If your spouse had a problem with buying too many clothes and left them all over your home, would you consider a divorce over that?
It’s been 16 years so far that this man has been married to his wife, and he’s ready to divorce her over her clothes, of all things. Throughout the last 12 years, his wife has bought an inordinate amount of clothing.
At this stage, his wife’s clothing has entirely exploded all over their house, which is 2,000 square feet in size, but the way, and yet, her clothes take up the majority of their space.
“There are piles of clothes in every room. Multiple laundry baskets full. I put my clothes up in my closet, but she has more than there is space for,” he explained.
“I’ve asked, begged, bribed, and threatened her to get rid of some of the clothes, but she refuses. Tonight may be the last straw. I’m actually writing this, trying to sleep in a recliner because our bed is so covered in clothes that you can’t sleep in it or the guest bed.”
“I’m just so tired of the disaster our house is. It’s not only the clothes, [but there are also] just piles of junk that she gets at yard sales everywhere.”
Oh, and then there’s all of the garbage. His wife makes him pick up after her. Any time that she drinks or eats something, she leaves her trash behind on the kitchen counters.
His wife will walk right past their garbage can and still won’t throw her messes away. Also, if there are empty rolls of toilet paper in their bathroom, she won’t change them out; she just grabs a new roll and plops it down on the sink.
He’s attempted to quit cleaning up after her to gauge if that will help make a change, but it hasn’t. His wife isn’t someone who can be helped.
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“The dishes would overflow the sink until I’d load the dishwasher. The litter box would be so full and reek of ammonia until I couldn’t stand it anymore and change it,” he continued.
“In the last 12 years, we [have been] like roommates. It doesn’t feel like we are a couple anymore, and I am miserable in this house; it does me no good to try and straighten up when there is no place to put anything because every closet, drawer, cabinet, etc. is full.”
“And she just doesn’t care…….”
Well, it definitely sounds like his wife is a hoarder and has a legitimate problem with accumulating stuff. It would be kind of him to try to encourage her to see a therapist before he leaves, but a divorce seems to be the best thing for him to do, considering they no longer have a romantic connection.
What advice do you have for him?
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By Bre Avery Zacharski
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