POST-PRESS: It's Now a 3-Year Glitch for UK Marriages

A UK survey that Judi James conducted found that the famed "7-year-itch," that period in marriage afterwhich a pressured life--both in time and money--take its toll on the couples' relation, and either spouse started going out alone. Right now, it has gone down into three years, a serious drop by four years. [Read full report]

Findings

Here are some essential findings:

Small irritations. Around 67 percent of the 2000 respondents reported that small irritations often expand into major irritations.

Sexual satisfaction. Lesser number of couples enjoy sexual relations. Younger relationships, 52 percent of them, reported enjoying it at least three times a week. Relationships older than three years had it only in 16 percent of respondents.

Scheduled intimacy. Around 55 percent of respondents said that they now have to "schedule" their romantic time because of day-to-day demands of their time.

Compliment hunger. Those, about 33 percent of them, who stayed in a relationship for five years or more reported that they never received comploiments from their partners anymore.

Growing individual space. Some 76 percent of the respondents noted a growing need for "individual space," and the rise of individual activities.

Individual activities. Around 34 percent admitted that after three years in the relationship, at least two evenings a month has come to be accepted as an individual space to pursue their own interests, while 58 percent spent regular holidays without their partners.

Such a saddening situation.

Top 10 Itch-Makers

Here are some specific factors that respondents consider as dumpers for romance:

1--weight gain and lack of exercise (13%)
2--money and spendthriftness (11%)
3--antisocial working hours (10%)
4--hygiene issues (personal cleanliness) (9%)
5--in-laws, extended families (9%)
6--lack of romance (sex, treats, etc.) (8%)
7--alcohol (drinking too much) (7%)
8--antisocial bedtime habits (snoring) (6%)
9--lapsed fashion (same old clothes, underwear) (4%)
10-bathroom habits (stray nail cuttings, etc.) (4%)

Common Law Or Legal Marriages?

It is not clear however if this study covered only married relationships, as Church marriages and common-law arrangements may be a significant factor in the outcome. Reuter uses the term "partners," alluding to the involvement only of unwed couples.

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