Oprah quoted this statistic the other day on her show. She said, "MORE than 50% of marriages today end in divorce". This blew my mind! It seemed incredibly high to me. It's not that I don't believe that the divorce rate is high, because I know it is. I think it has gotten entirely too easy to get married and then get out of a marriage these days. What do you guys think?
2006-10-27 14:45:06 · 12 answers · asked by milldan65 4 in Family & Relationships ➔ Marriage & Divorce
Thanks everyone for all the answers. I had some really good answers and it was hard to pick just one. I never anticipated that this question would cause so many problems. There were people that took this question as an opportunity to rage on people because of the unfortunate circumstances of their own lives. I wish I could give a worst answer because this person needs to take a valium and stop blaming their problems on everyone else.
2006-10-29 04:30:59 · update #1
I believe that, and it's true. There's also been a statement made on Oprah, that blew my mind, that people now a days like when you buy your first house, it's a starter house, there's the term now as starter marriage, you get the marriage, but after the divorce you can find what you didn't get the first time. Which I think is really sad. I think people before getting married should go through pre-marriage counceing, and when problems arise get counceling, it makes a BIG difference. My wife and I are going through counceling for issues in our marriage and it's made a BIG difference in us.
The biggest enemy to marriages is today's culture saying that we have to think of ourselves first, it's all about me. Well that's no way to make a marriage work, when my wife and I got married, part of our vows was that the 2 became 1 flesh.
I think it's really sad that when problems come up people are so quick to divorce. One term that I absolutely hate is when couples divorce and use the term ireconsilable differences. I hate that. Because to me it seems like there are differences that they won't or don't even want to try to reconsile. I think if people put more into making their marriages work, we wouldn't have the divorce rates as high as they are.
My parents celebrated their 36th wedding anniversary earlier this month and I look up to them, and hope and pray that my wife and I can stay married that long or longer.
Hope that this helps. Take care and God Bless
2006-10-27 14:52:44 · answer #1 · answered by Bryan M 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes unfortunately this is true, and I really think people should do the pre-marital counseling as well. My husband and I have had many trials in our marriage and as easy as it was for us to divorce neither of us really had the heart to do so. If you stop and think about it, look at all the celebrities that get married and divorce quickly.....they raise the statistics even higher, don't you think? I never said I got a divorce and it isn't easy to do either, but people these days think I will get married and if it don't work oh well I can get a divorce. You twisted my words around tyvm. It is up to the couple to make it work.
2006-10-27 14:57:47 · answer #2 · answered by Melanie S 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
These Marriage Statistics (50/50) have been talked about for as long as I can remember. It's up to us to make our marriage work. Is it too easy to get divorce(?), ummm....have you been divorced? It's expensive, a pain in the @ss, time consuming, emotionally & finanicially devastating, you loose half of everything, your kids end up in a torn home - you now only see them half of the time, compared to all of the time - you watch your kids go through pain, confusion, and unjust hurt - NO divorce is not easy on anyone. WE need to go into marriage with a "no matter what happens, we are going to stick it out". It's the damn cheaters that shouldn't ever get married. Why bother if you can't love one person for the rest of your life. If you cannot say no to temptation - DONT GET MARRIED, and by all means DONT HAVE KIDS.
2006-10-27 14:58:41 · answer #3 · answered by Carey L 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Its true, and if you want one to blow your mind further most experts on affairs say that 4 out of 5 marriages will be touched by infidelity at some point during the relationship, this means emotional and or physical infidelity.
2006-10-27 14:49:47 · answer #4 · answered by OleMarbleEyes 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes I believe it. there's only so much one person can do. if there are problems in the marriage and one of the partners completely refuses to seek professional help of any kind, you run out of alternatives. Your miserable, your spouse is miserable and god help the kids.
2006-10-27 14:58:45 · answer #5 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
easy for who? the ease of it depends your own beliefs, not the statistics. If you want to discover the rise in divorce, look into the decline of spiritual beliefs.
2006-10-27 14:56:55 · answer #6 · answered by out of order 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes, because both off them never solves problem just try to said they never suitable each other so quit ,and now its easy to get together and if u never like together so divorced.
2006-10-27 14:52:59 · answer #7 · answered by sabeena 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
to be exact its 67% divorce rate... and yes, its horrible i know,
2006-10-27 14:49:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yep!
2006-10-27 17:20:10 · answer #9 · answered by Esther 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love it..I think woman are finally realise that they don't have to beaten or kicked around anymore.
2006-10-27 14:49:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