A WOMAN is crying foul over her husband's "four rules", saying they have made her live the past 10 years more like a widow than a married woman, China Press reported.
The 40-year-old housewife, who only wished to be known as Madam Lim, said her husband prohibited her from staying with him, divorcing him or meeting up with him, and she could not see her daughter alone.
Lim said her husband insisted that he did not want a divorce and only wanted to focus on his career.
The daily quoted her as saying that her husband came home from an overseas business trip one day and moved in with his parents in Singapore.
"He said he did not want to be tied up by the family because he wanted to focus on his career. I took our daughter to plead with him to come home but he has not," she said.
Lim, who has been married for 14 years, said her husband rarely contacted her and only gave her a RM1,000 (S$428) monthly allowance.
"Three years ago, he bought a luxurious condominium and took our daughter to stay with him, leaving me alone," she claimed.
This is probably not the first nor will it be last. Yes, PRCs have come and got the guys to divorce their wives and marry them. But we all know that there are many men who married wives in China and after having kids with them, take the kids and actually abandon their wives and not even allowing their wives visiting rights. The problem is that they were married in China and the Singapore law does not work for the PRC women here. It is also a fact that the husands will always win custody of the children even if there is divorce because they always argue that the women are in no position to support the children. The wives are never given permanent visa and always forced to go home when their visa expires as their hubbies will refuse to apply for one, so these .....