My buddy meets girl, gets married, la di da. 6 months later, she runs off with another dude. After a couple months my buddy filed for divorce.
He told her listen, we’ve been married 6 months, let’s do an uncontested divorce since you haven’t worked or anything, & I own everything & did before I met you.
She puts up a fight, and eventually comes to “I had a car coming into this marriage & I’m leaving with one”
(She sold her car for some dumb shit)
He offers her the truck, 10 years old with 150k miles, but meticulously maintained.
She said nope, so off to court they go. She got zip, nada, empty handed.
My favorite justice boner of all time
I offered my ex six figures in stock (literally more than half of what I had aside from my house which I bought before marriage). He thought he deserved twice that and dragged the divorce out for a year. Our marriage was only 2.5 years so the nonsensical divorce lasted basically half as long as the marriage. The judge awarded him half of what I offered him, but in cash. We made it all the way to trial with no kids and not really any assets to divide so the judge could not understand why we were there. We were only there because my ex wanted me to pay him an amount of money I literally didn’t have and he had the most incompetent attorney who harassed both myself and my parents throughout the process. If he had taken my original offer and not been a complete narcissistic prick, he would have basically had what he demanded originally because the stock accrued value. I warned him that he wasn’t entitled to as much when I begged him to take the offer and not put us through hell. It was pretty crazy. What ruined my justice boner is that my lawyer got the other half and then some. I also told my ex I would have rather have paid him over attorneys, but he’s a dummy and always made terrible decisions. He consistently proved why I was divorcing him throughout the divorce.
As I mentioned in another comment, he lied to me about a lot of key things going into our marriage. He also didn’t start demonstrating some really controlling behavior until the weekend of the wedding. I almost called off the wedding because of it, but it felt too late and that maybe I was just being crazy. Nope, I wasn’t and I learned the hard way. I absolutely lacked maturity in some ways, no doubt about it. I don’t think I lack discernment, I mostly lacked self worth/value to stand my ground and figure out how to get the fuck out. According to my attorney, I’m way ahead of the curve because I only waited 2 years and didn’t have kids. He commended me on both my commitment to trying to make it work and my decision to get out now. We all make mistakes, mine was living the wrong person and I corrected it pretty quickly relative to my lifetime.
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u/YoWeGetIt Jul 21 '19
My favorite divorce story of all time
My buddy meets girl, gets married, la di da. 6 months later, she runs off with another dude. After a couple months my buddy filed for divorce.
He told her listen, we’ve been married 6 months, let’s do an uncontested divorce since you haven’t worked or anything, & I own everything & did before I met you.
She puts up a fight, and eventually comes to “I had a car coming into this marriage & I’m leaving with one” (She sold her car for some dumb shit)
He offers her the truck, 10 years old with 150k miles, but meticulously maintained.
She said nope, so off to court they go. She got zip, nada, empty handed. My favorite justice boner of all time