by John Asante

I swear, every day I check Facebook, I see another friend who just got engaged or married. No jealousy on this end... Yet. And the ones who've inched steps closer to matrimony bicker just like their parents. As much as I'd love to step in and stop the unnecessary comments, it's not really my place for commenting. In France, though, the little, domestic spats are taken a bit more seriously.

Prime Minister Francois Fillon is putting forth a law punishing husbands, wives, and cohabitating couples for "psychological violence." Apparently, the bill looks to cover everything from nagging to false accusations of infidelity, to sustained campaigns of verbal abuse, to a failure to supply the correct answer to the question: Does my bum look big in this?" says The Daily Telegraph

But Ceri Radford warns that France's involvement in domestic disputes may be a stickier situation than intended:

It's hard to argue with that: abusive relationships of any kind ruin lives, and a straightforward campaign to stigmatise this sort of behaviour and encourage its victims to seek help is eminently sensible. But by taking that further step of criminalising harsh words, the French government risks turning law enforcement into the policing of morality.

Proving emotional damage appears to be much trickier to prove than they physical kind. Are these disputes just normal, day-to-day tifts or arguments leading to cruel actions? Roughly 162 men and women had their lives ended by their spouses, in addition to to hundreds of injuries due to bouts of domestic violence. Quite a juxtaposition at hand, since the land of wine and cheese was recently touted by International Living as the country with the best quality of life in the world.