When a marriage ends or a couple splits on bad terms, there’s usually a lot of fighting going on over material things.
But I have never actually heard about something like this. It seems totally ridiculous and silly when you think about it and I find it deeply disturbing that some grown ups resort to such drastic actions ( on the other hand, it’s pretty damn funny too):
A couple in Cambodia decided the most reasonable and cost efficient thing to do was to saw their house in half. Aside from the fact that it’s probably easier to do something like this in a country like Cambodia, how would you even attempt to cut a house in two?
From the Telegraph:
The wife will stay put with the upright half while her husband has carried away his half to start again on the other side of the village.
Neighbours said the couple saw the radical action as the most cost-efficient and equitable way to avoid each other in a country where divorce lawyers can be expensive.
Vorng Morn, the headman of Cheach village, fifty miles from the capital Phnom Penh, told the Phnom Penh Post: "We tried to persuade them to think clearly before they did this because they had been married for nearly 40 years. But they did not listen."
"His wife said that if her husband got sick and stayed at home, she was made to pay for his medicine, but if he stayed at his parent’s house, she wouldn’t have to pay. So they separated," said Mr Morn.
Whatever happened to for richer for poorer; in sickness and in health??
