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WIFE ENDS MARRIAGE BECAUSE OF HUSBAND'S FISHING ADDICTION

A Chinese woman recently divorced her husband of ten years because of his addiction to fishing, a hobby he often put before his family.

According to a divorce case filed with the People’s Court in Shandong Province, the woman, surnamed Zhang, claimed that she had had enough of her husband’s fishing addiction. She complained that she has to take care of all the house chores and their two children, while he sits on the sofa looking at his smartphone and then going out to fish with his friends after dinner every evening.

After repeatedly asking him to spend more time with her and the children rather than with his fishing buddies, Zhang decided that divorce was the only viable option.

“I get up before six am every morning to prepare breakfast. I send the two kids to school before I go to work. Every day, it is me who washes the dishes, cleans our home, picks up the children from school, and helps them with their homework. I am exhausted,” Zhang explained in her court filing.

“But my husband gets up after I prepare breakfast, and after work, he just lies on the sofa and plays with his mobile phone,” the woman added. “After dinner, he goes straight out to fish, often spending the whole night fishing.”

Fed up with his wife’s complaining, the man, surnamed Sun, agreed to end their marriage (probably because that would mean even more time for fishing!). After attempts at mediation between the spouses failed, the judge approved the divorce application but not before calling in Sun, who had forgotten about the hearing and gone fishing, instead.

“Fishing is not a bad thing, but there is a limit for everything. Once you are married, you have to take on the responsibility of being a husband or wife, and a parent. Don’t put fishing before family,” Judge Fu Hong-lian scolded Sun, who did not appear to be much affected.

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