‘Really good flatmate’: what happens when the love is gone but it costs too much to move out?
Source: www.theguardian.com ·
Section: headlines ·
Bias: Center-Left
· Published: Sat, 27 Jun 2026 20:00:13 GMT
The cost of living is putting pressure on relationships – and preventing some couples from properly splitting upSign up for a weekly email featuring our best readsThe separate sleeping arrangement started seven years before the marriage finished. When Mary-Ann’s* hot flushes turned the bed into a furnace, her husband, Bill, moved into another bedroom. For the next two years there was some travel between the bedrooms for the purposes of intimacy. Then that stopped too.The distance grew after each argument; they took separate holidays and, when Bill inherited money, he separated it from their pooled finances. Mary-Ann says it was clear Bill’s mind was no longer in the marriage – he was what is termed “quiet quitting”. But she acknowledges she was drifting away too, focused on a demanding new job. Continue reading...
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