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i just wanted to know since they’re alotta ppl divorcing right now…..
current statistics say 50-50.
50% percent of first marriages, 67% of second and 74% of third marriages end in divorce, according to Jennifer Baker of the Forest Institute of Professional Psychology in Springfield, Missouri.
According to enrichment journal on the divorce rate in America:
The divorce rate in America for first marriage is 41%
The divorce rate in America for second marriage is 60%
The divorce rate in America for third marriage is 73%
Details of how this breaks down by age bracket and by first or second marriage can be found here
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The odds of a successful marriage are only as good as the couple makes it and wants it to be. Marriages don’t just get ‘bad’ or ‘unfulfilling’ people let them get that way. JMHO!
Marriage takes work, and if you don’t do the work then it’ll run off into the ditch pretty fast.