13 Possible Causes of Divorce

1. Distrust: Distrust, simply put is inability to trust another person. Distrust usually comes from suspicion, mere imagination that your partner is having an extramarital affair or from past betrayal. If your partner was ever caught cheating on you it becomes almost impossible to ever trust him/her and if this feeling is not controlled it could worsen and eventually end in divorce.
2. Infidelity: Infidelity or marital unfaithfulness is one other cause of divorce. If you get involved in adultery and your partner gets to know of it your marriage may well be on the rocks. If you do not want this nasty situation you must be faithful to your partner.
3. Lack of mutual respect: When a couple begins to treat the other without respect, he or she may just be preparing the ground for a divorce. One's greatest desire is the desire to be respected and when one is treated as a mere object one looks for a way out of the relationship.
4. Poor communication: When there is poor communication in a relationship that relationship is doomed to failure. Couples must learn to express themselves freely and unambiguously.
5. Incompatibility: When couples have differences of ideology, religion, interests, social status, values, beliefs, etc they are likely to break up in no distant time because they rarely agree on any topic and each may likely stick to what he/she believes thereby deepening the wide golf between them.
6. Poor hygiene: Poor hygiene or dirtiness could also easily lead to a divorce especially if it is the woman that is guilty here. Women easily accommodate men even if they have the habit of being dirty, but it is not so with men; they hardly tolerate it.
7. Childlessness: This is particularly common in the African continent where children are so treasured and barrenness is hardly acceptable. The man could easily be pressured to end his marriage and go for a second (productive) wife.
8. Poor sex life: This is one area that most people tend to overlook but which is very important. Some people can endure the excesses of their spouse if they are having a good sex life but can hardly stay glued in a marriage where they are managing their sex life.
9. Crave for independence: Where marriage is seen as restricting one's freedom there is the likelihood of that marriage ending in divorce.
10. Alcoholism: Is also a contributory factor to especially if the culprit brings disgrace to the family name often.
11. : If a man batters his wife or children his marriage may not last long as the wife soon seeks a way of the constant molestation and physical assaults.
12. Immature couples: Couples who married in their teen age are more likely to divorce than the mature ones.
13. Extra-commitments: Putting other programmes first before the family may eventually lead to neglect, frustration and divorce.