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I agree with VydorScope, and am similarly happily married after 18 years (Oh! My back!) whilst self-publishing. It's true that divorce is too wide-spread to be blamable on one particular industry or activity.
Like so many other activities, a participant needs a partner who is either tolerant of the activity (like my wife), or interested in helping with the activity; in other words, if one of those men had partners who were interested in aiding them with design or promotion, say, with the understanding that they'd share in the potential profits (or at least your enhanced affections for their effort), they might have a healthier marriage.
Not that it's necessarily all the partner's fault; the writers could make more of an effort to spend more time with them and (if necessary) do more of their writing-related activities during times when the partner isn't around, is asleep, is working on their own projects, etc. This is how my marriage works: I basically give up sleep to write, and do the rest where I find the time (which probably has a lot to do with my lousy sales!).
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