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The Midlife Crisis: New Cause Of Divorce

Posted by Maureen Dempsey on Mon, 02/25/2008 - 2:15pm

A midlife crisis is the cause for:

a) a shiny new sports car in the driveway
b) your husband’s suspicious fascination with the new (younger) girl at work
c) a divorce
d) all of the above

If you answered "d," you are correct! We all know that the first two answers are no-brainers, but a recent article in the Guardian newspaper reported that growing numbers of divorcing couples in the U.K. are citing "midlife crisis" as a cause for separation.

"Midlife crisis" ranks second, just behind extramarital affairs, for reasons for filing and has risen from just 2% in 2006 to 14% for 2007.

Bonus fact: In 93% of midlife cases, the man was the one having the crisis. Surprise, surprise!

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