And for that matter, how do you know that other (american) women haven't also going through difficult times in their marriages and stayed? You seem to have a lot of male friends who couldnt' keep a marriage together so they blame their wives. How much of it was their fault?
Blaming American women for the divorce rate is as stupid as attibuting sustained marriage on marrying a foreigner - some marriages work, and some don't - but you want to blame bad marriage on women when you already admitted you were not respectful of your own wife in your marriage.
You’re welcome to try to make it about me, and that’s fine, I have thick skin and so does my airhead wife (I check, she’s cool with me saying it, anonymously).
I just point the facts and there are two as far as I’m concerned: (1) A marriage to someone from a culture that still values marriage has a MUCH HIGHER chance of success. (2) I am in what we both consider to be a happy marriage because that culture encouraged my wife to stick it out...and we BOTH came out ahead because of it. It’s a shame that generally doesn’t hold for domestic women.