Do you think the pandemic has caused a rise in breakups/marriages failing?

[Mel2021]

Yes

No

[Finchie40]

Yes and you forgot to add social media as well as a reason people are breaking up and divorcing , and cheating , since people been cooped up in their homes and most people lost their jobs they put more of their time playing on their phones and flirting with other people , and fighting with their partners , thinking grass is greener on the other side , I witnessed a bunch of relationships ending during this time , and more cheating occurring, also just a few weeks ago a girl I knew that was married got busted cheating on her husband and he shot her in the face , she apparently is still alive but holding on for her life in the hospital while her husband is behind bars

[Mel2021]

I agree that’s a fair point I think the saddest thing is a lot of potential couples have split due to the pandemic instead of working through it together
Also that’s awful, I know she shouldn’t have cheated but that response is not on, he should have ended things and walked away

[Finchie40]

Yea I agree , but just goes to show how people are acting during this time , and it’s pretty pathetic

[Mel2021]

It really does!

[exitseven]

the pandemic has screwed up a lot of people. Suicides, drug abuse, divorces are all on the rise. People are facing insecurity and isolation. They are depressed. It's easy to see that there would be more breakups.

[Mel2021]

It really has but I think it’s sad that couples with a lot of potential have giving up due to the pandemic instead of working through it

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Don't think it was the cause, but maybe the straw that broke the camel's back...

[ohshee]

Have you ever noticed when you meet somebody new and either you or one of your friends will say oh my God that person is so hot. Or that person is so cute and their focus and locked into the person just on that and then eventually they start learning who the person is and what they're really all about and they start to understand just because they look good doesn't mean that they are good and during this pandemic people in relationships they're locked in their home together they're irritable anyway but then the true person really comes out. I believe the people that will make it are the people who look deep within first find out who that person is see who that person really is because that's the truth the person on the inside is always going to be the person you get no matter what no matter their beauty no matter what they look like what they don't look like the true person is the heart of a person that's a beautiful mess on the outside not that congeniality. So I don't know if the pandemic has contribute to it but it very well could have

[ODC2112]

The lockdown broke all those marriages that were over before it started. All those who got married in order not to be alone and often couldn't stand their partner, all those who got married for convenience and almost always couldn't stand their partner.

[Mel2021]

That’s a fair point but I feel a lot of couples have given up too soon and rather than stick through thick and thin they give up

[ODC2112]

That's another point of view, but it comes from the fact that people tend to be infantilized. That is, they behave like children even if they are adults. And this relates to the choices they made, choices as children for the short term that are completely futile in times of difficulty and behave like children and look for something else.

[TodsShadow]

Yes, for the first time in a lot of these “functioning” relationships. The 2 have been forced to face each other and speak. No more get up and go and routine routine routine. They had to actually sit down and be around each other when Normally they would be at work. I’d imagine a lot of people realized they didn’t even really know their spouse or took time to notice the change in them and wanted a difference. That’s just a segement of the issues though.

[Mel2021]

It is and you are right but I think it’s Sad a lot of couples with potential have ended due to the pandemic instead of working through it

[Screenwriter]

A lawyer friend says divorces have skyrocketed because people who've just been cruising along in the same car are having to live in a small tent together. Flaws that could be ignored at a distance have become glaringly large and horribly irritating. Staying together just for the kids drops off the radar.

I think it's a good thing, though. It's better have it out in the open and to get to rational solutions than to waste time in a sour relationship.

[hellacray]

Has it?

Well I guess if a guy loses his job the girl could flee.

[Mel2021]

Some women do that which is awful and they aren’t worth it

[bulletbob555]

I'm sure it has what I had noticed was the amount of people murdering their spouse or significant other. So sad

[Mel2021]

That’s awful 😞

[ItsMeItsMe1989]

Yeah. my cousin got divorced from his cheating wife, during this period

[Mel2021]

Ah that’s awful I’m sorry 😞

[robocop666]

if you were locked in a room with anyone for 15 months you would go insane

[Mel2021]

Exactly which is why I find it sad that because couples are arguing and becoming irritable due to the pandemic that they are giving up instead of working through it

[robocop666]

I don't think they can work through it. i think it will just accelerate their future problems.

[Mel2021]

Maybe but I feel a lot of couples are giving up too soon, there is no such a thing as a perfect relationship and most when they hit their first hurdle now will run instead of trying to work through it together

[robocop666]

good point

[mintbloo]

i'm sure you have more than 1 room... come on, now.

[jamesgoldman]

Yeah, it's been great for business... all those wedding bands crying out for the furnace

[CallmeTheKnight]

The lockdown may have caused people to shack up more, but time has also revealed the person they were living with. Now everything they did, they couldn't stand at all

[TommyMountainFigure]

I think the pandemic has speeded up problems within relationships that may have already existed.

[Bklynbadboy12]

I didn't think so. until. you showed me proof of was

[Anonymous]

i laugh at people blaming the pandemic causing their crappy marriage to fail... it was going to fail anyways, not because of a pandemic.

[Anonymous]

Yeah definitely, I heard many Chinese divorced because of it

[TheSpaceGnome]

No, I think conditional love did that.

[Mel2021]

I Agree on that point but the pandemic put a lot of stress and strain on relationships as well which has caused breakups to rise which I find sad

[TheSpaceGnome]

True, I just meant that if people actually loved their SO, the pandemic wouldn't have effected their relationships.

[Mel2021]

That is true, I was dumped during the pandemic by my boyfriend because I became stressed and he came to a point where he couldn’t take anymore though maybe I pushed him away is what I feel like

[TheSpaceGnome]

I feel like being just like eachother and maintaining fidelity should be the only conditions in a relationship.

I would be willing to stay with someone no matter what outside of that, provided they did the same, but people only seem to care sbout using people now, making them their support systems.

[Mel2021]

I agree I’m the same which is why I’m heartbroken as I wouldn’t have left them like that and we had a lot in common but despite that I was left anyway but I wonder was it my fault that he left in the end?

[Anonymous]

Women are the number one cause of failed marriages and breakups. the pandemic is only incidental

[Mel2021]

Why are women? Men can leave as well, just want to hear thoughts on this?

[Opinion Owner]

The stats say that women file for divorce at a much higher rate than men. The highest rate of divorce is between lesbians, not hetero or gay male couples. If the problem was men then the lesbians would have the lowest rate of divorce, not the highest

[Mel2021]

I get you, just this year my ex broke up with me during the pandemic and left me heartbroken so I was wondering

[Opinion Owner]

its not always women though, sorry to hear that

[Mel2021]

Thank you I appreciate it, it just still hurts even after 4 months but I know what you are saying

[jimmy2]

I think its the opposite. But i also think it has killed dating

[Shihab91]

Yes but it's already fuked up 😂😂

[lovedejj_xo]

Yes!

[Mel2021]

I know right?