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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For lawyers it’s the affairs.  I saw it so much at big firms.  [/quote]

With WHOM?  Almost all of the guys I know at firms are some combination of pudgy, bald, and awkward.  They are lucky they got married to begin with.[/quote]

OP here and the men I'm thinking of are all pretty good looking and charismatic (part of their success). But they also do not seem like the type to cheat and I know their wives and they are mostly pretty great (unsurprisingly -- you expect someone who seems to have a lot going for them to have a great partner). Just trying to figure out how that translates to 15/20 years down the road when the men in the same professions are like 70% divorced. And some of them still very good looking for their age.

It does seem like infidelity must be part of it but I guess I'm wondering what leads to the infidelity. Is it built into their personalities (big egos, as a PP said) or is it something about the job?

I don't know why this is bothering me now. I work at a firm on the business side and all the young partners are married and so many of the old partners are divorced. Then thinking also about a family member who is a surgeon and similarly happily married but the divorce rate for surgeons is also high. I'm just hung up on it-- these guys have everything and then it seems to fall apart at home for an alarming number of them.[/quote]

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