My Heart is Breaking #7

[addie]

Hi Nlt,
I want you to know that I am thinking about you. I can only imagine the pain you must be feeling. You do need time to heal because it has all happened so fast. Please get professional assistance to help you get through this pain. I found some very interesting stats while I was browsing online today:

80% of couples who divorce as the result of an affair later regret their decision to divorce.*

The statistics for affair-born relationships are even more extreme:

Fewer than 10% of all extramarital affair relationships will actually result in a marriage between the two affair partners.*

If an affair-born relationship does result in a marriage, 3 out of 4 of those couples can expect their new marriage to also end in divorce.*

What does this mean?

It means that for every 100 extramarital relationships - less than 10 of the unfaithful spouses will actually marry his or her affair partner. If the affair partners do marry, 75% of those marriages will also end in divorce - which means that at best, less than 3 out of every 100 affair born relationships will result in a marriage that does not end in divorce! (And this doesn't take into account marital separation, only legal divorce, which brings the success rate down from the already generous but alarmingly low 2.5%!)

I'm not sure how accurate these stats are but I thought you might have some comfort with this.