My thought of the day

Wedding18

One would think that with the divorce rate being at or over 50%, I would have more friends who are divorced. 

When DD was born I met a bunch of women through gymboree and mom's groups.  I am still friends with them and they are all still married.  I am the only one who is divorced. 

Kkt1927

I have way more married friends then divorced friends. But I also got married really young and most of my friends my age are just getting married. First married/first to head down the divorce road...

DorisWE

Most of my friends are also married (some divorced and remarried) too.  I guess I usually don't put much thought into it, although there are times that I feel a little weird about it, but those are few and far between!

jdbmjm

I guess I'm lucky that only one of my friends is married, so there is not really any one to compare myself to. I think we are all friends because we aren't the marrying kind...

tsmomma42

I have exactly 1 divorced friend IRL. The rest are all happily married. I've wondered why that is too.

kjewell

I don't have any dirvorced friends.  I chalk it up ti my age. At 26 ( I got married at 23) most of my friends are just starting to get married.

I do know have a couple friends that are UNhappily married so I would assume that sooner or later they are going to get divorced.

southsam

kjewell:

I don't have any dirvorced friends.  I chalk it up ti my age. At 26 ( I got married at 23) most of my friends are just starting to get married.

I do know have a couple friends that are UNhappily married so I would assume that sooner or later they are going to get divorced.

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hainesherway

I was the last one married and the first one divorced in my circle of friends. 

MyOrdinaryLife

The divorce rate is not actually 50%, it is actually closer to 33%.  The statistic is skewed because it simply counts the number of marriages in a year vs the number of divorces, less people are actually getting married these days and some longer term marriages end in divorce, or the fact that many of the marriages that end are second marriages, men who are divorced once are far more likely to be divorced again, so the marriage statistics aren't as bad as they look.  That being said, I am almost thirty four, I am one of three in my group of friends that have gotten divorced, one of which (a male who got divorced at 24) is remarried.

PrincessFiona9

I am 24. I have a couple of friends who are married (very unhappily but they're the "stick-it-out-for-the-kids" type) and one couple (hitting 30) who is happily married and the rest are single. I've never been married but I was engaged to DD's father and things didn't work out. SO and I will get married in a couple of years probably.

UDscoobychick

Of friends whose weddings I attended, they're all still married.  One I worry about, but the rest I think are good matches.

I have a local group of friends whose age ranges from 24 to probably late 50s, and of the 8 of us, the three men have all been divorced twice (well, one is pending), two of the women have been divorced once, and three of the woman have never been married.  None are married, happily or otherwise lol.