Study: Men officially cads, 6X more likely to divorce wife with MS than vice versa

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Researchers have found that "when a woman gets news of a life-threatening illness, her husband is six times more likely to leave her than if the tables were turned and the man got the bad news."

The study included diagnoses of both cancer and multiple sclerosis and found an overall divorce rate of nearly 12 percent, which is similar to that found in the normal population.

"But when the researchers looked at gender differences, they found the rate was nearly 21 percent when women were the patients compared with about 3 percent when men got the life-threatening diagnosis."

When I told my wife Laura about this news, she replied, "Well, I thought I was special--I guess I'm just in the run-of-the-mill 97th percentile."

We had a laugh, but divorce can be serious business (and unfortunately common) when it comes to families coping with MS. Read the full story here and feel free to chime in with your personal experiences:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33832513/ns/health-cancer/