Top Reasons For Divorce

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🗓️ 16 November 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to my morning monologue.
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0:25.4	Do you want to know the reasons for divorce? Yes, good. I'm glad you said yes. Okay. Great article
0:31.0	in Marriage.com, advice, divorce, 10 most common reasons for divorce. You know all of these. You don't want to know some of them
0:41.5	because it means you'll have to change how you behave. But you do know all of these. But I'm going to
0:49.0	go over them again. Good article. There was research, the Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture,
0:56.0	data from 4,000 divorced adults identified the top 10 reasons for divorce.
1:02.5	So I thought it would be nice to boom, boom, boom, go through them for you and with you.
1:10.8	Number one, ext extra marital affair. Number one reason for divorce. 20 to 40% of the
1:21.1	breakdown of most marriages end in divorce when one of you has screwed around with somebody else.
1:30.3	The reasons why people cheat aren't as cut and dry as you would think,
1:36.3	because you get angry and you stop looking.
1:38.8	So they named some of the reasons.
1:41.2	Anger and resentment are common underlying reasons for cheating. Resentment means some
1:49.2	ongoing behavior or attitudes that are just unsatisfying and never seem to get resolved,
1:56.7	along with differences in sexual appetite and lack of emotional intimacy.
2:05.9	I remember had a high-class hooker who went straight.
2:11.3	I said that when she was a call girl,
2:16.8	that most of the men came for conversation and the sense of emotional intimacy
2:23.7	and not so much for the sex.
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