The divorce rate in Saudi Arabia has emerged to endangered levels these days as compared to previous years. Saudi Arabia is getting at high levels among those countries where the divorce rate is high.

The reason for Divorce: A recent case came to light in which a couple got separated based on a silly reason. A man in Saudi Arabia divorced his wife just because he sent her a text message on WhatsApp (a communication social application on the internet) and the wife saw and ignored the message despite giving any response to it.

As WhatsApp has launched feature of blue ticks now which reveal if the recipient has read your messages. The man got suspicious about activities of his woman, as she might be busy in communication with any other person instead of her husband.

For this reason, he set it as a solid ground to punish her by getting separated to her just in the form of divorcing her. The local media has given a huge coverage to this news due to its novelty.

Husband's Point of View: The husband reported that he was not contented with the routine of his wife. She used to remain busy with her relatives and friends on social media websites and online chatting that she got no time for her husband and children.

According to him, it was not just a WhatsApp message which got ignored by her wife and consequently, he decided to divorce her. He was not in the peace of mind due to the continuous busyness of his wife in such activities.  

Wife's Point of View: The wife, on the other hand, defended her case by saying that she could not respond to the message of her husband as she had to make many phone calls at a time.

Due to this reason, she got busy with phone calls and could not reply to her husband. His husband got angry over it and divorced her in furry.

Is the reason justifiable? Marriage is the union of two souls, two families and getting a divorce based on such silly mistakes is unjustified. The husband based his divorce on the color of tick beneath WhatsApp message which got blue that his wife had seen the message.

If she was busy she could not have read the message, the tick must be gray as it was at the time of sending the message. This is not the first case of divorce-related to social media addiction. The influence of social media websites like Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp has risen in the very short time span.

An opinion poll by Pew research center reported that one out of every four husbands has created problems to his married life due to the invention and emerging trend of smartphones.

Due to colorful and amazing applications, these smartphones have attracted the attention of wives more than their partners. This ignorance trauma suffered by wives has brought many ethical and moral problems in society.

These applications are major sources of isolation in society and for falling graph of human values among their human beings.

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