A whole generation lived thru the Great Depression. The divorce rate during the tremendous financial difficulties of the Great Depression never approached what it has been during our time of relative affluence.
Perhaps "financial expectations" would be closer to a cause of today's marital problems.
When my wife and I were married in 1971, we didn't "expect" an expensive honeymoon, big salary, new house, new cars, new furniture, electronic gadgets, computers and other measures of affluence right out of the chute.
We expected to have to WORK for years to improve our creature comforts.
We still don't have all that stuff and DON'T NEED all that stuff. We're still married - 30+ years later.
Nobody wants to wait for anything today. Maybe today's expectations are the problem.
Mrsgwmoore and I married June 21, 1969. We didn't have an expensive wedding or reception (Beer at the Overbrook Italian-American Club in Philly). Several months later, I left on deployment to Vietnam.
When I returned, we neither had expensive tastes, nor ever developed same. We will celibrate #33 in June. We have been in the same house for 30 years. I can state, without caveats, that we have a happy, successful and stable marriage.
I think today's couples have far too many expectations of what they "have to live up to" (money, power, possessions, top of separate careers) to also have what would be called a "happy" marriage.
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