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MEN, start pulling your weight as women are more likely to seek divorce because they are fed up with having to do all household chores.
In a protest like fashion, a Bulawayo woman reportedly deserted her matrimonial homeA� after she got frustrated with doing all the housework.
Shandirai Dube-Shiri, a student nurse at the United Bulawayo Hospitals reportedly abandoned her husband Definite Shiri (ABOVE) claiming he was always verbally and emotionally abusing her for not performing wifely duties.
The seemingly fed-up Shandirai moved out of her matrimonial home in October last year because of a lack of gender equality in the marriage.
This emerged at the Bulawayo Civil Court where Shandirai sought a protection order against her estranged husband.
a�?I got married to the respondent (Definite) under the Marriages Act Chapter 5:11 and it still subsits. He is verbally and emotionally abusing me and as a result of the abuse I have since moved out of the house.
a�?He accused me of not doingA� household chores and is always sending insulting messages that accuse me of dating different men,a�? she said.
Apparently, as a way of fixing and embarrassing her, Shandirai said Definite visited her workplace and narrated their matrimonial disputes before her superiors.
In response, Definite said from the time Shandirai started training, she stopped comingA� home to perform her wifely duties. When he reprimanded her, she moved out of the house.
a�?From the time she started training as a nurse, she stopped coming home to do the household chores. Whenever she comes she would not sleep with me in the bedroom but would sleep in the living room on the sofa.
a�?She is lying that I chased her out of the house. She is the one who said she was no longer interested in the marriage.
She moved out on her own volition and out of frustration saying she was tired of doing all the household chores.
a�?Her mother even told me that I should not supervise her. When I followed her to her parentsa�� place, her mother shouted at me that I should not trouble her daughter. She said they can even give me back the money and cattle I paid for lobola.
a�?When I went to her workplace it was after she lied to me that she had been charged with misconduct because I confronted her male colleague who kept phoning me during the night asking her whereabouts,a�? he said.
In his ruling, Bulawayo magistrate Manase Musiiwa dismissed Shandiraia��s application saying there was no evidence that her estranged husband was verbally and emotionally abusing her.
derick.khumalo