I think that almost everything can be worked through. Adultery and physical abuse are about the only two reasons for divorce in my opinion.
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"Error never shows itself in its naked reality in order not to be discovered. On the contrary, it dresses elegantly, so that the unwary may be led to believe that it is more truthful than truth itself."
-Irenaeus of Lyon
The National Center for Health Statistics estimated that in 1993, about 1,187,000 U.S. divorces were granted, affecting 1,075,000 children. The numbers don't tell how many of those were re/divorces. The "/" means that it may have been a stepparent's first union. In 1996, the government stopped compiling statistics on national marriage and divorce patterns, so meaningful stepfamily re/divorce-rate estimates are not available.
At that average rate, during each 25-year generation there are ~60 million American men and women and over 27 million children affected emotionally, spiritually, developmentally, and financially by marital and biofamily separations and the stressors that cause them. These numbers exclude millions of co-parents and kids living in daily misery because marital separation or legal divorce are not practical options. I've found no statistics that suggest the number of psychological divorces in our communities and families. The total number of people directly afflicted by legal and psychological divorce is surely far greater than those affected by AIDS...
Roughly 70% of divorced American women and men remarry within 10 years. About 70% of them are parents. Lay and clinical authors writing about stepfamilies erroneously claim that over half of U.S. stepfamilies legally re/divorce within 10 years of re/wedding, compared to ~47% of first recent marriages. The 60% estimate applies to all re/divorces, not just stepfamilies.
I think that almost everything can be worked through. Adultery and physical abuse are about the only two reasons for divorce in my opinion.
I've never been, but some good friends of mine have gone through hell in ugly divorces. Unless something like FroMan mentioned occured, I would avoid it at all costs. MHO.
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
-Henry David Thoreau
I went to a wedding anniversary party for a couple who were celebrating 60 years together. They said the only reason they never divorced was because they could never agree on when to do it - truth.
It may be easier to stay together that go through divorce.
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Me and the missus have been through some rough times.
If you don't know them well enough to get married - don't get married.
Divorce is not an option. Too many people have stars in their eyes when they get married and when it's not all the glitz and glamour they thought they were going to have, they split.
BTW: statistically over the age of 40, 70% of divorce proceedings are put forth by women.
Divorce................
