There are many reason why couples in failed relationships remain under one roof. One of the most common is when there is children involved and the parents are trying to minimise the impact of divorce or separation on the child or children. Staying under the same roof because of children is one of several emotional reasons coupled who’s relationship has broken down stay together in their property amongst many emotional reasons.
The economic downturn has added a new reason is forcing couples who have split up and want to go their separate ways into live apart under the same roof by a lack of movement in the housing market.
BBC reported several case of such arrangement including the case of a woman from south east London whose case was reported as follows:
Gemma Appleyard had been with her boyfriend Ben Blackwell for three years when they bought a two bedroom terrace house for £350,000 in Hither Green, south-east London, last June.
At a house-warming party a few months later the couple’s friends kept telling them “you must be so happy”, which Gemma says made her think, “actually I’m not that happy”. By November the couple had broken up.