When you include the union that ended in death, that's a marital success rate of 83 percent, significantly higher than the oft-quoted 50 percent national average.Those who get divorced often marry and divorce again and again. That skews the statistics.
I wonder how large that class was in the beginning? There were 13 marriages between class members (and many more between members of the class before, or after) of my class of 1956 that numbered 600. But this author mis-counts the number of pieces of jewelry — he forgets about the ID bracelets and class rings that were exchanged. And he ignores letter jackets that were draped over the girls’ shoulders by their sweeties. I married a classmate almost 51 years ago with a plain gold band and got my “engagement ring” on our 20th anniversary.
I don’t know where we stand on the “still married” count. I can think of 2 divorces right off the bat, but nobody thought those marriages would last in the first place. But there have been numerous deaths of one party — one tragically within a year of the marriage and one within one month of our 50th reunion. In fact, I can think of only 2 couples who are still married — my husband and myself and a pair of good friends of ours.
In fact, I think that meeting your spouse in school is the best way. Particularly if you have had classes together — although I never had that privilege with mine. You learn a lot about a person watching him/her answer questions in class.