Lack of coffee can lead to divorce

The solution: here

Or so says a Turkish urban legend that has gone viral. A couple had a habit: every morning when they got up, the husband would make coffee for his wife. One day, however, his sheets got stuck to him and she started to get restless. When she finally woke up, the couple realized that they had run out of coffee, which increased her nerves.

He had to go out in search of coffee and also a combination of spices, since at that time, coffee was drunk spiced with cinnamon, cardamom, anise, saffron and other ingredients, according to the drinker's taste.

During his shopping, while roasting his coffee and spice mixture, half of it fell into the fire and burned hopelessly, so time was passing and, at home, his partner was on the verge of losing her temper. On his return, finally, the longed-for coffee was prepared and it turned out to be one of the best the couple had ever had. We presume he said something like "Are you happy now, honey?", to which she replied "Yes, but for next time, remember that lack of coffee can lead to divorce".

Like all legends, the coffee divorce legend tells a truth with a dose of fiction: we all know that missing coffee when you feel like it most can result in a morning conflict that could easily have been avoided with more foresight and organization or, on the contrary, by leaving your monthly coffee supply in the hands of professionals.

But the truth is that the scene of an effective divorce because of a lack of coffee could have actually occurred, even if there are no documentary records because, at the time, not in all cases it was necessary to go through the court to dissolve a marriage. One of the most common grounds for divorce was that of insolvency: if a husband could not take care of his wife's living expenses, she could request an annulment of the couple. It would not be unreasonable to think that if there was a lack of coffee in the house, a staple of life at the time (and now), it was a sign that the domestic economy was failing and that marital dissatisfaction was enormous.