Relationships
This One Thing Is The Biggest Predictor Of Divorce
Marriage is scary. When approaching it, you’re (hopefully) looking at spending the rest of your life with someone. Through all the changes and stages of adulthood, this is the one person you’re determined to brave it all with.
By Jessica Marie Baumgartner4 min read
Divorce has become so common that it’s natural to wonder: What is the main cause of failed marriages? Some people cynically sit back and scoff to themselves about how marriages are made to fail. Or how marriage was originally slavery, so of course “free” women wouldn’t want to stay in them. But that mentality is a front. It usually comes from people who fear commitment or who never got over their own parents’ divorce.