Yes, that’s right. You should be worried If your close friend has just gone through a divorce or a break-up.
Here is why? Researchers at Harvard, Brown, and UC San Diego University in the US found that divorce is contagious, saying that a divorce by your close friend could have a direct bearing on your marriage.
They say you are at a propensity of 75 percent to end your own relationship.
They also found that even a co-worker’s divorced raises the possibility of divorce in your own relationship by 50 percent. Boom! Boom! Boom!
The searchers liken divorce to the contagious flu, saying that breaking up can be highly contagious.
The study titled: “Breaking Up is Hard to Do Unless Everyone Else is Doing it Too”, has left people talking.
“Divorce represents the dissolution of a social tie, but it is also possible that attitudes about divorce flow across social ties. To explore how social networks, influence divorce, and vice versa, we exploit a longitudinal data set from the long-running Framingham Heart Study”
The study took three decades to collect and analyze data from thousands of study sub-population.
