higher rates of divorce is very sad but it's probably less sad than those marriages continuing
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It's kind of like a person being in hospice with a painful disease. Kind of a relief when they are freed of it.
But lets say its a disease caused by [insert cultural and societal elements here]. The ideal scenario is for that never to create the illness in the first place.
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Existence of kids in the subject marriage has to confound this binary analysis
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It's not good to have a high divorce rate. It means a combination of people trivially entering long term relationship contracts and also giving up on them as soon as they feel like it. It's a sign of little foresight and even less endurance for dealing with problems.
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You can't know that. Without the additional stress,those marriages may have been quite happy. I mean... let's say I have a pulley with rolls and rope intended for lifting and moving up to 50kg with ease. I try to lift 500kg with it and it breaks.
Beats it being intact&weak? ;-)
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I know of a handful of people that are married because it's more financially untenable to get divorced. Now THATS sad.
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There is a non-zero number of those marriages that could be "saved" with therapy and willingness to change, but those may be on the margin
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