Divorce Rate: Myth or Fact?

[Mover1799Participant 58]

I been arguing with my friend who says the divorce rate in the US is less than 50% and that is a myth, anyone got any facts on this?

[D. KingParticipant 8]

I have no current facts, but whenever divorce rates have been published, in the media, it has always been over 60%.  And I can’t see any reason that that figure would be decreasing.  My daughter can’t get along with her boyfriend TWO SECONDS.  She tries to put it on him, when she’s talking to me.  But, she doesn’t understand that I can hear VERY well what she’s NOT saying.  In addition, I can easily sift through her BS and rather easily “hear” his side, simply by listening to her, and simply by being male and having BEEN there.

Even though she’s just one individual, she’s a good barometer for what’s happening out here.  They all come out of the same, confused, feminist mold, and I hate to say that about my “little girl” (now 34), but, hey, it’s just the truth.

She moved in with him, and the first week he told her that she’d have to contribute to the rent.  She calls me [as if I’m her “girlfriend”], telling me, “He KNOWS that I had NO intention of paying anything!  He knows that.  I have to get myself together,” yada, yada, yada.  First of all, the dude works his ass off, FOR REAL.  Secondly, I could easily guess that he was trying to HELP her [naively, perhaps] get some FIRE up under her ass so that she could get out and get a gig.  I’m sure he would have given her time.

Instead, she left him after the first week.  In her mind, it was “not reasonable” for her to pay rent.  Yeah…right.

Anyway, less than 50%??  I find that impossible to believe.

[BeerParticipant 11832]

I think you should tell your friend you really don’t give a s~~~…because even if you are one of the marriages that doesn’t end in divorce 90% of them end up with a miserable husband and a raging c~~~ wife who is never happy with anything.

[ILiveAgainParticipant]

You cant reason with a blue pill.

Give him a few more years.

 

[The_reality_factorParticipant 211]

A quick search on the Internet and it appears Divorce rates in the US are around 40 – 50% ,with the rate of divorces dropping in recent times. However, marriage rates have also declined. Not really sure if we can make any correlation between the two.

Apart from the above, there are many many who will not leave bad marriages due to financial and other reason – they just hang in there. To be fair, there are possibly women in bad marriages hanging in there for the kids etc.

Most married men I know off, have stated to me that they would never get married again if given the chance. Further, many, if most have stated that they wished they had never got married and had kids in the first place. I know a few guys that are happy with their wives. They are few and far between and they say their wife’s are a decent/good person.

From other statistics I’ve found. Approximately 25% of marriages are sexless – less than 12 sexual encounters a year.

The above statistics DO NOT take into account de-facto relationships.

In reality, looking at the stats. The chances of a long term committed relationship lasting a very long time has the odds of flipping a coin (heads or tails). And it takes 2 people to make it work…if one goes AWOL it’s all over!

[Cap285Participant 6007]

Well, here is what the APA has to say. Not to confused with Farooq and Bradshaw http://www.apa.org/topics/divorce/

Here is another http://www.divorcestatistics.org/

Or, you can get your info from Jizzabell and believe your blue pill friend http://jezebel.com/that-50-percent-divorce-statistic-hasnt-been-true-for-a-1665833364

70% of these are initiated by women, bu when have facts mattered to the blue pill world anyway? Don’t waste your time.

Fuck this planet.

[The_reality_factorParticipant 211]

Nice Capt

From the first one link:

Marriage and divorce are both common experiences. In Western cultures, more than 90 percent of people marry by age 50

 

Didn’t know the above.

2nd marriages are about a 65% chance of Divorce and 3rd marriages are 75%.

Imagine a Surgeon saying before an operation, that you only have a 50% chance of survival or an investment advisor stating that you could lose 50% of your net wealth on this single investment (diversified portfolio anyone!)

MADNESS I tell you!

 

 

[BeerParticipant 11832]

The_reality_factor wrote:

Imagine a Surgeon saying before an operation, that you only have a 50% chance of survival

This is only half what the surgeon says.  He says you have a 50% chance of survival, and a 50% chance of ending up exactly the same with the operation as you would without.  Why take the risk when you really won’t gain anything anyhow?

[Cap285Participant 6007]

The_reality_factor wrote:

Nice Capt

From the first one link:

Marriage and divorce are both common experiences. In Western cultures, more than 90 percent of people marry by age 50

Didn’t know the above.

