The causes of current divorces are very varied. The main one is, as the joke would say, marriage. However, being a bit more serious, infidelity is usually the main cause. However, as society advances and technology advances, the causes are becoming more and more diverse and curious. There are seven main causes, although surely there are many more. Some very serious and some very extravagant.
We want to talk about the most basic ones that exist today. And we will not even mention the famous coronavirus, which has triggered divorces in China. This situation is totally circumstantial and sooner or later it will end up happening.
Causes of current divorces
Reporter ‘Smartphones’: they can become spies that we carry in our pockets. Gadgets and new technologies can play tricks. The matrimonial lawyer Sergio Domínguez recalls the case of a Mexican client who heard what she shouldn’t have. «She was talking to her husband on the phone and they said goodbye. He had bought a ‘smartphone’ of the kind that switches off by running his finger over it. Thinking he had hung up, he put it away. Then he had met a close friend. When he returned to pick it up, the phone was hot. » Perhaps because his wife on the other side was fuming.
When the pet is the king of the house: certain animals can become man’s best friend. But they can also be a drag on the marriage. Above all, in cases like the one explained by Ángel Palomino, director of the Madrid-based firm Palomino Bueno. «I remember a divorce complaint filed by a woman whose husband was a dolphin trainer. He communicated with them by whistling, and at home he used the same system with his children and his wife. Of course, she could not stand it.»
Hygiene, eternal cause: Halitosis, the main physical inhibitor of libido according to recent reports, is a very old cause of rupture. Same as personal hygiene. What is striking, therefore, is that today both continue to end up with a large number of couples. In fact, in Great Britain the lack of soap is the first reason for divorce, followed by no cooperation in housework.
More outlandish causes
Too many mothers-in-law: they say that there is only one mother. Well, the same should happen with mothers-in-law. Because Yolanda met three, which blew up her marriage. «At first I thought I could handle the burden I was carrying: three children from two different marriages, one 11, another six and another one year old. But what I did not have is that I would also have three mothers-in-law.»
Less Facebook, better marriage: «It was a long-distance relationship. Everything was going well until he began to monitor me on Facebook. One day he wrote to an acquaintance to ask him what his relationship was with me. It was the last straw and I broke up with him «. That social networks can affect the couple is not an impression, nor an isolated case like that of María, a 30-year-old singer from Madrid.
Spirituality taken to the extreme: The Catalan Mercedes C. always knew that her husband had a spiritual point. But she never thought that one day the top executive of a shipping company she had been married to for five years would tell her that he wanted to become a Buddhist monk. «When Buddhism became fashionable with so many converted actors, he began to go into retirement for a week from time to time. This tasted like a burned horn to me, because he left me alone with the girl. Besides, he traveled a lot and hardly spent time with us. «.
The luxury not shared: a second residence on the beach or in the mountains, jewels, dinners in the best restaurants. And of course, the bigger the better an SUV. The economic ‘boom’ in pre-crisis Spain caused ruptures because some of the members of the couple did not adapt to their new situation.