Partnership splits
With all of the recent splits in ice dance & pairs, I was just wondering if those of y'all who have actually skated or have IRL connections to skating have any insight as to some of the less obvious reasons at play here. Obviously I know splits often happen bc of age, injury, desire to retire from skating/move on to other life goals, etc. But this year in particular there seem to be a lot of splits where both partners intend to continue skating, which rules out the above listed issues.
The reason I'm asking is that I was having a conversation with a long time friend today about how communication issues/personality conflicts seem to the the biggest issue in everything from marriages to workplaces. Basically we as humans just suck at communicating! In my career field (healthcare) communication errors are well known to be the root cause of errors. All of this got me to thinking that perhaps many of the splits we're saying are rooted in the same thing- communication issues & general personality conflicts. I mean as closely as these skaters have to work together, I can see how that could become an issue. But I can also see how that would be difficult to address or to disclose publicly. No one wants to go on record saying "Yeah, we just don't get along anymore."
To be clear, this is NOT a request for gossip on any particular partnership. Just general musing about human nature & how that impacts skating.