Posted on 11/03/2008 6:41:06 AM PST by forkinsocket
An Iranian man has filed for divorce and asked a court to protect him from his hefty wife, saying she lays into him every night when he gets home from work, the Etemad newspaper reported on Saturday.
"Every night when I get home my wife, who is tall and strong, hits me," the paper quoted the man, identified only by his first name Behrouz, as telling the family court in Tehran.
"I am a cleaner at a hotel and get home late at night. But my wife thinks I do other things after work."
Behrouz, who is slightly built, said he no longer wanted to go home and pleaded for the court to save him from his wife, Etemad said.
The judge has now summoned the wife to appear before the court before he gives a final ruling in the case.
Rights activists have long campaigned for changes to Iran's family law which is deemed discriminatory against women in matters of divorce and child custody.
Men's refusal to pay maintenance, drug addiction and physical abuse are among the more common reasons for divorce in the Islamic republic.
This is hilarious. As humiliating as that may be in a normal country imagine how humiliating it is in a macho country like Iran to be totally beaten by your wife.
I have known women like that. In my previous job our office assistant was a gravitationally challenged woman and she once admitted that she hit her husband when she got frustrated with him
Okay, let’s see. Come home from work, get beat up. Next day, come home from work, get beat up. I wonder if the guy might start seeing a correlation here soon.
Dude, don’t come home from work!
I thought all muzzie men had to do to get a divorce was say, “I divorce thee” 3 times???
But it only works if you are also wearing the ruby slippers.
For the Sunni, not the Shi'a. For the latter you have to go through a process of announcement of intent, attempt at reconciliation and then finally divorce.
OK, an old Redd Foxx joke.
Redd says:
My wife weighs 300 lbs.
She thinks I love her, ‘cause every time she gets into bed...
I roll toward her.
Ha, ha! She should stuff that wuss into a burka and tell him to get over it.
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