Bhubaneswar: Planning to get hitched? But are you and your partner compatible? This question assumes significance at a time when several instances of spouses killing their better-halves have made headlines for all wrong reasons. Be it infidelity, intolerance or fit of rage, the reasons for murder are not the same always. But what’s a common thread in all such crimes is an unhappy marriage.
Thus comes the need to check compatibility than to be sorry later or landing up in jail. And there are several ways to do so. Ask a marriage counsellor, your very own friends and family or the neighbour next-door, everyone has his or her killer way of testing compatibility. In midst of hundreds of options, you will also come across a trending testing idea, the IKEA Marriage Test, by entrepreneur and author Sahil Bloom. He claims to have the ultimate test that couples should take together before they take the plunge. It is the Ikea marriage test.
Everyone should do this before they get married… pic.twitter.com/LDr5OO1Pla
— Sahil Bloom (@SahilBloom) March 29, 2025
“The IKEA Marriage Test Before you marry someone, go to IKEA together and a buy a piece of furniture. Bring it home and build it. If you can successfully navigate that entire process without wanting to kill each other, you’re ready to get married,” he wrote on X.
What’s the test? According to Bloom, the New York Times bestselling author of ‘The 5 Types of Wealth,’ couples should go to Ikea and buy a piece of furniture. Before getting married, they should try to assemble the furniture together. The author claims if the couple can assemble it together without wanting to kill each other, then they are through the test. Such couples are well prepared to navigate the complexities of marriage, the author feels. IKEA is a multinational conglomerate founded in Sweden that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture, household goods, and various related services.
When the author posted this idea to avoid a stifling marriage on social media, users reacted to it citing various opinions and their own experiences. “It took my parents two years to choose a lounge. They did not have a very good marriage,” wrote an user on Reddit.
“Conquer the chaos together to build a foundation of teamwork and laughter,” wrote another user on X.
The upsetting trend of murderous spouses
Recent reports indicate a troubling trend of husbands killing their wives and vice versa across the country. In India, a research shows that around 275 husbands are killed by their wives annually, while an average of 225 wives are murdered by their husbands, reported the OpIndia.
Here are some recent cases of spouse killing the partner:
- In Jaipur, a vegetable vendor’s wife strangled her husband and then set the body on fire.
- A newly married woman hired a contract killer to get rid of her husband in UP’s Auraiya district.
- In Bengaluru, a 37-year-old real estate businessman was allegedly murdered by his wife and mother-in-law.
- In Meerut, a woman and her lover stabbed her husband to death and then chopped up her husband into 15 pieces and hide the dismembered parts in a drum filled with cement.
- In Bengaluru, a techie killed his wife in fit of rage and stuffed the body in a suitcase before fleeing.
- In Delhi, a man killed his wife with the help of his landlord and friend and later the decomposed body was found in the bed box.
