--- title: German Man Going Through Divorce Cuts Belongings in Half description: A viral video claims a German man getting a divorce from his wife has cut their belongings in half and is selling them on eBay canonical: https://time.com/3928145/german-man-divorce-ebay-video-half/ author: Olivia B. 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Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jun 19, 2015 3:10 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jun 19, 2015 3:10 PM UTC A viral video on [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHLg%5F9DGbSg) appears to show a German man cutting everything he and his wife own in half because they are splitting up. In the clip, uploaded by the user “Der Juli,” a man saws a TV screen, wicker chair, iPhone, bed and even a car in half. The video’s description, written in German, roughly translates to: “Thank you for 12 ‘beautiful years,’ Laura! You’ve really earned half. Greetings also to my successor.” Whether the video is real or an elaborate prank made with some skillful editing, it has gotten the internet’s attention, racking up more than 1.5 million views since it was posted on June 16. An eBay page started by an account with the same name “der.juli” [suggests](http://www.ebay.de/sch/der.juli/m.html?item=201368555436&ssPageName=STRK%3AMESELX%3AIT&rt=nc&%5Ftrksid=p2047675.l2562) that he is selling the split items online. ### Here Are the Funniest Error Pages on the Web  Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton  Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders  Rick Santorum Rick Santorum  Google Google  imgur imgur  Flickr Flickr  Spotify Spotify  Godaddy GoDaddy  Snapchat Snapchat  Vox Vox  Reddit Reddit  4chan 4chan  Mashable Mashable  Blizzard Blizzard  Someecards Someecards  Ask.com Ask.com  Healthcare.gov Healthcare.gov  Funny Or Die Funny or Die  GOP GOP  Democratic National Committee Democratic National Committee  Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton  The Week The Week  The New Yorker The New Yorker  Independent Journal Review Independent Journal Review  U-T San Diego U-T San Diego  Daily News New York Daily News  Huffington Post The Huffington Post  Lego LEGO  Huwshimi Huwshimi ## Transcript Where I grew up in Germany, I believed that it's the stork who brings babies to this world. Mother, is it wrong to feel [ MUSIC ] Warm and affectionate when you, when you're with a boy you really like? No dear, it is not wrong. My mom had no problem talking about it. She just said, wait 'til you get married. Maybe, like, when I was in first grade. Around fifth grade. I was about seventh grade. I do remember my mother and grandmother wanted to tell me about the facts of life. I was playing hide and go seek with my friends. Someone got rid of all their, their whole stash of pornos. Like, [ LAUGH ] [ UNKNOWN ]. I pick it up and I'm just like, this is the greatest thing I ever seen. I didn't know that I would talk about sex for my entire professional life. And now I'm 86, and I'm still talking about relationships and sex . >> I remember accidentally coming across what sex was really like on the Playboy channel when we finally got cable TV [ LAUGH ] [ MUSIC ] Sexuality education has to start at a very early age. Your belly button, it's too small. Mary, the baby doesn't come out of your navel. Let me tell you how it is. The first time I had a talk talk was in seventh grade health class. My father was so old- fashioned that. It was just I got sort of Andy back before. He would be like go talk to your brother, and he'd go, go talk to Mom. Asians don't really get that talk. It's just the, the conversations aren't there. You know, like the story of the birds and the bees I don't know that story. I don't know, I still don't know what that is. [ LAUGH ] They told me you could get pregnant by eating watermelon seeds and drinking water and eating dirt. Which I did [ LAUGH ] throwing up, I was throwing up mud when my mom got home. When the sperm and the egg get together they make a tiny person. So tiny that not even the mother knows it's there for the first few weeks. When I was a child I just thought, oh it's bad. It's bad unless you get married. And now that I'm adult I understand there's nothing wrong with that. Good sexuality education. That starts when a child is growing up is going to be beneficial for that child for the rest of his or her life. Coming from a Pentecostal Christian family, I was definitely. Not only challenging to be trying to find myself, around my sexuality and my gender identity. But I just remember always feeling this conflict of being very curious about it but then feeling very very dirty and just wrong at the same time. mom, you know, taught us a lot about self esteem and self love and it comes here first inside. Not to run off and find it in someone else. I think that when you, when you make something so taboo to somebody, you make them even more curious about it. I've realized that this really, ultimately, is about companionship and love and togetherness. I think if they say, okay, it's okay for us to talk about sex, I think they'll think, oh, more people are gonna have it. It's okay to be a sexual being. I don't think we talk enough about trust and sex. We talk a lot about love and sex and of course we want to say oh I love you, I love you and that's all that matters. But no, we also have to trust one another. And if you don't trust somebody then don't make yourself that vulnerable, which we do. In sex we're very vulnerable to one another. 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