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If you're inside a sexless connection you may be concerned this situation will never improve and you is going to be still left inside a loveless relationship for the rest of your life. This train of imagined obviously qualified prospects down the trail of wondering a few divorce - and it does not matter how heartfelt your vows were, a lack of intimacy unravels a marriage - but does it basically cause divorce? Are sexless marriages & divorce strongly linked or is there more at play?<br /><br />Inside a study done a few years back the major causes of divorce in a very large ranging study of divorcees came up with some interesting facts and percentages to the major reasons for divorce such as:<br /><br />    Communication problems (27%)<br />    Incompatibility/drifting apart (21%) (Includes loss of love, trust and changed values and lifestyle demands or desires)<br />    Sexual incompatibility (2%)<br />    Infidelity (20%)<br />    Alcohol & Drug Abuse (3-11%)<br />    Family Violence (35%) (nearly all women claimed this as the reason)<br />    Mental or Physical Health (5%)<br />    Work (3%)<br /><br />From this we can see that sexual incompatibility (which we can assume can mean a sexless marriage in some cases) is in fact very low at only 2%! There's a chance you're direct to believe that this means sexless couples are either very rare, or that they do not in many cases lead to a divorce.<br /><br />I beg to differ. While marriages without sexual intimacy are not common they are not so uncommon to be considered rare or statistically irrelevant. The causes for marriages that lack sexual activity are also quite well represented in this survey. What people put down on a survey may be the stuff that prospects to a sexless relationship but they put that down rather than admitting to sexual problems.<br /><br />For instance:<br /><br />    Communication problems are one of the prime causes of people not connecting intimately, leading in some cases to less sex, or in extreme cases sexless marriages.<br />    Incompatibility is code words screaming out about sexual problems. Most people will claim to be drifting apart if they no longer have sex as well as other parts of their lifestyle so many sexless marriages could be in this statistic.<br />    Infidelity is also another big one and something that often happens in sexless marriages. Sometimes for years one partner is having an affair to fulfil their sexual desires before it comes to a head and divorce happens.<br /><br />Now these statistics do not prove that sexless marriages & divorce are linked - but they do point out a lot of correlations that are quite telling. I my opinion, many sexless marriages will end in divorce because a loveless marriage does not stand the test of time [http://www.filedropper.com/beingfamiliarwithmoredetailsondivorceandrelationshipdata20140308040811 check this youtube video]