Does Extramarital Sex Cause Divorce?

For years, the belief among family scientists and clinicians has been that infidelity has very little impact on whether a couple will get a divorce. They reasoned that extramarital sex was the result of a marriage that was already in trouble, making extramarital sex the result of a bad marriage rather than an action that caused a marriage to deteriorate. A recent study by Elizabeth Allen and David Atkins of over 16,000 people has shown that those beliefs are incorrect. Divorce rates increase sharply among those who have affairs, but not among those who remain faithful. Of those marriages touched by an affair, half have a chance of recovery.Read the full article here: Does Extramarital Sex Cause Divorce?