Happy holidays indeed: prepared to get dumped…

Summer is supposed to be the most romantic season of the year, when holiday romances thrive and the sun is shining.

But according to a card retailer,

The Card and Gift Company already sells cards congratulating the newly divorced or single, but the people behind the site have received hundreds of emails and phone calls requesting a ?you?re dumped card.

1545328_blog.jpgDr David Holmes, a senior psychology lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University is not surprised by these findings: ?It?s a common misconception that summer is the time when love blossoms and relationships thrive.

?But it?s actually far more likely that, while contemplating your life back at home when on holiday, we are most likely to make important and strategic life changing decisions.

?Other research has shown that you?re most likely to review your career during summer so it fits that this theory should extend to one?s relationship and personal life,? he said.

It certainly makes sense ? our everyday lives can be so busy and stressful, we don?t get a chance to take stock of our lives. But when we go on holiday, we feel confident and rejuvenated, and more able (and likely, by all accounts) to make major decisions and improve our lives back home.?

Joycellyn Akuffo

Founder and editor of www.motherswhowork.co.uk, a mother of two wonderful children, wife, entrepreneur (check out www.geekschool.co.uk) and journalist.

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