Divorce rate about 50% for first marriages. For previously divorced people, remarriage divorces are at about 75%.
Really sad numbers and especially the remarriage divorces. I’d like to see the breakdown of those numbers. How many, for example, remarried rather quickly after the initial divorce(rebound marriages)? How many re-married after three or four years? After six or seven? I’d guess the divorce rates for those who waited longer after the initial divorce would be lower. I might be very wrong too.
Can you give me a link to the rates you quote? Thanks.
I’ve never seen that statistic with the 75%.
I watch too many of the Discovery ID shows, though, and it’s made me wonder how many previously divorced remarriages end in murder.
So, if I made a mistake the first time and got a woman who really didn’t love me is it your contention that I should just give up and spare the rest of womandom the pain of dealing with me?
Are those who have been through a divorce now damaged and no longer worthy of happiness with another person?
I see a lot of this sentiment here on FR and I am curious about it.
I mean, with no fault divorce laws it is easy to get a divorce. And, contrary to popular opinion it does not take two to ruin a relationship, only one will suffice.
As to your statistics about marriage, nothing more than urban legend.
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/d/divorce.htm#.U5T2yvmIB8E
I heard about a week ago it was 60% of remarriages divorce...maybe it was an old statistic?
In spending a lot of years single in my youth, I learned that “most men are all alike, they just have different faces so we can tell them apart.” The saying was ‘men’ and I added ‘most men’ because there are exceptions to every rule.....a little humor. :)
Most men expect the woman to do all the cooking, laundry, cleaning, and hold a full time job...then take care of the children’s diapers, baby food, and baths. Tell me, just what is their part in marriage? A few change a few diapers and cook a meal now and then, and others do the laundry; while shrinking your favorite clothes that weren’t supposed to be dried on high heat.
The point being that divorces may have something to do with ‘women and men are not created equal when it comes to the marital division of chores. That old stereotype for women was okay fifty years ago when the woman stayed home, but now the division of labors should be a shared responsibility.
Men have an advantage as there are 10 women to every man, then take out all those who aren’t interested in women, then you know finding a good man is like a good parking space “all the good ones are taken”.
My spouse is ill, but was very supportive and helpful when he could over the years. I disagree that divorced men are best to date and marry...evidently, they didn’t train well the first time, so what chance is there on a second try.,,,lol