he main reasons for divorce. Because one of the immediate causes of divorce is economic hardship, it is suggested that the two persons involved were not able to make ends meet as expected, resulting in divorce (Coontz, 2007). Divorce becomes the logical idea to avoid the strife placed on the family by economics.
             Another common cause of divorce is sexual factors and infidelity. Lowenstein (2005) found that "in men high levels of endogenous testosterone seemed to encourage sexual behavior and tended to come into conflict with a harmonious marriage" (p.158). This fact seems to reveal the correlation between the testosterone a man secretes, his acts of infidelity, and divorce. It appears that husbands and wives having differing sex drives are affected by the others strength or lack thereof (Lowenstein). Divorcing adults are more apt to turn to other adults if their sexual needs are not met in their own marriage. Coontz (2007) first believed that emphasizing sexual satisfaction lowers the divorce rate and was surprised to
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