what is the#1 cause for divorce?

Answer 1

lack of respect, selfishness and financial issues come to mind. otherwise, people get bored with each other and don't try hard enough to make a relationship work.

Answer 2

Stupidity-
But seriously lack of communication
during the dating phase is the underlying
cause of problems in marriages later.

Many times both partners do communicate-
BUT- not about the right types of things.
When too many important things are supressed
that should have been discussed-
this can lead to a lot of petty arguments
later on- which really just mask all of the
larger unresolved issues-
until the final big explosion and ensuing
break-up.

Answer 3

1. Money
2. Cheating
3. Incompatibility

Answer 4

I don't know for sure, but I'd bet it's not infidelity.

Too many couples just aren't emotionally mature enough to get married, but also probably haven't spent enough time together (as in "engagement") to discover that.

In my experience, the biggest pitfalls in relationships are:

- a serious lack of compromise; the inability to resolve problems without trauma.

- a serious lack of common interests
- a lack of sympathy and forgiveness

Basically, people get married without knowing whether they can actually live harmoniously with another human being. They have failed to evaluate both themselves and the other person.

Answer 5

first comes resentment, than lack of communication causes hurt emotions that u can't get past, than someone goes outside the marriage and begins to emotionally get involved with someone else, than a full blown affair starts and because of the hurt of betrayal and the rejection the person is feeling someone files for divorce.

Answer 6

SELFISHNESS, which can play out as having an affair, demanding you get your way, expecting the person to meet all your needs and be exactly what you want and need at all times, believing that the marriage is only good as long as you are happy, and so forth. Everything is related to one or usually both seeing marriage as being about them and their happinesss. I heard a great quote that has made a difference to me: Marriage is not about personal happines, but personal holiness.

Answer 7

Childish Selfishness.
When married, you devote yourself to making someone more important than you. Your JOB is that person's happiness. That means listening when YOU may be bored. You listen because that is what your spouse needs. The NANOsecond you lose sight of that, you are in trouble. When you start thinking selfishly, YOUR finances, YOUR friends,... YOU'RE headed for trouble.

Answer 8

marriage too soon and for the wrong reasons and without the realization that marriage is a contract between two people.
I dont think most couples take the vows as seriously as the love or reason they married.

Answer 9

Cheating

Answer 10

Men

Answer 11

immaturity and irrespondsibility.
not to mention being lazy
if you marry some one,your saying no matter what i am commited to making it work.
and people divorce becasue they are too lazy to do the work to make it better so now they want to start anew which tells me they were never ready to begin with.
dont give up beacuse things arent going your way compromise,make it work