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Originally Posted by Beso

You make it sound like men are sad and lonely after a divorce...

Sorry but it isn't always like that.

Obviously not always, but often. That's what statistics are about Parmy, it's not about everything being 100%, it's about noticing correlations that "X increases alongside Y" and thinking about why that might be.

If anything, the fact that it's "not all" makes it even more interesting because it means that it's not inevitable - so if you can figure out why it affects some men so badly but others manage to navigate it without going down that route, you can maybe tackle the issue.

Because as has been said above there are all sorts of reasons for divorces and separation, the answer can't be "we can solve it by people never breaking up". So it's worth figuring out why such a large number head off down a dark path.