I read an interesting article in the Sunday Mail (QLD) 8th June 2008. It mentioned a new trend emerging dubbed the "non-divorce" where married and defacto couples are living together like passionless room-mates rather than spouses, sometimes even openly dating other people. Ths is because they can't afford to actually leave each other. It states that some couples stay in the marriage for the convenience of sharing the bills. If a woman has children and she leaves her husband, she suddenly becomes the breadwinner. When faced with this, it appears that some women will often decide to stay in the relationship because if she left, she would have no viable means of support. This is a very scary proposition, and one that requires deep thought before acting on. If a woman found out that her husband had committed infidelity, I wonder if that would make it harder for her to stay in the 'passionless room-mate' existence, than if the marriage had just started to sour on its own.