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The Internet & social media is the worst thing ever to be invented. It can be the "devil" in a relationship or marriage if left unchecked. 1/3 of all divorces happen these days because of Facebook & the Internet.
The Internet & social media is the worst thing ever to be invented. It can be the "devil" in a relationship or marriage if left unchecked. 1/3 of all divorces happen these days because of Facebook & the Internet.
Wrong on soooo many levels...
I'd like to see some data to back up your claim, except I know that 98.4% of all data is made up.
Facebook and social media are not the the cause of a divorce - they are simply a mitigating factor. Until I hear otherwise, communication will always remain at the top of the list.
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Originally Posted by reds37win
Wrong on soooo many levels...
I'd like to see some data to back up your claim, except I know that 98.4% of all data is made up.
Facebook and social media are not the the cause of a divorce - they are simply a mitigating factor. Until I hear otherwise, communication will always remain at the top of the list.
The Internet & social media is the worst thing ever to be invented. It can be the "devil" in a relationship or marriage if left unchecked. 1/3 of all divorces happen these days because of Facebook & the Internet.
Don't blame the Internet and Social Media - blame the people who can't be responsible with it.
A U.K. divorce site found that even in Dec. 2009, 20 percent of "behavior petitions" (which is British lingo for "reasons to file for divorce") contained the word "Facebook" in them, meaning that the site was in some way to blame for the marriage's dissolution. Just a couple of years later, that percentage jumped to 33 percent.
In 2012 Divorce-Online UK surveyed British divorce lawyers to determine if there was an anecdotal connection between social media use and divorce. According to that survey, approximately one in three divorces resulted from social media-related disagreements. Similarly, a 2010 survey by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) found that four out of five lawyers used evidence derived from social networking sites in divorce cases, with Facebook leading the pack. https://www.hg.org/article.asp?id=27803
In 2010, 81 percent of divorce attorneys surveyed by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers said they’d seen an increase in the number of cases using social networking evidence in the five years prior. The attorneys said Facebook was the number one source for finding online evidence, with 66 percent admitting they’d found evidence by combing the site. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/0...n_7183296.html
CONTAINED the word, not cited it as the cause of divorce
I bet a lot of other words were used too.
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Thank you. This is what I was getting at when I asked the OP near the beginning of the thread, if she was sure this was a marriage she wanted to keep. These aren't normal ups and downs. These concerns should have been addressed back in the earliest years of the marriage, probably with divorce as the end result. Why these two have slogged though 13 years of this, I don't know. Were there actually any "ups" of any significance? What exactly were the two parties getting out of it? What was on the plus side of the ledger, to the many and profound downsides?
The social media issue is just the tip of the iceberg here. Interesting that the OP chose that as the thread topic, and not the now multi-year sexless marriage.
OP, life isn't supposed to be like this. You deserve happiness.
What exactly are normal ups and downs? Im asking for for us who have had single parents exclusively and no model to gain from.
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