Reddit users on the online forum Ask Reddit have named the most insane reasons couples chose to file for divorce.
The highest voted stories shared on the platform included a husband abandoning his marriage for a biker gang, a woman seeking a new partner following advice from a psychic, and a couple who separated on their wedding night because of a crime.
Reddit is a popular social news aggregation and discussion website where users participate in community subforums known as subreddits. Its Ask Reddit subforum is dedicated to open questions directed at the platform's global audience.
Motorcycle Gangs and Psychic Predictions
One story was shared by user littlemountains, who described how her sister's husband ruined a long term relationship during the coronavirus pandemic. The couple had lived together for more than 10 years and had a one and a half year old son before the husband lost his job.
According to the post, the husband spent his days riding a motorcycle and hanging out at a local bar before joining a biker gang similar to the Hells Angels. After several months of trying to reason with him, the sister issued an ultimatum demanding he choose between his family or the bikers, and he chose the bikers.
The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club is a worldwide motorcycle organization whose members typically ride Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
Another user, throwaway199299i1, recounted a breakup triggered by a fortune teller. She stated that a psychic promised her sister that she would meet her true love, prompting the sister to decide the prediction was a sign to divorce her husband.
Wedding Day Crimes and Family Feuds
Speedy divorces were another prominent theme in the discussion. User thebanger71 wrote about a friend who divorced on the exact evening of his wedding after a crime took place during the celebration.
Wedding guests noticed that two cousins of the bride, who were scheduled to give a toast, failed to appear and did not answer phone calls. The cousins had instead traveled to the home of the groom's parents, where the groom also lived while caring for his parents, in order to rob the house.
User Thoge shared a story of a bride who admitted just one week after her wedding that she no longer loved her husband. She explained that she had stayed quiet before the ceremony because she felt she deserved the wedding, and the couple finalized their divorce one month later.
Financial disputes between extended family members also led to immediate splits. User 76584329 reported that a husband's mother allegedly owed money to the wife's mother, though the mother denied the debt. The mothers got into a physical fight, prompting the wife to side with her mother and the husband with his, resulting in both filing for divorce the same day.
Methods to Refresh Long Marriages
The discussion follows a previous online thread where previously married web users shared unusual methods used to refresh long term relationships. Many participants advised finding friends of questionable moral character or starting a feud with someone so there would always be someone to discuss with a partner.
