DeAnne
Mike CrowlSplit down the middle
January 21st 2007 08:56
Chana and Simon Taub have been bickering over getting a divorce for nearly two years, but neither will move out of the spacious three-storey house they own in Brooklyn.
So, to make sure they stay in their own separate parts of the house, a few weeks ago Simon had a white drywall partition built in the middle of the ground floor. The couple are already separated on the second floor by a door which Chana has bolted shut with a large piece of wood.
Like most bitter divorcing couples the accusations fly – with and without substance. He claims she has 300 – or is it only 299? - pairs of shoes trapped on his side of the house. She says that’s a lie, to make her look like the Imelda Marcos of the Orthodox Jewish Community.
Chana says that Simon’s been monitoring her through strategically placed video cameras. Simon says the surveillance is mutual, and points to cameras on her side. Chana claims she doesn't have control of those. She says he’s bugged her phones, though he reckons he doesn't care who she talks to.
He says she thinks he has more money than he has – his business went bankrupt in the late 1990s – but she claims she’s not interested in money. She’s divorcing him because he’s treated her like a servant for years.
It's not as if either of the Taubs has no place else to go. Just two doors down from the house with the new wall, they have another residence. But stubbornness, spite and mutual love of the home, keeps them still under one roof.
So, to make sure they stay in their own separate parts of the house, a few weeks ago Simon had a white drywall partition built in the middle of the ground floor. The couple are already separated on the second floor by a door which Chana has bolted shut with a large piece of wood.
Like most bitter divorcing couples the accusations fly – with and without substance. He claims she has 300 – or is it only 299? - pairs of shoes trapped on his side of the house. She says that’s a lie, to make her look like the Imelda Marcos of the Orthodox Jewish Community.
Chana says that Simon’s been monitoring her through strategically placed video cameras. Simon says the surveillance is mutual, and points to cameras on her side. Chana claims she doesn't have control of those. She says he’s bugged her phones, though he reckons he doesn't care who she talks to.
He says she thinks he has more money than he has – his business went bankrupt in the late 1990s – but she claims she’s not interested in money. She’s divorcing him because he’s treated her like a servant for years.
It's not as if either of the Taubs has no place else to go. Just two doors down from the house with the new wall, they have another residence. But stubbornness, spite and mutual love of the home, keeps them still under one roof.
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C'est la vie, mon ami, or 'l'amour'. Hatred replaces love until the both are replaced with indifference.
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