Christina Steinorth, a California psychotherapist and author said that “it is no secret that children of divorced parents are more likely to get divorced (Philpott, Shannon).” In the year 2014 there were 6.9 per 1,000 total population of marriages in the United States of all forty-nine states reporting and 3.2 per 1,000 of every forty-five states reporting were divorces (Marriage and Divorce). These few children that were in families that had divorces cannot foster a healthy relationship if one at all without experiencing challenges from their parents’ divorce themselves (Philpott, Shannon). A recent study that was done at the University of Denver by researchers Rhoades, Stanley, and Markman found that women whose parents were divorced had low confidence and commitment to relationships, this was not the same in men though (Causewell, Melody). When a young adolescent sees their parents’ marriage begin to crumble they begin to form a very pessimistic view of any relationships in general, especially during the time of when parental conflict is high and present Philpott, Shannon). In a study done in the Journal of Family Psychology, researchers found that children that were from divorced homes were more likely to have a divorce than those that do not come from these homes …show more content…
Trust can scare anyone out of their interest in love, but fear itself might be worse. Fear is a commonly developed feeling that every human has and some experience fear more often than others. Nearly all people want to find a partner for themselves, but the pure fear of intimacy scares them from love and makes them uninterested because of this factor (Fear of Intimacy: Understanding Why People Fear Intimacy, 2016). People will say that they are seeking love, but find it difficult to accept being loved and acknowledged for themselves, this will make someone fear of being close to someone at all (About Fear of Intimacy). When people are falling in love there is excitement and fulfillment, but this creates fear of that relationship alone and many more that the person might have (About Fear of Intimacy). This fear, although mental, starts to create an apathy to love for some people. Apathy to love, though it be rare, is still around. People have no enthusiasm to love, because they are continually being let down by everything in a relationship. This refusal of love is caused by many thing things in general and have had people straying from the feeling for decades. The causes to apathy of love is childhood situations, trust issues,