Social media the ‘fastest-growing threat to marriage’

Social media and the internet are the fastest-growing problems facing Irish marriages and relationships, according to the country’s largest marriage advisory agency.

Accord, the Catholic marriage advisory agency, says an increasing number of people are more concerned with posting on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram or chatting to friends on online forums than spending time talking or socialising with their husband, wife, or partner. This behaviour is distancing one from the other and causing mistrust and resentment.

There has been much talk in recent months about parents needing to teach their children how to behave online. However relationship counsellors at Accord think adults also have a lot to learn.