'Our ultimate goal in life!' 'Our most important decision we gonna make on this earth!'
Or so the world makes us believe. Choosing a life partner can be a difficult and frightening thing when you hear the horror divorce and cheating stories, where one or both parties get hurt and scarred for life.
But no worries GaG-friends, I got your back. Below I'm gonna list statistically proven points to look for when committing to someone. Have fun!
PS! By no means do you need all or any of the points to have an happy marriage but they do help a lot!
Beliefs
Going into a marriage with husband and wife holding a strong personal conviction that marriage is for life protects against divorce.
Desire for Children
A marriage in which the wife desires children but the husband does not is at a 50 percent greater risk of divorce.
Living together under a roof
Cohabiting couples have a 50-80 percent higher likelihood of divorce than non-cohabiting couples.
Age Difference
Marriages where there is a significant difference in age have twice the risk of divorce than those in which the couples are close in age (0-6 years).
Children
Having one’s first child after marriage reduces divorce risk somewhere between 24 and 66 percent.
Education
Only 27 percent of college graduates will divorce by middle age.
Religion
those with a strong common faith have a 7-14 percent lower risk of divorce. However, having a nominal faith has no protective effect.
Sexual History
marrying as non-virgins is associated with “considerably higher” risk of divorce and “dramatically more unstable first marriages.”
Family Background
having parents who have never divorced reduces divorce risk by 14 percent.
Marital History
being previously divorced markedly elevates one’s risk of divorce.
Smoking and Drugs
couples in which one partner smokes and the other does not are markedly more likely to divorce compared to couples in which neither spouse does. Marriages in which both smoke were more than twice as likely to dissolve compared with non-smoking couples.
Income
having a collective annual household income of $50,000 or more is associated with a 30 percent lower divorce risk.
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