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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's cheating.  up to 60%.  It may seem lower because people don't talk about it.
But every divorced woman I've talked to since my husband left for mistress has told me their husband also cheated (even when no one else other than their closest friend/family know about it.)
Also, when I had several divorce lawyer consults, they also told me almost all divorces involve cheating.  It's so prevalent, that's why the law shifted to no fault divorces- specifically because it was taking too much of the court's time to try to sort out damages due to adultery, so now the default is simply 50/50 no matter what.  What a slap in the face it was to learn that all marriages/divorces contain adultery, so get over it.

Next highest cause of divorce is domestic abuse, approx. 25%[/quote]

I think that people share their mostly-private reasons for divorce only once they encounter someone with the same reasons. So in my case, it wasn't cheating, but abuse and his mental health issues, and I have stumbled into so many divorces that ended for those two reasons. I have a friend whose marriage ended with cheating, and she was startled by how many people have pulled her aside and wanted to talk about their own experience. I think cheating is less prevalent than what you're suggesting and/or your attorney happens to work with a specific population. Mine did a lot of litigation and high-conflict divorces, so naturally the bulk of his work was people in divorces with spouses with mental illness, personality disorders, abusers, etc. [/quote]

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