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Reading an interesting article about the rising divorce rate in the weekend newspaper recently, I began to think about the implications of this trend on our society, and more importantly, the reasons for this unfortunate phenomenon. The article was chock-a-block with anecdotes and true stories that outlined the stories of the couples immediately before their decision to divorce – some of which were so bizarre and outlandish that they would have been unheard of a decade ago. However, today they are accepted as normal or as a sign of the times. Cases of affairs being brought out into the open through the use of private investigators or mobile phones and emails being heard and seen by the wrong people, divorces brought on by trivial arguments about the car, the mortgage and th