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Video Blog 2015 November Happy Couples are... Divorced Couples?
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Happy Couples are... Divorced Couples?

Posted By The Graves Law Firm || 16-Nov-2015

If you see a happy married couple walking down the street, odds are that they’re heading down a path to divorce. That’s what the figures from a study done by Brigham Young University of 22,000 married couples in the U.K.

Their divorce statistics show some interesting results: Only 9 percent of divorces were from "high-conflict" marriages — those with unhappiness and plenty of fighting. Thirty-one percent of divorces claimed "unhappy couples" — unhappiness with little or no quarreling. The largest percentage — 60 percent — of divorces came from the "low-conflict" couples — otherwise happy marriages with little to no fighting.

So why on earth do so many apparently happy couples split up? They happen mostly because of things coming out of the blue. It could be an affair, an onset of depression or, depressingly, just someone coming to terms with the face they’re unhappy in the marriage or with life.

“Remember that these are not people who might be happy with life but just not with their relationship,” said the study’s author, Ben Hansen, said. “They are specifically asked about their relationship. If they were unhappy, secretly or not, there is a box marked unhappy. They could tick that if they wanted, but they don’t. They tick one of the happy boxes.”

And if you think it’s just U.K. married couples who have the issues, think again. A similar study done here found that while only 15 percent of U.S. couples headed for divorce could be described as high-conflict, 66 percent were low-conflict.

For more: Divorces That Come Out of the Blue (FamilyStudies.Org)

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