Jennifer Weiner posits that while watching soccer is gay in one sense of the word, it is not prima facie evidence of a husband's homosexuality per se, unless accompanied by "multitasking". But it increases the divorce rate, especially when he likes it, she doesn't, and he lives in a country where men possess the power of unilateral divorce, according to a study by Hamdi Abdul Azeem and Mona el-Sayyed Hafez of Ain Shams University in Cairo. It said "divorce rates tended to spike during the Premier League season ... soccer-addicted husbands were in need of psychological help, which they seldom sought." It cites household tensions over differences in interest in soccer, support of different teams, and husbands' expenditures of money and family time on soccer, to the extent of canceling family vacations.
Soccer loving spouses 'up divorce risk' - The Egyptian Gazette.
Soccer is at the root of high Egyptian divorce rate - Al Arabiya -- this story by Mideast Soccer blogger and former Wall Street Journal writer James M. Dorsey says that in Egypt, "discussing divorce has long been taboo even though it has one of the Arab world’s highest divorce rates."
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