2nd marriages are about a 65% chance of Divorce and 3rd marriages are 75%.

Imagine a Surgeon saying before an operation, that you only have a 50% chance of survival or an investment advisor stating that you could lose 50% of your net wealth on this single investment (diversified portfolio anyone!)

MADNESS I tell you!

Quite.

Imagine if you wrote marriage up like a contract and handed it to a businessman. He’d think you were crazy.

Fuck this planet.

[Cap285Participant 6007]

Beer wrote:

The_reality_factor wrote:

Imagine a Surgeon saying before an operation, that you only have a 50% chance of survival

This is only half what the surgeon says. He says you have a 50% chance of survival, and a 50% chance of ending up exactly the same with the operation as you would without. Why take the risk when you really won’t gain anything anyhow?

Fuck this planet.

[MOWsince95Participant 1446]

I think the math is it depends what you look at.  Reality Factor above alludes to 2nd marriage divorce rates at 65% and 3rd at 75%.  The serial marriage losers thus up the overall percentage on rounds 2, 3 and 4.  So if 1st marriages succeed say 60% of the time, then a good chunk of the 40% divorced number tries again and again … say 3 in 4 repeat, and then 3 in 4 of those repeat …

So make those assumptions and you get this … starting with 1,000 couples and 75% of divorces repeat the wedding mistake:

• 1st Marriage:  1000 marriages …. 600 succeed, 400 fail  (40% divorce rate, partners of 300 go for 2nd marriages)
• 2nd Marriage:  300 marriages …. 105 succeed, 195 fail  (65% divorce rate, partners of 146 go for 3rd marriages)
• 3rd Marriage:  146 marriages …. 37 succeed, 109 fail  (75% divorce rate, partners of 82 go for 4th marriages)
• 4th Marriage:  82 marriages …. 20 succeed, 62 fail  (75% divorce rate)

In the end you end up with 1,528 total marriages, where 762 succeed and 768 divorced, so the divorce rate is just over 50%.  However of the first marriages, the success rate is 60%, which may be what Mover1799’s friend is referring to.

Mind you the male half of that 60% is likely f~~~ed in the head.  It’s like the old joke:

. . . . . (Q) Why do married men almost always die before their wives?

. . . . . (A) Because they want to.

 

If you are MGTOW when you are young you have no heart.
If you're not MGTOW when you are 20 you have no brain.

[The_reality_factorParticipant 211]

It occurred to me, that the contract of marriage has been totally superseded by Government Legislation. So once you sign on the doted line, you’ve just handed yourself over to the Government..Typically with contractual agreements, you can sue for lack of performance.

Unfortunately, if you’re not a female, the Government  (on or well above average) will go to town on you, simply because you are a male. Throw in the accusations of sexual abuse, domestic violence, child (sexual) abuse, beastiality, wearing womens clothes and underwear, and pulling funny faces at kittens. You pretty much have the State treating you like a terrorist – or worse.

It would be an interesting study to see how many people from 1st marriages get remarried. From my discussions, it does appear to be men remarry quickly as they appear to be on the rebound 🙁 . Personally, when I separated, I bounced off into space…the Manosphere!

Another lot of stats:

50% of the general population have some form of mental health issues. This ranges from depression right through to bat s~~~ crazy.

Of the women population, 80% have some form of mental health issue with the most common ones being depression and anxiety. Add to this self confidence issues, body image issues, worry what other women think, self worth and esteem problems…yep, you read right!…… they are all insane monkeys 😀

[BrainPilotParticipant 7640]

I don’t disagree with any of the facts or statistics presented here. But in the end, the divorce odds I care most about are my own. I have to make my plans and decisions on MY personal specific odds of divorce.

After a long and very careful set of calculations in which all variables have been considered, I have determined with complete certainty that my personal odds of divorce are exactly ZERO!

Three guesses on how I achieved that certainty… 😛

Look, it's not my fault that tornado dropped a house on your sister. Now get back on your broom and get your ass out of here... and take your monkeys with you

[RoyDalParticipant]

The_reality_factor wrote:

Government  (on or well above average) will go to town on you,

That makes the govt the biggest white knight there is, and it’s a WK equipped with badges, guns, and prisons. Sign the dotted line, if you dare!

Society asks MGTOWs: Why are you not making more tax-slaves?

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