Man wins divorce from wife 'too shy' to sleep with him

Taipei Times ^ | Monday, Feb 12, 2007 | DPA, TAIPEI

[DogByte6RER]

Man wins divorce from wife 'too shy' to sleep with him

DPA, TAIPEI

Monday, Feb 12, 2007, Page 2

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 (’Â), a 38-year-old teacher from Tainan County was introduced to a woman surnamed Lin (—Ñ), 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.

Through the matchmaker's mediation, Lin signed a contract agreeing to consummate the marriage but only for the purpose of procreation, and demanded to sleep separately.

However, she did not live up to the pledge, the paper said.

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.

[mikrofon]

That was before he invented PowerPoint...

[lowbridge]

"My wife likes to talk dirty to me during sex. Last night she called me from a motel."

[supremedoctrine]

Not too tired, but one I used to hear from girls in the 70s about why they can't spend more time on the phone after picking up....." I just washed my hair"

[Slings and Arrows]

Sleeping-single-in-a-double-bed ping!

[Darksheare]

Found his song, lyrics here.

[metmom]

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.

Why can't US judges show so much common sense?!?!?!

[metmom]

I love looking at the people in the background of those shots.

The guy with the cig looks like he's thinking that he can't believe what he's seeing.

The girl is laughing like that's about the funniest thing she's seen that day. (Can't blame her there.)

I'd love to know what's going through their minds.

[xJones]

"I tell ya, my wife was never nice. On our first date, I asked her if I could give her a goodnight kiss on the cheek - she bent over!"

"Every time my father used to beg my mother for sex, she'd show him a picture of me!"

[albee]

Q. What did Chen say to his wife Lin when she refused to have sex with him on his wedding night?

A. "Fo Klis Sake.....!"

[hellinahandcart]

ping

[DogByte6RER]

lol

That clip is a riot!

Is it from John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness?

[dighton]

Probably a Taipei personality.

I’d sell my Seoul for your punning prowess.

[Charles Henrickson]

I’d sell my Seoul for your punning prowess.

For my Pyongyang prowess?

[dighton]

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

[Revolting cat!]

Oh, please! I suspected the wife had contracted gone Korea!

[Revolting cat!]

"Take my wife, please!"

[skr]

Arrrrrghhh! : D

[BJClinton]

The man surnamed Chen, a 38-year-old teacher from Tainan County was introduced to a woman surnamed Lin, 29, also a teacher, by a matchmaker.

Can they sue the matchmaker?