Apparently, being short is now a bad thing and enough grounds, like adultery, to divorce one’s spouse.
At least that is what a woman in Saudi Arabia seems to be saying when she sought divorce from her husband of seven months on the grounds that he was too short.
The woman, whose name was not given, sought to divorce her husband in Saudi Arabia’s eastern province of Al Qatif on the excuse that she could no longer stand the “mockery and shocked looks” that friends and neighbours gave her over her husband’s height.
Furthermore she stated that she was fed up of the shocking attitudes of strangers who laugh derisively at them and say that she towered over her husband.
This, she said, made her feel “painfully uneasy” and “distressingly uncomfortable”, the Gulf News reports.
When the news broke on social media, users were divided over supporting or blaming her for the action.
While some said her action in seeking for a divorce now that the union was still fresh was justified because marriage was for life, others blame her for insensitivity to her husband’s plight and accepting his proposal in the first place.
A study by researchers at New York University published in 2014 found that tall men were 32 percent more likely to divorce their wives than short men.
However the study also found that short men were more likely to marry later than tall men, just as it also found that height might affect “more than just a man’s suit size.”