Ireland from a Polish perspective

Not so long ago – in fact just a couple of days ago – I described growing tendency of moving families, including pets, to Ireland or UK by Polish emigrants. People decide to stay for a long period and they don’t want to being alone and for sure they don’t want be parted with their wives, husbands, children and even pets. It is quite obvious that there is impossible to keep and carry on family life while one is in Ireland and other is in Poland or somewhere else (England, Italy).

Leading Polish newspaper – Gazeta Wyborcza – noticed growing percentage of divorces due to long term separation and marriage breakdown. In the far south-eastern region of Poland (Podkarpacie) separation because of emigration one of the couple taken about 30 per cent of marriages to get divorced. Sometimes husband lives in Ireland and his wife lives in England, and they come to Poland only for divorce case.

In that region of Poland it is becoming the dominant reason of divorces instead of domestic violence and alcoholism. In the overall percentage of whole Poland those cases are still not so frequent, but they are expected to became very common in the next 12 months.

It is impossible to have family life and to keep marriage alive being 1000 km away for a couple of years or so. Married couple can’t share problems, worries and happiness of daily life, and it is sure that most of us can’t stay alone for a long time, that is why people start new relationships if they wives, husbands or just girlfriends or boyfriends are in Poland or in Ireland.

I am the man who is almost always away due to my occupation and activities (archaeologist and musician), and I can see that many of my friends or archaeologists I know divorced at least once.

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