Divorce rates in UK and worldwide

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Rose65

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I was idly conjecturing how many people reach retirement still married. Upon looking up divorce rates I was amazed it's 42% here in the UK, that is very high. Looking at other countries it is interesting that Maldives has the highest rate in the world, wonder why? Sounds like a paradise there to me but obviously isn't!

India has the lowest rate. Fascinating to look at the reasons for divorce - one reason in India is listed as leprosy. I suppose that is understandable.
 

fuzzybuddy said:
It's strange. I worked with mostly women. THE wedding was always a big thing. My buddy's really wanted a home, wife, kids and a dog. But they're all on their second/third divorces.
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People are ever hopeful, sadly happiness can be hard to find and keep.
 

Marriage and divorce are two life subjects I have read little about so don't know anything about what social research blames that on. But in this era one can simply web search and find summary information on endless unfamiliar subjects.

Divorce Statistics: How Many Marriages End in Divorce?
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Common causes of divorce. According to research from 2013, these are some of the most common reasons for divorce:
  • lack of commitment
  • infidelity, extra-marital affairs
  • financial problems
  • getting married too young
  • high conflict/ too much fighting
  • communication issues
  • substance misuse
  • domestic violence
  • lack of support from family
  • little or no premarital education
  • religious differences...

3. “Gray divorce” is on the rise. Though the divorce rate is decreasing for younger people, it’s roughly doubled among U.S. adults ages 50 and older since the 1990s. In 2015, 10 in every 1,000 married persons 50 and older got divorced. In 1990, this number was 5.
4. Neuroticism lowers satisfaction in marriage. One study from 2020 found that partners high in neuroticism experience lower levels of marital satisfaction. Neuroticism is a personality trait linked to an increase in negative emotions, including: irritability, anxiety, self‐consciousness, depression, emotional instability. In contrast, couples high in carefulness or diligence are more satisfied with their marital life.
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I'll add anecdotally sadly that in my urban region during my career for those exposed to lots of other people, especially through work environments, there are many men, especially more physically attractive or wealthy married men, that will pursue relationships via at first slight flirting with not only single women but also indiscriminately with any other married women that react to their advances.

And likewise there fair numbers of physically attractive or wealthy single men that will try and hit on married women, especially attractive women. And then too, are reasonably attractive married women that will flirt with attractive wealthy professional men as though they are fishing for a life upgrade.

Personally, for these reasons, I expect another reason not listed above for increasing divorce rates is due to greater opportunity for extra-marital affairs versus the era I grew up with when more were house wives. I've prefaced the above with "attractive" because the vast majority of ordinary people from A to Z, are far less physically attractive than even modestly attractive people, much less those strikingly so. And much of that with women is about facial beauty while with men it is still somewhat about facial handsomeness while more so about height, wealth, and power. A world most people simply in whatever social orbit they live within do not experience.
 
Rose65 said:
People are ever hopeful, sadly happiness can be hard to find and keep.
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People should never marry with the expectation that the other person will make them happy . Happiness is an inside job.
Find someone whom you can be happy with.

I can’t relate to 3 or 4 marriages in one lifetime. It’s like spouse collecting.
 

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