If your friends split up there is a 75 per cent chance your marriage will fall apart as well

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If your best friends’ marriage is falling apart then beware, yours could also be heading for the rocks.

Researchers have discovered that divorce is catching and spreads like a disease through families, work places and groups of friends.

The domino effect means that if an immediate friend or colleague splits up, your own chance of divorce increases by 75 per cent.

Even the break-up of a friend-of-a-friend’s marriage boosts your chances of divorce by a third, scientists say.

The researchers describe the effect as ‘divorce clustering’  –  and believe that break-ups within friendship groups force couples to start questioning their own relationships.

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