EXCLUSIVE: With 93% of UK adults noticing an increase in living costs over recent months, OK! investigates how the cost of living crisis is impacting our romantic relationships
With the price of supermarket staples continuing to soar, and household bills still rising, many people are feeling the squeeze right now. In fact, 93% of UK adults noticed a substantial increase in living costs between August and September last year.
But Hayley isn’t simply predicting what might be to come. For many people, this scenario is already a reality. When 30-year-old Jessica Logan from Tamworth gave up her £42,000 learning and development consultant job in 2018 because of disability, she and her husband Dale found themselves in a single-income household.
Divorce applications hit a 10-year high between April and June last year and some experts claim the cost of living crisis is squarely to blame. But while money may be causing some couples to drift apart, the financial strain they’re under is also hindering their ability to actually make that move to fully split up.
“The cost of dating makes me avoid going on dates,” the 43 year old says. “I’m not cynical about the prospect of meeting prospective partners, but I lack the drive that I used to have because of the rising costs involved, especially when you add this to the general expense of being single.” “I still believe in the idea of falling in love, but when you look at the practicality of dating, it now feels like a chore,” she says. “I’ll only go on a date if I think the person is ‘the One’ because I’m done with spending money just to see someone who really isn’t for me.”
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