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    Divorce rate at lowest in over 30 years

    How do you think the divorce rates of today will effect the children of tomorrow?

    The article did mention that the kids from the 70's saw their parents get divorced and seem to take marriage much more seriously than before. Basically they dont want to end up like their parents. I also have a question for people who are divorced: Do you think your divorce was the result of poor planning for the life of marriage?
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    Yes, I do think that a lot of them are based on poor planning. I'm not divorced, but I have friends who are younger than me and divorced who used me as a shrink. Marriage is a serious commitment. While I don't poo-poo divorce, and I fully encourage people to leave situations that are chronically unhappy, I think that too many people don't take it seriously and think more of the infatuation of young/new love and the novelty of a fairytale wedding than a lifelong commitment.

    My friend went to a Christian college, and she told me why so many marriage went wrong:
    People like this grow up thinking that marriage is the only proper relationship, and that sex before marriage is evil. Therefore, you have a bunch of very lovesick, very inexperienced, very HORNY people latching onto the first person they fall for and marry ASAP. However, a couple years later, they wonder what the fuck they got themselves into. They never got to know the people they married, the newlywed phase is over, and they never thought past their own idealisms. Even if they're not Christian, a lot of people still do it out of shortsightedness. When I got engaged, my husband and I swore to get to know each other in every way so we knew what we were getting into. We lived with each other, smelled each others' stinky morning breath, farted in front of each other, etc. We also went to counseling and talked about EVERYTHING, like having kids, our opinions and idealisms, our expectations, growing old together, etc.

    My cousin actually told me, "Yeah, I'll probably divorce my first husband, but then the second will be the real one." That's sad.

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    I think my divorce was just because I was stupid and shouldn't have married him in the first place. I saw signs and ignored them. Ladies, listen to your parents and your friends. They can see things from the outside that you can't.

    I also read that the divorce rate is dropping because more people are living together and not getting married. I think it's a good idea to test the waters before you sign that contract! Great post by the way

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    RElated but unrelated, sorry to threadjack: Statistics will say that people who live together before marriage are more likely to get divorced. Some hidden factors are that people who don't live together before marriage are more likely to be religious or have certain morals and are less likely to get divorced because of these same set of morals.

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    I would never purchase a car without test-driving it. And damned if I'm going to make a permanent commitment to a life partner without test-driving our compatibility, either. I am a firm believer in shacking up first!

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    Default Re: Divorce rate falls

    Maybe the divorce rate has started to fall because the marriage rate has fallen so much...

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