25%? Are you kidding??? I know there are some women who lie, but 25%? That outrageous if actually true.
The study’s finding of 25% struck me as absurdly high but this was a UK study and had to be limited. There was no indication that it applied to the whole population.
But it’s a scary notion when you think about it. Like child abuse which had been swept underneath the rug, this could prove to be another revelation on something we had no idea the extent it existed.
As one woman said to me once about in-law affairs, “You’d be surprised how common it is.”
From that angle, there’s lots of room for these outcomes.