Top 5 Reasons Sex Addiction-Afflicted Couples Call It Quits

Now that Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren have officially split (and she's spilled the beans about the break-up to People Magazine), it's safe to say that Elin wasn't swayed by Tiger's claim to be a "sex addict."

But do sex addicts deserve our sympathy or our scorn? Is it even a real disease?

For that and more, we turn to the founding director of Los Angeles-based Sexual Recovery Institute, Robert Weiss. He offers professional insight into what is often behind the decision for spouses of sex addicts to move on:

"Unfortunately togetherness is not always in the cards for the spouses and families affected by sexual addiction. Approximately twenty percent of married clients seen for sexual addiction treatment do not remain together in the first year following the shock of what often are horrendous disclosures of infidelity."

"Couples affected by sex addiction are less likely to stay together when:

1. They are married less than five years before discovery.

2. They do not follow-through on long-term recommendations for individual and family therapy.

3. There were multiple recent experiences of broken promises and betrayal.

4. A couple did not know each other well before marriage.

5. The details of the betrayal have become well known among family, friends, and the general public."