Divorce

We discussed the topic of divorce and came across some interesting statistics.  70% of divorced couples 2 years later said they probably could have saved their married and they realize they probably should have.  70% of men are remarried after 2 years of being divorced and woman are less likely to remarry rapidly.  The last bit of information was that the majority of people who had an affair don’t get a divorce.  All of these statistics jumped out to me.  Divorce is such a common occurrence in our society today and when many people get married they have the idea that if anything goes wrong there is divorce and that’s ok.  I think that these statistics should be shown to couples before they get married so that they may have the thought in their mind that if times get rough they should try their hardest to push through and actually work the problem out.  We talked about one of the causes being that couple’s first stop being intimate or have intimacy problems but don’t share that and then other problems start to pile up.  A marriage should be built up so that anything can be talked about.  If you can’t talk to one another about your intimacy than you should be reevaluating other parts of the marriage and try to become closer so it is easier to discuss.