Unreasonable Behaviour

Divorce (and the sequel) progress steadily, if a little slowly. Assets are being distributed, patterns established, relationships re-negotiated. My solicitor urged caution that I don't prompt difficult responses from my wife simply in order to make the plot line for 'Solomon Was Right' more interesting.
"It would be an expensive way of developing the story," he said. Solicitors are dull.

"I'm going to petition you for divorce on grounds of unreasonable behaviour," I told my wife. She was unhappy.
"I'm not agreeing to that! I haven't been unreasonable."
"We don't have sex, you've moved into the spare room, you show no affection and you've said that you can't cope with my disability. That's all unreasonable behaviour," I replied. She wouldn't agree; the judge will have to decide.

My first wife responded in the same way. Even though she went to bed early on the first night of honeymoon, moved into the spare room shortly afterwards and permanently left the house after four months, she still wouldn't accept that she had behaved unreasonably. The judge was clear.

The trouble with girls is that they seem to think they can behave with impunity. Just because they walk out of a marriage doesn't mean they should be blamed for breaking it up, should they? Just because they infringe most of their wedding vows, doesn't make them unreasonable does it?