This isn’t the first time I’ve heard that first marriages last 75% of the time. And the 25% who get divorced and remarried tend to get divorced again and mess up the overall statistics.
I wish they included some of the raw numbers in this article though.
I have two sisters who have married multiple times, while I have remained married only once over the same time period.
I agree, the numbers are skewed in that those who divorce once have a 100 percent divorce rate, and they are more likely to divorce again. So that 50% total divorce rate - per marriage- may be correct, but misleading!
I think the OP is correct in that per person, the divorce rate, or the chance an individual in their first marriage will ever get divorced is much, much lower.