Wife demands divorce spontaneously, demands husband move out but he refuses: 'You want the divorce, not me, so you should leave'

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Sep 10, 2025 12:00 PM EDT

Divorce is one of the hardest things for a person to go through. Not only is it emotionally draining and life shattering, but it's a financial headache. Suddenly love is looking back at you from a paper that you have a sign, a document of your failed love and relationship. A reminder to the sentiment, "love isn't enough," while you try to collect the fragments of your life that you build around a person you're assumingly never going to be involved with ever again. The husband in the story here doesn't want the divorce. Three weeks ago, his wife springs it on him that she's unhappy and wants a divorce. 

She accuses him of all sorts of things, and puts all the blame on him. We don't know much about their history together, but we do know that she's demanding he leave their shared home. He moves temporarily, and returns to end things properly. He tells her that if she wants to divorce him, she'll have to be the one leaving. Comment below on what you think he should do to handle the situation. 

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    AITH - Wife wants a divorce but shes expecting me to move out

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    Three weeks ago, my wife told me that she wants a divorce, long story but shes just basically doesn't want to be married to me
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    any more and that it's all my fault and that I created all the pain. She expected me to move out...she wants to keep the house.
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    I told her, "You want the divorce, not me, so you should leave.." As a result of this she called me a
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    narcissist and said she needed space and peace, etc. etc. I moved out for 7 days, then I thought this is nonsense. I told
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    her that I was returning and sleeping in our bed...I told her that I was not abandoning this marriage and that if she wanted
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    out of the marriage that she should leave. As a result, I was everything but a nice person with
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    a HUGE blowup. So, AITA if I stay in the house and sleep in our bed??
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    Key-Bear-9184 • 8h ago Any lawyer will tell you DO NOT move out of the house. Sleep in separate rooms if
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    necessary but don't abandon the domicile, and lawyer up NOW.
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    Quiet_Village_1425 • 8h ago NTA. Stay in the house! You don't have to speak to her.
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    She can claim abandonment. Get a lawyer NOW!
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    Recording Eastern6... • 8h ago 7 days gone is not abandonment. She wants the divorce she can leave or
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    move to an extra bedroom. Make the bills, all of the bills 50/50, and the groceries, too. Meet with an attorney immediately
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    Salty BlackBroad ⚫8h ago Posts like this are making me look at profile accounts, how many times the poster has replied in their own
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    created post, and how active an account has been. It's bad enough that video shorts are scripted, then you
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    come across posts on Reddit and other platforms where they themselves seem scripted.
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    Lou Dorsett • 8h ago NTA. She's talking relationship. After she talks to a lawyer she will be
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    talking dollars. Don't leave the house. Speak to a lawyer immediately.
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    Electronic Ladder398 • 8h ago why are you on reddit instead of talking to a lawyer?
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    AimHigh-Universe ⚫8h ago What happened that you are the cause of pain? How many members in your
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    family? How long have you been married? Who owns the house and when was it purchased? Why is your wife
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    wanting to leave you? How do you expect to give any kind of advice if you cannot give proper information for
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    give proper information for us to respond properly
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