Can Strain Family Relations Habits that make a good lawyer can ruin a spouse.
Lawyers tend to work very long hours in an adversarial atmosphere that breeds hostility.
We also know that lawyers tend to be perfectionistic and critical and that they are professionally trained to present one-sided arguments. If this isn't a formula for marital challenge, I don't know what is. Research is scant, but the available data on this topic support the idea that law is tough on marriages. Another study by the University of North Carolina has shown that, compared with female physicians and female college professors, female attorneys are least likely to marry or have children, are significantly most likely to get divorced and are least likely to remarry after a divorce. The precise reasons that lawyers' marriages are at risk are largely unresearched.