Why do people break up? The sad tth is that ’s easier to fall love than to stay love. Did you know that 70 percent of straight unmarried upl break up wh the first year? This is acrdg to a longudal study by Stanford soclogist Michael Rosenfeld who tracked more than 3,000 people, married and unmarried straight and gay upl sce 2009 to fd out what happens to relatnships over time. The study found that after five years there was only a 20 percent chance that a uple will break up and that figure dwdl by the time they have been together for ten years. The qutn is, why do so many upl break up wh a year or two? Experts say there are ne key reasons for why this happens.
Contents:
- GAY RELATNSHIP BREAKUP CAN BE PROBLEMATIC. HERE’S HOW TO AVOID THE RISKS
- HOW TO SURVIVE (AND W) A GAY BREAKUP
- WHY LBIAN UPL ARE MORE LIKELY TO DIVORCE THAN GAY ON
GAY RELATNSHIP BREAKUP CAN BE PROBLEMATIC. HERE’S HOW TO AVOID THE RISKS
* why do gay couples break up *
This is acrdg to a longudal study by Stanford soclogist Michael Rosenfeld who tracked more than 3, 000 people, married and unmarried straight and gay upl sce 2009 to fd out what happens to relatnships over time. Durg the first two years more gay than lbian upl seized the opportuny to get married, but sce 2003 more lbian than gay marriag were registered. Last year, 765 lbian and 644 gay marriag were registered the Netherlands, slightly more than durg the past five years.
Sce 2011 more than 200 lbian upl and more than 100 gay upl cid to break up.
HOW TO SURVIVE (AND W) A GAY BREAKUP
More lbian than gay upl ci to break up. Lbian upl are more likely to divorce than gay upl.
Gay marriag are ls likely to end divorce. After ten years more than 15 percent of gay marriag had failed.
If the ag of the partners and the age gap between them is taken to acunt, lbian upl are still more likely to divorce than gay and heterosexual upl. In that se, the risk of divorce is the same for gay and heterosexual upl. Homosexual men olr at marriage.
WHY LBIAN UPL ARE MORE LIKELY TO DIVORCE THAN GAY ON
On average, gay partners are olr when they marry than their heterosexual unterparts; gay men are on average more than 43 years old on their weddg-day, as agast nearly 37 years for heterosexual men. Almost 20 percent of gay married men were 55 years or olr on their weddg-day. Consirable age gap between gay partners.
Apart om the average age of gay men at marriage, the age gap between them is also higher than between lbian and heterosexual partners. The age difference between gay partners was 7.