Divorce caused by materialistic issues

[zouzd]

This is my first post after few years of being absent from Loveshack; i am just curious to know different causes of divorce across cultures.

In the the unstable area I am live in (middle east) , and the economic issues; a poll indicated that 70-80% of divorces are money/income related ...

From those he experienced a divorce or around someone did , is this also the same in western countries ? 

 

[Gebidozo]

I had more than one divorce, and many of my friends have divorced as well. There have been absolutely no cases of materialistic divorces related to money or income.

Most of the divorces I’m familiar with were initiated by the wives.

Many of them occurred because the wife got sick of something bad the husband was doing, and realized she’d be happier without him.

Very commonly the husbands were too controlling, cheated, or stopped showing affection to their wives. 

Several divorces occurred because one of the partners started having feelings for another person, mostly after a short affair with that person.

One divorce case I know was because the wife discovered that the husband could have no kids, and that was a dealbreaker to her.

Another divorce happened because the wife turned out to be a drug addict with unpredictable behavior.

 

 

 

[Sanch62]

If you're just looking for statistics, you can plug your question above into google, and AI will answer it for you.

If you have something personal you'd like to discuss, welcome back, and I hope we can help. 

[Els]

I mean, yes and no.

In Western countries it's a bit less common for someone to straight up say that they are leaving because of money. When you dig a bit deeper, though, you still find that money is a common baseline issue for many of them. And that's understandable, because we all need money to some extent. Money buys you a roof over your head, food on the table, leisure time, the ability to pay a therapist or to get medical help, so on and so forth. It's a lot harder to maintain a stable relationship when you are homeless, hungry, working 2 jobs, not able to afford medical treatment... even the threat of any of these things looming in the future can be incredibly detrimental.

So no, it's not usually the only reason, but it can definitely be a root cause. More isn't necessarily better as long as you're over a certain threshold (which is statistically known for many countries). But if the household income is below that threshold, yes you will certainly be at much higher risk of splitting up.

Edited November 14 by Els

[basil67]

I don't think the answer is as binary as you'd like it to be.

For example, wne of the reasons I left my ex was that he was so focussed on paying off the mortgage (we were way ahead), that he refused to go out and do nice things, such as cheap date nights or go to the movies.  

Would you classify this as a money issue or a lack of attention to the relationship?  

[MsJayne]

The high rate of divorce in Western cultures couldn't be attributed to just one main cause, there's many causes. If want accurate numbers you could look up statistics for each country on Google.