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A third of married people in Britain have misgivings about their marriage, new research has found, with 1.4 million of those currently wed admitting they walked down the aisle with the wrong person and more than three quarters of a million regretting ever tying the knot.
According to the study by Direct Line Insurance, over one million people say they married their partner for all the wrong reasons, while more than 1.2 million of married couples got together, or remain married, for the sake of their children.
The research also exposes the extent of Britain’s infidelity, with over 1.6 million (six per cent) people currently married saying they regret cheating on their partner and having an affair.
However, it is not only affairs that have got people looking elsewhere; ‘the one that got away’ still haunts over two and a half million currently married (10%), who regret what happened with the love they didn’t marry. This regret is felt even more keenly in divorced adults, with nearly a quarter (700,000) of divorcees still wondering what could have been with ‘the one that got away’.
Other misgivings experienced by married people include the belief they got married too early and didn’t make the most of their earlier independence, which was mentioned by 10%, or 2.4 million people. Ten per cent (2.6 million) regret not spending more time single, or not being more adventurous, with 9% (2.3 million) annoyed they didn’t date more people.
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