The summer holidays should be a fun time for families, spending time with the kids and better weather, but the summer holidays can be one of the biggest times of the year for couples separating.
January has the highest yearly divorce rates but September is close behind, so what is is about holidays that seem to make more people split up and get separated or divorced?
Does the hot weather get you hot under the collar? Do short skirts in summer months tempt huspands and partners to stray? Most people think that the added strain of spending a lot of time with your family dusing holidays is a factor to speed up a relationship that is heading for divorce. Summer holidays is a stressful time when families are pushed together and their is the expectance that you will go on holidays together.
This corresponds with the figures from Christmas break ups where you are often confined not only with your immediate family but also extended families. This with money worries can often antagonise a relationship and be the trigger that pushes a couple to separate or divorce.
In the summer holidays many couples have to put their children first, if you children go to school, you have to take time off work to look after them or find additional money for childcare. This can cause arguments as many companies will not let you have 6 weeks off all year let a lone just for summer as well as the half terms, easter, and Christmas holidays. This means couples have to juggle time off, enlist in help from friends and relatives or shell out on childcare which can be very expensive per child. These pressures are difficult to get through at the best of times ut if your relationship is already a bit rocky then this would explain the increase in separations and divorce after the summer holidays.
What do you think contributes to Summer separations? Did you split with your ex over the summer holidays? Do you think other factors are involved that we haven’t looked at? Discuss this and more at the My Mad Ex Divorce and Separation forum. To discuss Summer separations go to the individual forum discussion!
