15 signs that you may end up getting divorced
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You don’t need a Magic 8 Ball to predict whether your marriage will make it. Using data from a number of studies, Anneli Rufus pulled together 15 facts about you and your spouse’s age, kids, and health that all point to the same conclusion: Outlook not so good. She shares the bad news on the Daily Beast:
- Blushing young brides are in trouble: If you marry before age 18, there’s a 48% chance you’ll divorce before you hit 28. Wait till you’re 25, and the risk of splitting within 10 years is cut in half.
- And brides, make sure you’re on the same page about kids: If you want a child more than your hubby does, you’re twice as likely to call it quits as a couple in agreement on the topic—and how many you already have doesn’t matter.
- If you do have kids, pray for a boy and a girl: Have two sons, and your likelihood of getting divorced is 36.9%; have two girls, and you’re saddled with a 43.1% chance.
- Stay healthy: A woman diagnosed with cancer is six times more likely to see her marriage end than if her husband is the one diagnosed.
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Nancy
July 17, 2010 at 11:21 am
Great article! But why couldn’t you have told me all this 30 years ago!!!!! I could have saved alot of energy!!! LOL
MadMike
July 17, 2010 at 11:29 am
Thirty years ago you would never have listened. Wait. Nothing’s changed
Nancy
July 17, 2010 at 12:33 pm
Too Shay! And that’s why I love ya!!!! LOL
Randal Graves
July 17, 2010 at 1:29 pm
The key is to do what I did: find someone equally as lazy to where problems that would lead to a bitter, time-consuming and exhausting divorce for most couples only lead to comfortable silence and the occasional trading of scowls.
fourdinners
July 17, 2010 at 2:27 pm
Let’s see.
Married at 28 – the wifey 27. One daughter between us. A son conceived in the Lake District turns up on my doorstep and the wifey shrugs and asks him in and he stays over for 6 months as he’s skint and I’m his dad…I had no idea until he turned up by the way.
Marriage ain’t heaven. It’s a work in progress. Always will be. You work at it and…just maybe…it works.
Never critisize those who give up – it is hard work in its own way.
Some make it…some don’t.
25 years next March for me and Caz.
We wanted it so we made it.
No regrets.
I love her. (And for some bizarre reason she loves me)