‘ROMANCE has well and truly died for a new breed of British couples who are staying in loveless relationships because joint mortgages and debt mean they cannot afford to move out, according to a new report.

As many as one in 20 couples are staying together because they claim they cannot afford to break up. They have been dubbed the “Money Over Love Couples”. High property prices and rising levels of personal debt are making it increasingly difficult for people to extricate themselves from relationships when things go wrong, according to the survey

Research, carried out for the Skipton Building Society, found that 9 per cent of people said they would be more likely to leave their partner if money was taken out of the equation, while more than one in ten said they knew someone who had continued to live with their ex as a result of financial pressures.’

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