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The most common reasons given for the breakdown of marriages or live-in partnerships in Britain are communication problems and growing apart, according to analysis by UCL researchers of the latest National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal-3).
[...] Natsal is the largest scientific study of sexual health lifestyles in Britain. It is carried out by UCL, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and NatCen Social Research [sic]
Natsal is run every 10 years, and includes a representative sample of men and women resident in Britain aged between 16 and 74. Natsal-3 was carried out between 2010 and 2012.
The study focused on the responses of 706 men and 1254 women to questions about their reasons for breakdown of a marriage or cohabiting relationship in the past 5 years.
[UCL is, of course, University College London. It has as part of one of its faculties the above-mentioned school.]
I would have guessed footie.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday March 29 2017, @12:27PM (1 child)
In many places what you have would be considered a common law marriage, essentially long-term cohabitation, comingled finances, etc. The exact definition is unimportant, though, because what you have is the essence of the emotional sanctuary I was getting at. You could be gay in a long-term monogamous partnership in a place that does not consider it marriage, but in its most important aspects it's the same.
The distinction between common law marriage and officially sanctioned marriage, I suspect, might count when it comes to divorce. I don't know for sure because I've never been divorced (thank god), nor do I know the law there. Maybe those more knowledgeable could say.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday March 29 2017, @01:02PM
When it comes to residency, here in Estonia she's still afforded the same protection (whilst I'm still an EU citizen - fuck you very much UKIP), despite there being no exactly equivalent official status. Quite how we get away with it, we don't know. But the cops have never raised the issue as we renew our id cards and residency permits every few years. Obviously no externally-imposed financial implications exist. (We both coughed up 50% of the wodge for where we live, custody on a split could be messy. No plans for that any time soon, fortunately.) Fuck knows what happens when article 50 kicks in - I probably go all bomb-belt on Boris Johnson's arse, that solves the problem quickly.
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