Wife Files For Divorce After Her Husband Intentional Tightens All Of The Jar Lids In Their Kitchen

A woman has decided she could no longer stay in their marriage after her husband had made all of the jar lids in their kitchen so tight that she was unable to open them.

The wife took to Reddit to ask whether divorcing her husband was the correct decision after he purposefully put all of the kitchen lids too tight for her to open.

“His over-tightening jar lids [have] been an issue since he was just visiting at my house when we were dating,” she explained. “First, it started with just things he used, and then over time, it became every [expletive] glass jar with a metal lid. He’d tighten them so much I couldn’t open them without assistance.”

Her husband made excuses for why he screwed the jar lids on so tight, but it didn’t ring true to her.

“He initially claimed that he did it to ‘keep food fresh,’” she said. “Then the excuse was that it [was] a habit.”

This woman just lived with his lid-tightening as her reality until her neighbor made her realize how abnormal it was.

“So, about a month ago, my husband had a family emergency and had to travel out of state for 10 days,” she shared. “First day he’s gone, I discover a jar I can’t open. I was annoyed and was going to the store to buy new pickles when the neighbor said hi and to let him know if I needed anything while [soon-to-be-ex] is out of town. I said, ‘Wait here,’ and got the jar which he opened.”

The neighbor offered to come in and open all of the jars for her after she requested him to open another one. She happily accepted.

“He said, ‘You know this was intentional. It was every jar, and I’m sure he doesn’t regularly use hot pepper paste or mango puree or any of your other fancy cooking stuff,’” she recounted. “Then he held up the two jars he couldn’t open and said, ‘I don’t know why he’s doing it, but it wasn’t an accident.’”

“I couldn’t sleep that night,” she recalled. “Tossed and turned all night. I called out of work. By 10 a.m., I realized that I couldn’t stay married anymore and I made an appointment with a lawyer for the next day.”

Redditors who reacted to the woman’s post concurred that this went beyond a man merely wishing to seal jars to preserve food freshness.

“You’re not getting a divorce because of jar lids; you’re getting a divorce because your husband is gaslighting you for sport,” one person argued.

Someone countered, “You’re getting a divorce because your husband is gaslighting you for sport; you’re not getting a divorce because of jar lids.”

Many concluded that the spouse is gaslighting his wife and making her doubt everything by making her doubt reality and her capacity for logic.

There exist numerous rationales for a married couple to conclude that their partnership is unsustainable. It’s just not meant to be in some relationships. Still, most would agree that divorces over jar lids are extremely uncommon, if not unheard of.

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