Crappiest divorce rationale ever?

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In researching the previous post, I found:

"Tennille filed for divorce from Dragon (The Captain) in the State of Arizona on January 16, 2014, after 39 years of marriage. Dragon was unaware of the termination of his marriage until he was served with the divorce papers. The divorce documents referenced health insurance or health issues, and Tennille had written on her blog in 2010 that Dragon's neurological condition, similar to Parkinson’s, known as Essential tremor, was characterized by such extreme tremors he could no longer play keyboards."

So, she divorced him because... he couldn't play keyboards anymore?! So, she married him just because he could play?


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  1. Ken B9:26 AM

    Gene you are innocent in the ways of euphemism.

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    1. gcallah12:48 PM

      Wait a sec... So when my wife told me "Your trombone isn't working" she meant...?!

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    2. Ken B9:32 PM

      It might be a problem with her embouchure.

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  2. Keshav Srinivasan12:01 PM

    To be fair to her, I think she left divorced him because she felt she couldn't deal with his taking care of condition. She just mentioned inability to play keyboard to illustrate just how bad his tremors were. (And there's also mention of some sort of health insurance issue.) But I agree that that's still an immoral reason to divorce someone.

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