Mending hearts
HAVING an affair is no longer a leading reason to get divorced. Please don’t read this as a licence to fool around — an affair is probably the most emotionally toxic thing an individual could bring to a relationship — but new research shows that people are not automatically calling their solicitors once an infidelity has been revealed.
The research, compiled by British consultants Grant Thorn and involving 101 family lawyers, shows that just one in four couples cited an affair as their reason for ending the marriage. A bigger reason, at 27%, was that the couple had grown apart. Other reasons included mid-life crises, unreasonable behaviour and financial worries, yet many couples wishing to divorce are waiting until the recession eases off, so that the division of assets is less compromised. There has also been a rise in pre-nups, and a fall in overall divorce rates, as fewer couples choose to marry.
