Malaysia Slows Divorce Rate With Free Honeymoons

Officials in Malaysia are trying to slow down the divorce rate by offering feuding couples a three-day honeymoon package to help bring that spark back into their marriages. After all, what could be more romantic than three days of talking about your faults over a lovely fruit plate, and three drunken nights at the hotel bar watching the love of your life flirt with some random guy on a business trip? Terengganu Welfare Community Development and Women Affairs committee chairman, Ashaari Idris says, "We can understand newlyweds having problems understanding one another, where a slight skirmish could lead to a separation but it is unacceptable for those married more than two decades to file for divorce."

What could possibly go wrong?

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So, um,. what's to stop a couple from faking disagreement to get a free vacation? People fake a lot more than that just for a shot at appearing on the Jerry Springer show...