BBC: Why the pandemic is causing spikes in break-ups and divorces — "What’s been different is the significant increase in the number of women initiating divorces, with 76% of new cases coming from female clients..."

swmorgan77 · 2021-01-25T14:39:46+00:00

My understanding is 70% was the norm. So 76% hardly seems like a "big increase". Would be interesting to know what's driving that extra 6%. Probably dudes losing jobs.

Aquilam · 2021-01-25T06:52:49+00:00

Women have been initiating most of divorces long before the pandemic. In some places it’s close to 80%

bitcoin-optimist · 2021-01-25T02:27:15+00:00

Lot of good comments in /r/mgtow (backup)
Backup from the BBC
One telling quote in the article

For other couples, the increase in mental health problems linked to the pandemic is playing a role in break-ups. When Marie, a 43-year-old editor in Amsterdam, caught Covid-19 in March, it made her partner’s anxiety disorder “spiral out of control”. She says, “I had to handle everything while we were quarantined – for almost a month – and it was absolutely exhausting." A victim of “long Covid”, by July she was still finding it a struggle to organise her time beyond “the bare essentials” of part-time work and looking after their four-year-old. “Unfortunately, our relationship was one of the elements that demanded too much effort on my part: emotionally, mentally and physically. So, I asked him for a separation. It just felt like a matter of life or death.”

Ajit66 · 2021-04-09T10:10:11+00:00

Filing for divorce is easier than answering uncomfortable questions on infidelity. Cheating spouses are unable to be with their Affair Partners due to covid restrictions and are going crazy, stuck to their phones and messaging, getting discovered.