Reasons Women ask for Divorce

• Incompatibility and unhappiness
• Husband’s alcohol, physical and verbal abuse
• Husband’s infidelity
• Disagreements about religion and children
• Their own alcohol abuse
• Their own infidelity
• Their need for independence

Reasons Men ask for Divorce

• Drug abuse and/or mental illness
• Multiple differences (religion, communication, in-laws)
• His alcohol and physical abuse
• Wife’s independence and infidelity
• Incompatibility and unhappiness
• Wife’s alcohol abuse
• His infidelity

Men also cite “sexual problems” three times more often than women and women cite an “affair” twice as often as men.

 

• Divorce worldwide occurs most common in the fourth year of marriage or between ages 25 and 29.
• More than one million people every year get a divorce.
• 40% of men and 50% of women getting a divorce are less than 30. Between 10% and 15% of people aged 35 to 55 are currently divorced at least one time.
• About 20% of marriages last less than 5 years, 33% last less than 10 years, and 40% last less than 15 years.
• Recent estimates for the U.S. are that 65% to 70% of all new marriages will fail.
• Children of divorced parents are more divorce-prone.
• 80% of divorced people will get remarried, usually 3 or 4 years after their divorce.