Your stats are for shi*. The only stats that matter to me are these: I’ve been married to the same women for almost 30 years. This is the only marriage either of us have had. Also, my mom and dad were married for more than 42 years before she passed away. My brother is on his 28th year of marriage(no others). My sister is on her 26th year of marriage(no others). On my wife’s side, her mom and dad were married for 50 plus years before her father passed. her brother is on his 33rd year of marriage(no others), her older sister is on her 31st year of marriage(no others) and her other sister is on her 29th year of marriage. Again, no others. Your stats are wrong, and I don’t care how reliable you say they are.
You are too funny. Your anecdotal experiences are hardly the norm in modern america. Yet you think because you have experienced them, actual marriage stats collected by the states and then reviewed by the cdc must be wrong because they contradict 8 marriages you cite.
I can congratulate you all for being in 4-7% of first marriages lasting longer than 10 years.
And fyi, they are not “my” stats, be angry at the cdc and the states for collecting analyzing and reporting on the data.
You really don’t understand statistics, do you?
OK, you answered my questions. You are at least 50 years old and born in the 1960s with a very different experience of marriage than today. Your values and those of your wife were forged in a nuclear family very different from children growing up today. Divorced men dating today have a very different experience than you had dating your wife 30 years ago.
So while your good marriage is wonderful it is also not terribly uncommon among people born in the 1960s. That you were born in an era that made marriage generally workable for men does not speak to the current era. So thanks for playing, but your experience is way out of date to be speaking to marriages today.
Congratulations on your good marriage. That is not terribly uncommon for people born in the 1950s or 1960s. Those born in the 1980s or early 1990s have a completely different experience than you had. Those divorcing and dating today have a completely different experience than you had. Your wonderful marriage does not mean that marriage TODAY is generally a good deal for men. It is not, today.
I’ve been married to the same women for almost 30 years.How many women? That may be the secret.