A 50-year-old Saudi woman asked for divorce after her husband lifted her face veil while she was sleeping, local press reported.
For 30 years, the wife said she never showed her face to her husband in conformity with the tradition of her native village near the south western Saudi city of Khamis Mushayt.
"After all these years, he tries to commit such a big mistake," the wife told Saudi newspaper Al-Riyadh, after she left the house in total disbelief.
This is not the first case of husbands who have not seen their wives' faces in decades.
In the past Al Arabiya has reported the case of Ali al-Qahtani, whose wife had been wearing the face veil for the entire ten years of their marrage. When he tried to take it off, she threatened to leave and only decided to stay after he swore never to try again.
Hassan Al-Atibi threatened to marry another woman if his wife didn't show him her face. The woman nominated one of her friends who doesn't observe this tradition as a possible new wife for him, saying this would be better than her showing her face.
And neither the husband or children of Om Rabea al-Gahdaray, 70, have ever seen her face. Al-Gahdaray says it is a family tradition, also followed by mother and sisters, which her husband accepted and never tried to change.
When asked how she could have kids without her husband ever seeing her face, she replied: "Marriage is about love, not faces."
15 comments:
I don't want to beat around the bush, but some things are better left private.
I don't think there is anything that can prepare me for that . . .oy.
I think I'll skip lunch today.
That a still from an old "Leave It to Beaver" episode...?
I you were mad enough to muff-dive into that you'd probably never find your way out alive.
The brambles.
If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now ...
Not on my MILF list, for sure.
You gotta admit, she's got some pretty nice melons.
You know what we've gotta do here is ask Sir Publius Platypus if he'd do when he's good and drunk on a Saturday night.
In fact, we ought to insist he writes a post about it.
By the way, here's a thought: Any man who COULD do that is WAY more of a man than me.
Hey, ain't that last one Zawahiri's third wife?
She is a former Taliban miss world contender
A two beer gal - no - make that a twenty beer gal.
Is that a bush, or a crown of thorns?
That's the first time I've ever seen hair down there.
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