Unbelievable Divorce Stories: 70 Outrageous Reasons That Will Shock You!
Ever wonder how bizarre divorce reasons can get before you just throw in the towel? Well, buckle up, because the stories we’re about to dive into are as wild and bewildering as thinking someone might magically change after saying “I do.” Take the tale of a cousin who brought his own brand of confusion to marriage—he married a Mexican woman but later divorced her, claiming in court he expected her to be “less Mexican” post-wedding! Talk about setting the bar low on expectations. These jaw-dropping, head-scratching, sometimes downright hilarious breakup tales reveal just how strange love and its breakup rituals can be. Ready for a rollercoaster of the dumbest and most bizarre divorces you’ve ever heard? Let’s jump in and maybe figure out what NOT to say if you ever find yourself in the hot seat. LEARN MORE
I have a cousin who I’m not close to (for obvious reasons) that has always been very racist. So imagine our surprise when he dated, married, and had kids with a Mexican woman.
Six years in he divorced her and said *in court* that he just couldn’t stand being married to a Mexican any longer. He told the judge he “thought she’d be less Mexican after the wedding”
Thankfully, she got the kids in the divorce and she moved them far away from that part of my family. I still get Christmas cards from her, she’s a wonderful lady.
He didn’t buy me anything for Christmas. Like nothing. We were young and broke but I found a receipt for a jewelry store purchase in his truck. I (admittedly) got my hopes up and then Christmas came and went and still nothing. That jewelry store purchase was for himself. He went 3 days before Christmas and bought himself a Masonic ring. It was the fact that he stood there right before Christmas and never gave me a thought. Things already weren’t great, but that’s what broke it.
I divorced my ex husband because he bought the wrong kind of coffee for the third time in a row.
This was obviously not the only reason/whole story but it was a definitive event in my mind when I knew the marriage was over. I had asked him nicely the last two times he bought that kind to pick a different variety because it tasted burnt.
I had three little kids and my morning coffee was my lifeblood, we were always tight on money anyway, and he just had to ruin that small thing for me.
It was the years of disrespect, weaponized incompetence and his refusal to act like a f*cking adult that all culminated in him buying the wrong coffee and me losing the will to fight for that one sided relationship.
There’s so many horror stories out there of men leaving their wives after the wife gets cancer.
Well, this one woman was diagnosed with cancer and she thought her husband would do that so she filed for divorce. He begged her not to. He wasn’t going to leave her. He was going to stay by her side no matter what. He was her ride or die. But she wouldn’t listen.
She’s now cancer-free and regrets her decision and has been trying to get back together with him. He’s remarried now and has told her to f**k off in every single way.
My sister-in-law dreamed once that a literal Knight in shining armor rescued her from something terrible and rode away with her on his steed. When they were away from danger she pulled the knight’s helmet off it wasn’t her current husband.
She told my wife and me this story. She wanted advice on how to tell her husband that she doesn’t believe he is the one for her. I started to laugh because it was the stupidest thing I have ever heard and I asked her multiple times if she was messing with me. I was then told I was an a*****e for laughing at her dream. And making a joke about her feelings. I had to ask her if she is serious because of how stupid it sounded.
At that point, I knew the sister in law was dumb and out of touch. I make sure to mention it every so often casually. My wife realized that day that her sister lives in a fantasy world.
They were divorced within the year. I guess her ex-husband had the same feelings I did.
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.
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 was severely OCD and couldn’t handle any clutter or things out of place.
They’d been married 19 years and she did everything. She was the main breadwinner, paid all the bills, did all the housework, cooked every meal. He had it *good*. He was over 500lbs of basically dead weight but she loved him so much she didn’t mind. Then he had the nerve to ask for an open marriage. She decided to allow it. He started dating me and her and I got along great.
The issue is I’m not that type of woman. I don’t wait on people. He’s a grown man ffs. Then he started helping me with stuff I’d do at their house like making dinner. She watched him be a whole boyfriend to me, court me and help me. He hadnt done that stuff for her in years. We both dumped him at the same time realizing we both likely deserved better. I swear I saw her fall out of love with him over that salad, though.
