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[quote=Anonymous][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]

OP, your question is simple, if you have spent enough time around any of the professions you name. Personality disorders seem to be prevalent with lawyers, and some surgeons I know.  I have worked in several large firms, and have surgeosn in the family. It really does not matter what they look like, but DCUM landia wants to believe that looks trump all. [/quote]

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