Over the past couple of months, you might have noticed several headlines stating that the divorce rate spiked due to Covid-19, while there are also articles covering the fact that divorce rates have dropped due to the same pandemic. What is the truth and why did global lockdown regulations have such a major impact on marriages? The team of trusted divorce attorneys at John Grasso in Rhode Island shed some light for us on this topic.

“The past year to 18 months was a highly stressful time for most people around the globe. This stress is only starting to level out once again now as vaccinations have been around for quite some time. However, the impact of the lockdown is not over for many couples as these weeks and even months of social isolation, working remotely from home and being in each other’s space for far more time than usual, simply meant to many couples the end of their once joyous marital bliss. For many couples, spending so much time together highlighted little irritations, led to conflict and friction within relationships, and even in certain cases resulted in infidelity becoming known. While these factors all contributed to the increase in not only divorces but also break-ups, there were also a large group of people who might have been considering divorce pre-Covid but due to the uncertainty about the situation and the insecurity many felt, these couples opted to stay together for a bit longer,” says John Grasso. He stated that while many couples simply couldn’t survive having so much contact, this caused the divorce numbers to peak. However, the fear and financial uncertainty for others forced them to stay and this lowered the rate again.

Grasothen continues by saying that even while these couples opted to stay together, they didn’t necessarily take any action to work on their relationships. Thus, there was no improvement in the situation. Once regulations became less restrictive, the uncertainty of the entire situation became far more diluted and suddenly these couples are now once again fed-up with each other, and this is bringing the divorce numbers to peak again.

“The pandemic hit many relationships very hard and our team of expert divorce attorneys in Rhode Island had to pull all the stops to ensure that each of our clients received nothing but our signature excellent care. Yet, we believe we did it well as when you hire our services, you can be sure to have an expert by your side,” Grace concluded.

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