We all know that two of the greatest pressures on a relationship are money and kids. A recent survey, by Relate, shows that couples who have suffered the most in this latest recession are EIGHT times more likely to break up. And for those who have been hardest hit but who managed to stay together, their relationship was likely to have deteriorated.
However, the Office for National Statistics reckoned almost the opposite was true - that actually the divorce rate was falling whilst unemployment was rising. They further say that couples have been brought closer together by having to work together harder to survive the economic downturn.
In Relate's study, six categories of economic survival were used:
1. Forging ahead
2. Doing well
3. Getting by
4. Overworked and underpaid
5. Bearing the brunt
6. Distressed and disengaged
Their conclusion was that people in category 6 were eight times more likely to break up than those in category 1.
Who knows, these 6 categories may in future be used to determine how at risk your relationship might be - any one of us, at any time, fits into one of those categories, and it might be a useful way of looking at our lives in general to keep a close eye on relationships when the going gets tough.
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