DESCRIPTION – At 40, you know what you want. And what we don’t want or don’t want anymore. A century of asserting one’s own expectations, stepping back from social norms. A period of questioning that often creates uneasy territory for the couple.
According to experts, arguments in a couple are normal, inevitable, even healthy. But sometimes their pace and intensity increase to the point where they become painful. Statistics say that one in two marriages in France last less than ten years, that there were 128,000 divorces in 2016, and that people break up most between the ages of 40 and 45.
Forties, more than a thorny period for couples. Ornela, who is now 43 years old, is convinced of this. He paid the price. Yet he knew it; some moments in life contribute to tension. The end of a romantic merger. He had prepared for it when they moved in together. Conflicts that could arise after the birth of their child. The same. “But the crisis we went through last year, I didn’t expect it at all,” he says. Ornella describes the rising tone, the slamming of doors, the back-to-back arguments. “I…
Source: Le Figaro
