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If you are reading this on your way to work， then your marriage may already be in trouble. Long comments to work make it more likely a marriage will fail， a study has found. Those who spend a long time on trains or stuck in cars shuttling to the office are up to 40 percent more likely to split from their spouse. The risk is highest in the first few years of marriage when the dream of life together gives way to the daily grind， the study showed. Experts said that if one partner - most likely the husband - spends 45 minutes or more commuting they would come home too tired to help around the house. This would create a breeding ground for conflict that would leave the other person feeling like they are being take for granted. The Swedish study looked at statistical data from two million Swedish households between 1995 and 2000. The researchers from Umea University cited the figure of 45 minutes as the kind of commute which could do damage to relationships. They found that in families where the man commutes， the woman is often forced to take a less qualified job closer to home， which means both less money as well as a larger share of the responsibility for kids and household. In the first few years of marriage the risk of divorce is 40 per cent higher if one partner has to travel to work. In Britain millions of commuters now take at least an hour to get to work and the number of commuters travelling for more than an hour has risen by 22 per cent in the past decade. Britishs now endure the second longest commute in Europe at 54 minutes a day. | 
