7. This Marriage Stinks!
Let this be a lesson to those who decide to jump into marriage too quickly. Twenty-three-year-old Yara Saad Al-Din and 31-year-old Aysar Ali decided to marry just two weeks after they met on an airplane returning to Egypt. After just two months, she began to notice that something didn’t smell quite right. Unfortunately, the source of the unpleasant odor was her new husband. When she confronted him about it, he claimed he was unable to bathe due to a skin disease and on top of that, he was allergic to water. The skin disease story turned out to be true, but the water allergy turned out to be a lie. After he refused to grant her a divorce, she was able to obtain a khol’a which is an agreement under Islamic law that grants a woman a divorce if she is willing to surrender some of her financial rights.