Apparently, a relationship can also be affected by an economic crisis, but, in fact, it is not the relationship we are talking about now, but its ending.
Apparently, there are corners of the world where people don't go for a divorce even if they don't get along anymore and that is because they can't afford to get divorced.
This also seems to be the case in Great Britain.
  Apparently, fewer and fewer British couples get divorced and that is because the pries for properties have gone down and the couples cannot sell their houses anymore.
this is even sadder for them if you take into consideration the fact that the banks have established all kinds of conditions which are not in favour of buying a house on your own.
  This research was done by Grant Thornton.
According to this study, half of the divorce lawyers questioned declared that the number of the divorces in Great Britain will decrease even more because of the financial crisis which is affecting the entire world, not only Great Britain.
  According to some more statistics, the number of divorces in 2008 decreased from 12.
9 per thousand to 11.
9.
Of course, this is not a major difference, but you might want to take into consideration the fact that 2008 marked only the beginning of the financial crisis everybody is so affected by nowadays.
These being the facts, it seems that more and more people prefer to stay together and have some money than get a divorce and be left under the open sky.