A Company Is Now Selling Couples A 'Prenup House' That Can Be Split In Two If You Get Divorced
Dailymail – [O]ne firm has set out to help divorcees avoid a real estate battle with a new design that easily splits the home in two – and lets them sail away from each other.
Called Prenuptial Housing, this floating house consists of two independent structures that separate if the couple should split up, resulting in two equal units that can float away from each other.
The idea for the ‘break up’ home was conceived by Omar Kbiri, co-founder of Maak, who had the revelation while looking for a new home with his girlfriend.
‘With the increasing number of divorces each year, our concept is – regrettably – becoming more and more relevant,’ said Kbiri, who is also a self-proclaimed PR and pop culture expert.
‘I especially like the fact that we can stabilize the home front during an otherwise very hectic time.’
Nothing says “stabilize the home front” like snapping your house in half and sailing away from each other into singlehood. But for as crazy as it sounds, overall I’m not mad at the concept. It’s like having a Transformer at your disposal to get you out of any shitty relationship situation, one quick hit of a few latches and you’re free. There’s an inherent cynicism to building something designed to be broken apart but maybe that’s just what the world is now, you’ve got to build ejector seats into every situation just to get people back to their safe space. If anything, I’m shocked it took a company this long to turn that cynicism into commerce. The Three Little Pigs planted the seeds for effortless home deconstruction decades ago, how no one thought to use that technology for divorce until today is a failure on all our parts.
At the same time, I’m what some 30-something people might call “commitmentphobic” because the idea of divorce horrifies me and yet I still can’t imagine actually buying this thing. My parents fought all the time but didn’t get divorced until I was 25 and it was one of those “Yeah you guys really should have gotten divorced when I was five, shit sucked” situations and, as a result, I’m extremely disposable with relationships that seem anything less than perfect while also being afraid of being stuck with someone just because you put a ring on it. And even with all that coloring and jaded world views, I can’t imagine a universe in which I’m dating a chick whom I’m ready to take the plunge with and go “Babe I love you but let’s get the breakaway prenup house, just to be safe.” So I’m not sure who the market for this house really is. I’m sure it exists somewhere but if it’s not appealing to me when this is my general view on relationships then I’ve got no clue who’d actually buy it: