Not all marriages or relationships fail for the same reason. Nor is there usually one reason for the breakdown of a particular relationship. Nevertheless, the five most current reasons are:
Poor communication,
Financial problems,
A lack of commitment to the marriage,
A dramatic change in priorities,
Infidelity.
Time, Sex and Money are the top three problem areas and main caused for extramarital affairs.
Why women are cheating on husbands
The reason that a woman cheats on her husband, most of the time, is for an emotional affair. Women, since they're out in the workplace, are looking for physical validation.
Oftentimes, a woman will commit adultery because she didn't marry for love. Men are cheating more now for emotional affairs. As men go into midlife crisis, they are looking for intimacy.
Partners in affairs are not usually chosen because they are prettier, more handsome, or sexier. They are chosen for various sorts of strange and nonsexual reasons.
Usually the other woman or the other man in an adulterous relationship meets needs the spouse does not meet in the marriage. Some studies have found that many of the people who had affairs had a good sex life, but came from marriages with little or no intimacy.
An affair is not the cause of a broken marriage. It's the result. after many years of marriage, partners can grow tired of each other. "It's inevitable for some familiarity to set in. According to some sources, an affair will: make you a better lover, help you with your mid-life crisis, bring joy into your life, or even bring excitement back into your marriage. Nothing could be further from the truth. An affair might give you more sex, but it could also guarantee you a divorce, limited access to your children and financial hardship. Remember that marital infidelity results in divorce 65 percent of the time.
In conclusion, based on several studies the following seven reasons were identified as the seven most common reasons for marital infidelity:
1. Fear of commitment.
2. For the thrill of it.
3. Not being fulfilled.
4. Sabotage.
5. Revenge.
6. Because you let him/ her.
7. Emotional escape.
After the passion of new romance has died down, people discover that it doesn't make a big difference who you marry. That being the case, rather than destroying an existing home and starting all over again, why not spend your energy keeping the fire burning at home?
