99-year-old divorces wife after he discovered 1940s affair

[Jazzy]

An Italian couple are to become the world's oldest divorcees, after the 99-year-old husband found that his 96-year-old wife had an affair in the 1940s.



The Italian man, identified by lawyers in the case only as Antonio C, was rifling through an old chest of drawers when he made the discovery a few days before Christmas.



Notwithstanding the time that had elapsed since the betrayal, he was so upset that he immediately confronted his wife of 77 years, named as Rosa C, and demanded a divorce.



Guilt-stricken, she reportedly confessed everything but was unable to persuade her husband to reconsider his decision.



She wrote the letters to her lover during a secret affair in the 1940s, according to court papers released in Rome this week.



The couple are now preparing to split, despite the ties they forged over nearly eight decades – they have five children, a dozen grandchildren and one great-grand child.



Full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...es-wife-after-he-discovered-1940s-affair.html



This, to me, is so sad. All these years together and he can't find it in his heart to forgive her.

 

[alan@stgiles]

So sad

All them years together, surely could work it out, especially at the ages of them.

 

[Temerit]

People can be so inconsiderate (anyone who cheats).



But at that point in life it wouldn't be worth it for me if I was the guy.



My question is why she never got rid of that stuff.

 

[Cranos]

I'm not sure that it's less painful because it happened a long time ago... I can understand where he's coming from.

 

[Bluezone777]

She might have just forgot about it after all these years. Who is anyone to judge another for their mistakes? We all make them but it's not the mistake that really matters but what one learns from them. Perhaps she is no different then as she is now but I somehow doubt it. She made a mistake then but the fact she never left him suggests that she learned from it and saw it for the mistake that it was and stuck by her husband after all these years. It seems this man can't see that hence why he acts the way he does. The thing is that one day he might get judged for a mistake he made long ago and perhaps if that happens will be the day he sees what he is doing from his wife's perspective.