👰♀️ Divorce 🤵🏻
Good News… I’m NOT getting one!
but some interesting stats:
- 40–50% of first marriages in America eventually end in divorce
- Lowest divorce rates are among couples where both spouses hold college degrees
- 50% eventually end in divorce
- Average first marriage ending in divorce lasts 8 years
- Highest divorce risk window: 5–8 years
- Divorce risk drops significantly after 20 years
- 20% of first marriages end within 5 years
- 33% end within 10 years
- 40–45% end within 15 years
- 60–67% of second marriages end in divorce
- 70–75% of third marriages end in divorce
Top 3 factors most commonly cited in divorce:
- Communication problems / constant conflict
- Financial stress & money disagreements
- Infidelity / loss of trust
Income & divorce correlation:
- Couples earning under ~$50K annually have significantly higher divorce rates
- Couples earning $100K+ have some of the lowest divorce rates
- Financial stress is one of the strongest predictors of marital conflict and divorce
- Dual-income households tend to have more stable marriages than financially strained households
- Married couples with children have lower divorce rates than couples without children
- Roughly 40% of divorcing couples in America have children under 18.
watch Natalie (nprofile…66u7) most recent pod
& don’t get divorced 💪🏽
MattA
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2026-05-07 20:03:21 UTC
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