While most of the world rejoiced when the Soviet-built wall dividing East and West Berlin was torn down in 1986, a woman in Sweden was horrified. She says it was a mutilation of her husband. Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer claims she has been married to the st

The 54-year-old has been diagnosed with objectophilia, attraction to one particular object.

She said she fell in love with the Berlin Wall in childhood, when she saw ‘his’ pictures.

Theirs was a long-distance romance, as both were not frequent travellers.

The two eventually got ‘married’ in 1979, when the woman took the family name Berliner-Mauer, which means ‘Berlin Wall’ in German.

Somehow Mrs Berliner-Mauer got over the demolition of her ‘husband’ by ‘frenzied mobs’.

She now lives in a small village in northern Sweden, bur remains faithful to her life-long passion.