A resident of Rome begged the police to take him into custody and send him to prison, explaining his unusual desire by the fact that he was extremely tired of his wife.
The 37-year-old Italian father of three children turned to the Tor Bella Monaca police station in the eastern part of Rome. “Put me in jail, otherwise it will end badly,” a desperate man demanded.
The Roman, who had been under house arrest for a number of minor crimes over the past three months, decided that the atmosphere in prison was much more favorable than in his house. The man has eight more months of imprisonment, which he seriously intended to spend behind bars. This decision is explained by constant squabbles and quarrels between spouses. Their neighbors confirmed that the couple categorically cannot get along together despite the fact that they have three children. Only policemen separated the quarrels several times, the other day, they accepted a statement from the unfortunate husband and sent him to serve the rest of his term in prison away from his wife.
By the way, the 37-year-old Roman is far from the first Italian who tried to escape from his second half to prison. 
A resident of the Tuscany region literally begged the authorities to serve his term in prison, and not in the same apartment with his "unbearable" wife, as he had been ordered by the court. The man, who was sentenced to several months of house arrest for drug trafficking, explained that his wife was worse than any prison supervisor: “Living with her is impossible difficult and unbearable,” he complained to law enforcement agencies. The police confirmed that the Italian, who was constantly fighting with his wife, could not stand the onslaught and decided that he would be calmer in prison. The authorities could not refuse a man exhausted by family life and sent him to serve his term in one of the local prisons.
According to the latest statistics provided by the Italian agency ISTAT, recently, residents of the country of Wine and the Sun have become less likely to get divorced. So, in 2012, a little over 88 thousand court decisions were registered on the appointment of the so-called “separazione” - separation of spouses, and only 51 thousand of them ended in divorce, while the remaining couples probably managed to save the marriage.
Statistics showed that since the mid-1990s and up to 2012, the number of divorces in Italy continued to grow rapidly, and in 2012 - for the first time in almost two decades - the number of couples who could not stand all the vicissitudes of family life significantly decreased. And in 2013 their number decreased by another 0.6 percent. But in recent years, the Italians have a new tendency - to get divorced, they travel outside the country. The thing is that in other countries the procedure for obtaining a divorce is much faster than in Italy, where the prerequisite for obtaining a certificate of divorce is separation - the period of separation of spouses for at least 2 years. Among other things, the cost of litigation abroad is also lower.
