Justin Lavner and Thomas Bradbury of UCLA recently published an article that explored why
some happy marriages end in divorce.
Not exact matches
If a
marriage is effectively over — and let's face it,
happy marriages don't
end in divorce — and one of the spouses falls for someone else, it may not be the smartest idea but should he or she be shamed and judged?
Keep the «
Happy»
in Your
Marriage Almost half of all
marriages in the United States
end in divorce.
They understand that
divorce is not the
happy ending people envision when they first get married, but with the help of the right family lawyer, the
marriage can be resolved and both parties can move towards building a brighter future
in their new normal as soon as possible.
As we head into the season of wedding bells and
happy couples tying the knot, nobody likes to think about the grim statistic that 50 % of today's
marriages will
end in divorce.
Research by Dr. John Gottman — who spent sixteen years studying what makes
marriages thrive and fail
in his «love lab» at the University of Washington and who famously possesses the ability to predict with over 90 % accuracy whether a couple will
end up
divorcing based on watching them interact for just 15 minutes — found that
happy couples don't necessarily have less conflict
in their
marriage than unhappy ones.
Lani Baron, Attorney Mediator, is highly experienced
in helping couples examine all of their options during the
divorce process, creating a highly - individualized approach that allows couples to split on their own terms, and ultimately
end their
marriage in a way that leaves them both
happy with their new circumstances.
Since reportedly 40 - 50 percent of American
marriages end in divorce, it's important that you do all that you can to save your
marriage and keep it
happy and healthy.
Almost everyone wants a
happy marriage and wants it to last a lifetime.1 But most also know the scary U.S. statistics: nearly 50 percent of first
marriages and more than 60 percent of second
marriages end in divorce.
In my family, there were very few happy endings: Most love stories, including my parents» marriage, ended in divorc
In my family, there were very few
happy endings: Most love stories, including my parents»
marriage,
ended in divorc
in divorce.
But, the reasons are irrelevant —
happy, healthy
marriages generally don't
end in divorce.
If you're scared to get married because you're afraid it might
end up
in divorce, listen to this doctor's theory on
happy marriages.
Ira visits marital researcher John Gottman, who's part of a generation of researchers that have revolutionized the way we see
marriage by observing successful and unsuccessful
marriages and trying to figure out what the successful
happy ones are doing that the ones who
end up
in divorce are not.
The tips below reflect a blending of the two that I have seen make all the difference
in a couple staying
happy long - term
in their
marriage versus
ending up shipwrecked on the shores of
divorce and misery.