A woman in Ankang, China, has divorced her paralysed husband and remarried his best friend so that they can take care of her ex-husband together.
In the report, British tabloid, Daily Mail, says Xie Xiping has been caring for her husband Xu Xihan since he was paralysed in a mining accident in 2002.
Originally reported by Chinese tabloid, People’s Daily Online, it was said Xu Xihan was working in a mine in Henan province in 2002 when a boulder hit him and became paralysed from the waist down.
According to the report, he and his wife have two children together, and when he became incapacitated she never abandoned him.
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However, he got disturbed when neighbours told him that they thought his wife would leave him within months, and began to persuade her to divorce him and be happy with someone else, the report says.
After a while she gave in to pressure from him, divorced him and married his colleague Liu Zongkui.
And in 2012 she bore her new husband a son. The whole family are said to be living under one roof.
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