An Unreasonable Husband

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Libyan law allowed men to divorce their wives simply by saying, three times, “I divorce you.”

We heard of an interesting divorce case involving a middle-aged couple. The husband was a real SOB. He got angry with his wife over some petty thing and divorced her. A couple of days later, he re-married her.

After a few months, he did the same thing again.

And a few months he divorced her again. But this time he ran into a problem when he tried to re-marry her. The judge refused to authorize the wedding. Apparently, the law said that a man could not marry the same wife for a third time – unless she had got married to a different man after the third divorce from her original husband.

The husband pleaded with the judge but the latter was adamant. “What you must do,” he said, “is have your ex-wife marry somebody else and divorce him quickly. Then I can re-marry the two of you.”

The husband didn’t like the idea of his ex-wife marrying another man. However, he soon came up with what he thought was an excellent solution. He would arrange for her to marry one of his relatives, a teenager who was a very sweet boy but mentally challenged.

The wife objected to the arrangement but her family forced her to go along with it and she married the boy.

Libyan Bride

(All the stuff on her chest that looks like gold is gold - solid gold)

Guests (with more gold) at a Wedding

The day after the wedding, the old husband came to her new home and said, “Okay. Now get your idiot husband to divorce you.”

Much to his surprise, the woman refused. “I much prefer my new young husband to you,” she told her ex.

The ex-husband rushed to court to ask for the marriage to be dissolved. The judge pointed out that the man had brought the problem on himself by treating his wife badly, and he refused to annul the marriage.

The woman went on living happily with her new husband.

And the rest of us gained a new respect for Libyan law.