Almost a quarter of the divorces registered in the kingdom last year were between couples who had spent more than 15 years married together, according to data provided by a government agency.
The statistics, provided by the Information and eGovernment Authority’s Bahrain Open Data Portal (data.gov.bh), also revealed that there were more than 2,000 cases of divorce, a slight decrease compared to the previous year, and almost 5,700 marriages, a 12.5pc increase.
The trend is global. When the honeymoon is over, newly-wedded couples need to work at maintaining satisfaction and happiness in their relationship, a recent study shows. University researchers found that while couples experience a honeymoon phase in their marriages, their bliss usually decreases after 10 to 15 years.
The study, ‘Variation in Trajectories of Women’s Marital Quality’, was published in Social Science Research Journal. Spencer James, an assistant professor in US Brigham Young University’s Department of Family Life who conducted the research, told reporters: “Conflict increases over the first decade of marriage, perhaps due to unresolved, and potentially unresolvable, issues.”
