and complex than I thought.

 

[jno]

depends, wolf, the AITA Reddit is for people who wonder if they're doing the right thing, and often enough they get advice and argument both ways. At any rate, the writer is prepared to listen otherwise she wouldn't have asked.

[Old_Geezer]

He needed to feel needed and be the one able to open the jars. Sad really.

[10ClarionSt]

I've told this before on here but back in the 70's, when we used to have 2 postal deliveries a day, a work colleague, who lived quite close to work, went home for his lunch on his birthday. Earlier, he'd told us that he'd received a nice birthday card from his wife in the early post, Happy Birthday Ron, luv u loads, etc. etc. When he came back to work after lunch, he showed us a letter that he'd received from his wifes' solicitor filing for divorce. The course of true love! Last I heard, they were still together. 😍

[Hopkirk]

I reckon the husband has OCD.

 

If I was her I would buy lots of tupperware and decant everything into easy to open containers.