Wife number 25 brings contentment »

Posted By JamesMarcus 10 months ago in News

After 24 failed marriages, a 49-year-old porter in eastern Nepal says that he has finally found happiness in his latest union. The simple reason is that the landless laborer's latest marriage seems to be working out, unlike the previous ones.

Ramchandra Katuwal, of Khandbari municipality in Sankhuwasava, and his wife Sharada recently celebrated their seventh wedding anniversary. And for Mr Katuwal, the journey to conjugal bliss was paved with pitfalls and potholes. He first got married at age 26. From then onwards his life veered from one disastrous marriage to another. His first wife set a precedent followed by many of her successors: she eloped with her lover. "My second wife also ran away," he said, "and the third one too." From the succession of wives who came and went over a 16-year period, Mr Katuwal says that he can only remember nine of them clearly. But 25 seems to have been his lucky number.


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    sandmcleaning10 months ago

    I have a relative that has been married 3 times but only has 1 ex and the ex has married for the 13th time.

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    BronxBomber10 months ago

    You think after the first and second wife that would make the guy more reticent about matrimony. I'm a bachelor, and a bachelor never makes the same mistake...once.

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    molly124410 months ago

    I had an aunt who was married 15 times, only 13 of them legit. The other 2 times one or both of the parties was still married to someone else. Once she and her new husband returned from the honeymoon separately, once each of them discovered that the other had no money!

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      volcano18810 months ago

      Nepal is not a large country. Where did he find all these women? He probably married a few more than once and that's why he can't remember them clearly.

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      lynpeterson4u10 months ago

      SOUNDS SUSPICIOUS TO ME---SO MANY WIFES "RUNNING AWAY"----OH REALLY ? DID THEY ALL REALLY RUN OFF WITH SOMEONE ELSE BECAUSE HE WAS ABUSIVE OR DID HE REALLY KILL THEM OFF AND THEN FINALLY REALIZED THAT HE WAS GOING TO HAVE TO QUIT DOING THAT OR OTHERWISE BE ALONE FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE? 25 MISSING BRIDES IN 16 YEARS --- YA GOTTA WONDER, DON'T YA??!!

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      stella414210 months ago

      I have a male friend married 4 times & never celebrated a 1st year anniversery.

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      Will131310 months ago

      2 for me and it was 2 too many... there will be no more Mrs. Will1313's bet on it.....

      well I have always had this strange attraction to Ann Coulter.. so maybe NEVER is too strong...

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      rlewis537010 months ago

      my wife ask me if i would ever cheat on her. said i dont want you why would i have an other one

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        skooterriffic10 months ago

        I dated my husband from June 16, 1978 until we married on October 21 1978. We're still married!!! My brother in law is on marriage number 4, my sister in law is on marriage number 2. I got lucky. There have been thousands of reasons to give up... but thankfully there have been millions of reasons to try again.

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          creativeblister10 months ago

          that's a lotta in-laws...

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            LindaA10 months ago

            Wow! I am only a year older than the guy in the story and hubby and I have been only married ONCE. My husband and I met in high school and have been together for 33 years and married for over 30! We are each other's best friend still.
            I hope the guy in the story finally found love this time around!

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              decibelintent10 months ago

              So, for him, the 25th time is a charm.

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                JovansMom10 months ago

                Ok see a pattern here? Every wife (well most anyway) run off with their lover! Good lord why would ANY one marry someone after they have had ohhh i don't know 4 mates????

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                  bigbustedbabe10 months ago

                  MARRIAGE IS A GREAT INSTITUTION, IF YOU LIKE LIVING IN INSTITUTIONS LOL

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                    ColoradotheBeautiful10 months ago

                    My hubby and I have been married 22 years this Dec - after only knowing each other for 6 weeks before we got married. My Grandmother was married 14 times in her 66 years of life - two of the marriages we did not know about until after her death. Two of the husbands she married-divorced and then remarried after another failed marriage. Her last marriage lasted over 20 years. This woman was a hoot!

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                      kritty10 months ago

                      My Mother has been married 5 times in my 30 yrs of life, the 4th one lasted a long time, but her sister died last february, and mt mother hooked up with her dead sister's husband
                      (my uncle, gross) and 6 months after the death, she divorced again and married her brother in law, and in the process lost her whole family. 5 kids 9 grandkids,everyone. Now guess what, she's moved out of state and she is miserable.. ooooh well.

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                        batatude10 months ago

                        Small peepee

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                          rlewis537010 months ago

                          whos more stupid, him or the women that marry him?

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                            gwmnnova10 months ago

                            And the right says gays are threatening marriage in this country. Hell this 25xs married guy is more of a threat than Elton John and Ellen ever would be.

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                              MsJennaNY10 months ago

                              I married my husband after 2 days. That was 12 years and 2 kids later. Sometimes you just get lucky to groove with someone forever.

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