Divorce. Thanks Obama

[Surfer]

I laugh when I see it from a macro scale. We have the same number of adults in this country looking to partner up, maybe 250mil. Half of them get divorced looking for more than they had in their current relationship...but the overall population pool is the same. If they find happiness it's probably with someone that some other person walked out on, and that probably happened after they went through some failed rebounds, grew older and wiser themselves, lowered their expectations, and were ready to settle and let go of their entitlement. And many more never find that happiness as is reflected in how the divorce rate skyrockets on M2 and M3. But either way it's the same group of people breaking up and forming new relationships, and each time it leaves a broken family with compounding problems and scars, and sets the precedent for walking away when things get difficult which essentially all marriages will.

Zeus,

You make a very interesting point - I have not thought about this 'population pool' theory before. Of course it assumes that everyone has already been married. But in fairness, given a certain demographic, you can certainly assume (for the sake of the theory at least) that most, apart from those that are unmarried by choice or the choice of others, have been married. So let's assume that is correct - and I don't dispute it (broadly) to a degree.

This leaves you with 2 types of divorcees it seems, namely;

1) Those that learn from their mistakes.
2) Those that don't.

Personally, I would rather learn from my mistakes, if possible by correcting them in this M, but definitely, if that is not deemed acceptable to my WW, given time (this cuts both ways of course) I certainly won't be making the same mistakes twice.

Surfer.