Is Your Relationship Built on a House of Cards
September 20, 2022
How do you know your relationship is built on a house of cards or a solid foundation? In this episode, David dives into the statistics and shares one of the major contributing factors to why modern relationships are built on a house of cards.
How do you know if your relationship is built on a house of cards or has a solid foundation?
Looking at the statistics
Looking at the statistics
- First Marriages: 42-45 percent will terminate with a divorce as the result.
- Second Marriages: 60 percent will terminate with a divorce as the result.
- Third Marriages: 73 percent will terminate with a divorce as the result.
Another way of viewing these statistics is:
- 22 percent of women have been divorced at least once.
- 21 percent of men have been divorced at least once.
- 11 percent of women are divorced at the present time.
- 9 percent of men are divorced at the present time.
The age breakdown of those obtaining a divorce looks thus:
- Under 20: Women 27.6%, Men 11.7%
- 20 – 24: Women 36.6%, Men 38.8%
- 25 – 29: Women 16.4%, Men 22.3%
- 30 – 34: Women 8.5%, Men 11.6%
- 35 – 39: Women 5.1%, Men 6.5%
*Statistics from Canterbury Law Group for 2020
One of the reasons for such a high divorce rate has to do with choosing a partner by starting with our wants and desires vs looking at long-term needs (with the addition of wants & desires - which is not mentioned in the podcast)
Our society over the last 30+ years had propagated the physical wants and desires over the reality of our long-term needs within relationships causing a vast majority of couples to be together based on wants and desires without the thought of long-term needs.