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Behind the Aegis

(54,865 posts)
Tue Aug 3, 2021, 09:56 PM Aug 2021

Bi man ordered to pay ex-wife "emotional damages" for coming out... but that got overturned

A judge has overturned a ruling that would have forced a bisexual man in Spain to pay his ex-wife for emotional damages – even though they divorced over a decade ago.

Javier Vilalta’s former spouse sued after she found out he had sex with a man before they were married. She accused him of “hiding his homosexuality” and won a monetary judgment for €10,000 for each year they were married.

The ex-wife also wanted the marriage annulled, saying he used her “as a social refuge” despite his protestations to the court that “I wasn’t gay at that time. I had had a brief homosexual experience.”

“Even if we admit that Javier was in a relationship with a man in the past, in any case, there is no reason why a bisexual person cannot have a happy marriage,” his attorney told the court.

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What the actual fuck?! Thank goodness it was overturned. What a bizarre story.

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Bi man ordered to pay ex-wife "emotional damages" for coming out... but that got overturned (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Aug 2021 OP
These sorts of stories are confusing for me in terms of what I should feel ... Hugh_Lebowski Aug 2021 #1
 

Hugh_Lebowski

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1. These sorts of stories are confusing for me in terms of what I should feel ...
Tue Aug 3, 2021, 10:14 PM
Aug 2021

I'm happy to learn the proper response is a simple 'wtaf, bizarre?!'

Thus not intimating whether, in one's own opinion, one side or the other is in the wrong.

Putting this lesson in my toolkit for sure

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