I have had people of different ethnicities within my old highrise ask me why don't American marriages last....

Question

What do I tell them................?

Answer 1

Just be honest. Our culture is really f***ed up. We are always complaining about our high divorce rates yet we accept all sorts of infedelity or lewed behavior from our most elite "so called celebrities". Look at Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. You would think Angelina was mother theresa the way the media worships her. I hardly ever hear anyone berating her for knowing pursuing a relationship with a married man, neither do I hardly hear anyone giving Brad Pitt a hard time for cheating on his ex-wife Jennifer Aniston. Instead our great media hounds would rather portray poor Jenn as a woman scorned and Brad and Angelina as the perfect hollywood couple regardless of the circumstances behind how they hooked up with each other. I just think it is all disgusting.

Anyways. With crap like this being poured down our throats on a "daily" basis it just seems like the norm to get married and then promptly divorce when the grass seems greener on the other side. We have no good role models and no penalties in place that would deterr such actions. We have our priorties all screwed up.