Russian Poker Story Provides Good Relationship Lessons

Women who think their husbands are insensitive might want to read the story of Russian husband Andrei Karpov. So desperate he was to stay in a poker game, he put his wife up as a stake after he'd run out of money.

The story gets more twisted:

His unusual stake didn’t bring him any luck and he eventually lost the game to his opponent Sergey Brodov. Brodov then went to Karpov’s house to claim his winnings. Even more surprisingly, Tatiana, Karpov’s then wife, agreed with the idea instead of point-blank refusing to be used as winnings in a poker game.

As a result, she divorced Karpov and later married Brodov and has not regretted her decision.

She later said:

"It was humiliating and I was utterly ashamed. But as soon as my ex-husband did that I knew I had to leave him."

Of course the real lesson in this turning-of the-tables story is for husbands: If you let your addiction (poker, alcohol, work, etc.) lead to you taking your relationship for granted, then don't be surprised if you lose it as quickly as you lose a hand of poker.