There is a rise in divorce cases off late but the reasons why couples are moving towards separation are also getting bizarre. Far from emotional or mental being, the reasons for separation have boiled to a person's appearances. In Madhya Pradesh's Bhopal, in two separate incidents, two women want to divorce their respective husbands because of the way they keep their hair. While one woman does not like her husband's ponytail, the other does not want her husband to sport a moustache! So hairstyles have become a reason of separation here! Need a Reason for a Divorce? Here are Some Weird but True Excuses Real People Divorced Their Spouses.

A wife wants to divorce her husband because he keeps a ponytail. The two have been fighting over his choice to keep his hair and their arguments have reached up to a point of getting separated. The wife who is an MBA has been living away from her husband for 6 months because of his pony! The husband belongs to a Brahmin family and when his parents passed away, he sported a pony as per their traditional belief. But a few days later his wife started taunting him to get rid of it. She believes that he doesn't look and her family keeps laughing at him because of his hair. She is adamant that he should either cut his hair or get divorced. Meanwhile, the husband who was the only child of his parents had kept a promise to keep a pony after their demise. He wants to stick to that, but it is not affecting his marriage.

In another case from Katara Hills, a woman who works as an HR wants to divorce her husband, a PO in a bank because of his facial hair. She believes that her husband does not look good with a moustache and thus she cannot click pictures with him. According to local reports, she also said that she cannot take her husband along on social gatherings because he looks bad with his moustache. Weird Reason to Divorce! Ahmedabad Man Alleges Wife Has Beard & Manly Voice, Court Rejects His Divorce Plea.

Both the divorce cases are currently with the counsellor. While the wives want their husbands to match certain standards and looks to be with them, the husbands say these are restrictions on their personal choice of appearance. What's really shocking is that these reasons have actually reached a stage of separation in two families.

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