My aunt once fed her (now ex) husband wet dog food at a cocktail party. She put it on a fancy little plate, mushed it up, and garnished it with parsely and water crackers. He ate a bunch of it before he noticed her laughing.

The court heard that the couple had been married for 21 years but in recent years their relationship "had hit an all time low.

I hope that was the low point.

The wisdom of every old junkyard dog is never to eat from a hand that has any reason to wish you ill.

He said Mr Martin had routinely questioned his wife's parental skills

Shouldn't that be maternal skills?

Reminds me of a cartoon I once saw. Two flies. The wife fly serves dinner to the husband fly, who looks at his steaming plate and says "Not this shit again".