Betrayal through “social media” leads the causes of marital disputes

Betrayal, through social media, topped the list of causes of marital disputes during 2015, according to what was revealed in the files of the “Family Consulting Service” provided by the Family and Youth Department, in the Dubai Community Development Authority.

The head of the Family and Youth Department in the Family Coheat Administration at the Community Development Authority in Dubai, Naama Khalfan Al Shamsi, told «Emirates Today» that the establishment of relations and their development with people other than partners using the available means of communication through social media such as chat networks «WhatsApp) and Facebook, recorded the highest percentage of the total reasons that led to problems and conflicts between husbands, during 2015.

She pointed out that the number of family counseling sessions conducted by family specialists in the body last year reached 1225 sessions, in order to deal with 245 cases of disagreement and family problem received by the family cohesion department, stressing that the authority was able to solve the problems and issues received by it by 98%.

Al -Shamsi explained that writing messages, exchanging texts, images and videos, and spending hours of audio dialogue as well as visible through websites and networks, such as “Skype” led to the ignition of disputes between husbands, where one of them searches in the carrier or computer for the other when noticing his preoccupation and lack of interest in the family and children , Which leads to the exposure of the traitorous party.

Reports and studies indicate the negative effects of the wrong use of social media, including the accumulation of mental images on the pictures of the beautiful and attractive woman of her husbands, which are often deceptive and unrealistic images, but they are stored in their minds and lead them to comparisons with the wife that are not in Most often for its benefit, which smarter is tension and the causes of disagreement between the spouses.

According to studies published on social media with electronic addiction and the dominant power of social media, which increases the severity of the dispute between the spouses due to the preoccupation of husbands in most of their time inside and outside the home by following what these sites publish, which leads to problems that amount to separation and divorce.

In addition, Al -Shamsi reported that the inability to understand the nature of the problem and analyze its various aspects and how to deal with it came in the second order of the reasons that led to the differences between husbands, who used family consulting specialists in the authority to resolve differences between them.

The number of family consultations provided by the Community Development Authority in Dubai, for community members and citizenship and resident families, during the year 2014, reached about 1500 consultations, at a monthly rate exceeding 120 consultations. Last year, the commission also launched the “Falak Tayyib” initiative, which aims to educate employees in the public and private sectors and train them to balance the pressures of work and life in a way that ensures the stability of their family lives.

It is noteworthy that those wishing to obtain family consultations can communicate with the authority and mobilize the request electronically, where it is read and dealt with by the specialist concerned, who in turn does not disclose any information about the situation he follows, in line with the assets and controls of the profession that requires the preservation of privacy and maintaining a relationship Confidence with the customer in force with the regulations and laws in force.