Jordanian man divorces wife three times over phone bills

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AMMAN (AFP) - A Jordanian man has divorced his wife for a third, and final, time in three years, accusing her of ruining him financially because she spent hours talking on the phone, Petra news agency reported.


"My wife would talk on the phone for hours with her sisters and girlfriends to discuss recipes, clothes and the latest fashion and I used to pay the monthly bill without complaint," the man identified as Abu Sami told Petra.


But things got out of hand when Abu Sami's wife began using the family landline phone to dial international numbers to participate in games run by Arab satellite channels, the man complained.


"The phone bills represented threefold my salary," he said, adding that this prompted the first divorce.

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