@John5097 @Jessie141 That is one thing to keep in mind- in the "olden days" furniture was hand-made and built sturdy, was passed down through the generations, and could last for hundreds of years. These days a lot of stuff isn't really well made - things are mass produced, don't have a really long life span and break at some point whether someone has abused it in some way or not. The furniture may look nice, but the inner construction is not of high quality materials. Something may look like solid wood to the untrained eye, but a carpenter can take one look at it and know that it's pressboard covered in a thin wood veneer. So unless something is relatively new, it could be ready to break at some point and all it takes is someone heavy to plunk themselves down on it and something snaps.
Of course, that doesn't excuse a guest from not letting the host know about something breaking during their stay, or claiming it was broken when they arrived, but just that it's not always a matter of the guest abusing something.