Norwegian researchers recently conducted a study analyzing the affects of alcohol consumption on marriages.
What they found isn’t too surprising: heavy drinking and “incompatible” drinking — where one spouse consumes far more than the other — increased the chance of divorce.
The study, which surveyed almost 20,000 Norwegian couples, found that couples who consumed roughly the same amount of alcohol were more likely to stick together.
In marriages where the wife was the heavy drinker, the couple was even more likely to divorce.
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The author of the study, Norwegian Institute of Public Health’s Fartein Ask Torvi, offered several reasons why divorce was more likely when the woman was the heavy drinker:
“A wife’s heavy drinking probably also interferes more with general family life — that is, the caring role of the mother, upbringing of children, etc.,” Torvi said. “Perhaps the husband is more apt to the leave the spouse than is the wife when major problems occur.”
Other studies have been done analyzing the connection between drinking and divorce. A study by the American Sociological Association found that married women drink more than those who are divorced or single. In contrast, married men drink less than those that who are divorced or single. This is likely because the women live with men who have higher levels of alcohol use.
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