Warmer weather increases break-ups, says psychologist

Increase and decrease in sunlight has something to do with the warm weather break-ups

Break-up’s increase as the warm and sunny weather arrives, according to psychologists. Spring brings break-up along as it ends the relations formed during the cold lonely winter months, according to Independent.

Dr Danielle Forshee, psychologist and social worker, said the decrease in sunlight and the increase in sunlight during summer has something to do with the increase in warm weather break-ups.

She told Cosmopolitan that cuffing season occurs because “there’s a decrease in sunlight, and the body is producing more melatonin, a hormone that responds to darkness and makes you tired, and producing less serotonin, the neurotransmitter that makes us feel happy and good”.



"But as the sunlight comes out more, the brain produces less melatonin and more serotonin, making you feel happier, you may not feel such a need to be around someone else to provide that sense of security and happiness,” she said.

Spring is marked as an uncuffing season, the season is defined as: “Usually during the spring and summer months when people who were previously in relationships during the winter break-up with their girlfriend or boyfriend to be free for the summer and warm months so you can play the field and not be tied down.”

Facebook data also supported the claims of having phrases like “breakup” and “broken up” in spring break according to 2010 analysis and findings.

Happy relationships transform into full-blown summer flings by August.

The article originally appeared in Independent.