Overall, the months of March and August consistently saw the highest divorce rates, leading the researchers to suggest that this could be a delayed result of Christmas holidays and summer vacations – times when couples try to "fix" their relationships by taking holidays. They noted it takes two to three months to find attorneys, file the paperwork, arrange finances, and even to mount the courage.
The study by associate professor Julie Brines and doctoral candidate Brian Serafini looked at monthly divorce rates from different counties in Washington. Their findings were recently presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in Seattle. [...]
n an attempt to explain this trend, Professor Brines said: "People tend to face the holidays with rising expectations, despite what disappointments they might have had in years past.
"They represent periods in the year when there's the anticipation or the opportunity for a new beginning, a new start, something different, a transition into a new period of life," she added. "It's like an optimism cycle, in a sense. They're very symbolically charged moments in time for the culture."
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