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Getting a divorce because of Covid!

(93 Posts)
mumofmadboys Fri 23-Apr-21 07:31:16

Perhaps he holds unreasonable views about a lot of things

sukie Fri 23-Apr-21 05:12:59

What foxie48 said.

M0nica Thu 22-Apr-21 18:11:15

I am with Goldenlady, I think someone swallowed up by conspiracy theories is someone gone well over the edge. They are living in an unreal world, where everyone is against them, the world is run by aliens, or Bill Gates or the Illumnati, or even David Ickes, lizards.

I can well understand where someone living in that kind of world that is so divorced from reality may well bring a marriage to breaking point.

JenniferEccles Thu 22-Apr-21 17:41:36

So presumably this chap thinks leaders all over the world are in on this daft conspiracy?
The pictures of the poor souls in India dying as their hospitals are completely full and running out of oxygen?

I couldn’t possibly be with someone who held those views.

foxie48 Thu 22-Apr-21 17:23:17

She doesn't want a divorce because he's a Covid conspirator, she wants one because he's an idiot.

JaneJudge Thu 22-Apr-21 17:12:42

I imagine loads of people in their 30s/40s/50s will be getting divorced after all this to be honest. I get on with my husband but he has at times, driven me mad during the last 12 months and if he was a covid denier, not wearing a mask, refusing a vaccine I would actually be even more cross.

GoldenLady Thu 22-Apr-21 17:10:55

That "government conspiracy" thing sounds pretty paranoid to me. Perhaps he is mentally ill.

Katie59 Thu 22-Apr-21 17:08:32

I’m sure you’re only hearing part of the story, his side, couples fall out over all sorts of odd things including leaving the top off the toothpaste.
The didn’t get on, end of story.

vampirequeen Thu 22-Apr-21 15:52:47

This must be the straw that broke the woman's back. He was probably so wrapped up in himself that he didn't notice that she was unhappy. Some men are like that. Even when I left the ex he couldn't understand it because we were happy. I was suicidal. He just didn't notice.

FarNorth Thu 22-Apr-21 15:51:10

If he is in and out of people houses, without a mask, and most probably taking risks elsewhere, I expect his wife was very frightened.
I don't think it's trivial at all.

EllanVannin Thu 22-Apr-21 15:50:10

Doesn't take much these days, does it ? ( rolls eyes )

DaisyL Thu 22-Apr-21 15:45:54

To be honest I hadn't worried about him being in the house without a mask on - he was in the kitchen with the french windows open and I've had both vaccine jabs. I just thought it was so awful to end a long relationship over a difference of opinion. He has left his house and is sleeping on a friend's sofa.

Jane43 Thu 22-Apr-21 15:41:52

A friend of our younger son, in his fifties, also thought it was all a hoax and was very blase about precautions. He contracted Covid, was in intensive care and at one stage his wife and two sons were called to visit him as it was thought he would die. Despite the odds he pulled through but he lost six stone in weight and is now very frail. Of course now he has a different opinion.

AGAA4 Thu 22-Apr-21 15:41:14

She may be better off without someone with those beliefs.

Redhead56 Thu 22-Apr-21 15:37:58

People are shallow making petty excuses to quit a relationship. I would not have s workman in the house without a mask either.

Kestrel Thu 22-Apr-21 15:33:00

Good grief - hope there were actually other factors and the covid issue was the final straw - otherwise it seems very drastic shock

Fleur20 Thu 22-Apr-21 15:15:24

Would not have been in my house.
No mask?
She who pays the piper....

DaisyL Thu 22-Apr-21 15:12:57

I had a plumber in my house yesterday and he told me that he and his wife are getting divorced because he believes that Covid is a government conspiracy and she doesn't. They are in their 40s and had been together for twenty years - but he will not compromise. Refuses to wear a mask, will not and says he never will have the vaccine, is convinced that the government is trying to kill us! I am a bit sceptical about the dangers, but not foolhardy. Seems tragic to end a marriage because of this. I was quite shocked - he has always struck me as a very sensible young man.