More Married Couples Are Living Separately. Can It Work?
How Living Apart Can Fix Marriage Issues
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The most common reasons married couples fight (and even split up), according to a report by Innovative Psychological Consultants, are:
- Division of labor
- Differences in child-rearing philosophies
- Quality time
- Money
Here’s another cohabitation-related issue that harms marriages: sleep disturbances. Time Magazine facilitated a full science-backed report on how sleep problems destroy otherwise happy marriages.
Most (if not all) of these conflicts would predominantly dissolve if a couple chose to live apart. Couples can’t argue about who is doing the dishes or taking out the trash the most if they live separately. Blended families with different child-rearing philosophies don’t need to agree on how to raise their kids if they raise them apart. Living together makes some couples take each other for granted and fail to set date nights, but living apart forces a couple to create quality time for one another.
Black women may fare better living apart from their spouses or significant others.
