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UK Survey: Infidelity is No Longer the Leading Cause of Divorce

A survey of over 100 family attorneys in the United Kingdom has found that the extramarital affair is no longer the leading reason for divorce in the country. Infidelity had been recorded as the leading cause of divorce for the last eight years that the survey has been conducted.

Now, according to the lawyers questioned, the most common reason that clients decided to end their marriage was "no longer feeling in love" and "growing apart." The research found that 27 percent of couples split due to simply growing apart, while about 25 percent of couples ended their relationships because of affairs.

Why are fewer couples divorcing due to infidelity? There could be a number of reasons.

The simplest answer is that fewer affairs are taking place. A more complex answer is that couples are trying harder to survive extramarital affairs and repair their partnership and trust in the wake of infidelity.

Some relationship experts suggest that the larger number of celebrity couples who are working through the pain of extramarital affairs and mending their relationships could be affecting the decisions of others when their own marriages are marred by infidelity.

The survey also found that sixty percent of the divorce lawyers questioned reported an increase in couples drawing up pre-nuptial agreements before saying, "I do."

If you would like to schedule a confidential consultation with a Washington divorce lawyer, contact The Law Offices of Molly B. Kenny today.

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