article_snippet: A study shows that a couple is more likely to divorce if the wife falls ill.
article_snippet: A study shows that a couple is more likely to divorce if the wife falls ill and researchers said researchers results indicate that some men simply cannot cope with a poorly spouse .
article_snippet: After tracking 2,700 couples in the US from 1992 to 2010, the American team found that divorce levels were roughly the same between healthy couples and those in which the husband suffered sickness.
article_snippet: But when disease hit the wife, the likelihood of divorce rose.
article_snippet: But among the 965 couples in which the woman got sick, the rate of divorce was 6 per cent higher.
article_snippet: If your spouse is too sick to work, we know that financial strain is a major predictor of divorce.