Man Wins Divorce - $300,000 From Wife Because She Wouldn't Consumate Their Marriage

[matcom]

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A Tainan court has granted a man's request for divorce because his wife was "too shy" to consummate their marriage, a newspaper said yesterday.
The man surnamed Chen (陳), a 38-year-old teacher from Tainan County was introduced to a woman surnamed Lin (林), 29, also a teacher, by a matchmaker.

After the couple dated for three months, they married a year ago, but Lin refused to consummate the marriage, the Chinese-language daily China Times reported.

On the wedding night, Lin slept fully dressed and wrapped with a quilt, the daily said, without citing any sources.

When Chen tried to sleep with her, the report said, she pushed him away shouting: "You are ridiculous!"

The next morning Lin returned to her mother's home saying she was ill, and would not live with her husband again, the paper said.

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In June, Chen filed for divorce with the Tainan District Court. Lin contested the divorce, claiming that she refused to consummate the marriage on the wedding night because she was too tired and was ill.

But the judge said it was strange for Lin to refuse to consummate the marriage for one year, so he granted the divorce on Saturday and ruled that Lin must compensate Chen NT$300,000 for buying an apartment, giving Lin's family a dowry and losing face because she did not consummate the marriage.


http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2007/02/12/2003348667

[tonkatoy57]

1. I'll forward this to my wife...

for what it's worth.

[Smooth Operator]

2. could be

that Lin maybe a him and didn't want to be discovered. Shy indeed!!!

[Little Wing]

3. Jackpot!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

4. Damn, does that mean I could have gotten damages!1

Does that mean I could have gotten damages from my ex husband for not taking baths for several days so I wouldn't touch him, and that lovely aroma of cutting oil that turned me off???? (He was a machinist.)

Thoroughly gross smell. He just doesn't like women, and he found some other woman to put up with him. One that keeps house well and is a door mat.

Good riddance. I still don't know what his problem is but he thought marriage was living in a boarding house and screwing the landlady occasionally. Weird. Strange.

[ContraBass Black]

5. "You are ridiculous!"

Ouch. :scared: