Do interracial and marriages of color last longer?

[Anonymous]

Happy Loving Day to all the members of interracial marriages in this thread, and to the handful of randoms trying to prove we're not going to make it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Happy Loving Day to all the members of interracial marriages in this thread, and to the handful of randoms trying to prove we're not going to make it!

My DH just wished me a happy Loving Day with a kiss.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Happy Loving Day to all the members of interracial marriages in this thread, and to the handful of randoms trying to prove we're not going to make it!

No one is trying to prove anything. Most are noting what they have seen and observed. This is not exactly a scientific survey. But glad things are all good for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Happy Loving Day to all the members of interracial marriages in this thread, and to the handful of randoms trying to prove we're not going to make it!

No one is trying to prove anything. Most are noting what they have seen and observed. This is not exactly a scientific survey. But glad things are all good for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am in an interracial marriage (wife is Indian, and I'm a white guy), and as our DC have gotten older more parents have gotten divorced. We were recently talking and noticed how it has been almost all white couples who have gotten separated or divorced and almost none of the couples of color or interracial couples. We've been at a pretty diverse private school since kindergarten where it's about 50/50 so it's not necessarily because of a lack of representation. Any thoughts?

It's not so much about race as it is about cross-cultural. I think that in UMC and higher classes, people who marry cross-culture, often do a bit more work beforehand in talking about cultural differences and trying to work out if they agree about many values (children, money, family, etc). A lot more of the relationships that are likely to fail, fail before the wedding takes place, rather than afterwards. And that rules out a large percentage of marriages. It has been shown that the largest single reason for divorce is a difference about money, saving, and spending. In cross-cultural relationships, a lot more discuss this, often with prenuptials before they get married. If they can't agree on money issues, they often don't get married.

I've noticed that American-born minorities have divorce rates closer to non-mixed marriages, so it is more likely about whether the minorities are American-born or not as to whether they are more likely to discuss money or children (another major cause of divorce) before getting married.

[Anonymous]

Happy Loving day!

I've noticed that marriages between people who want to get married even though family or friends don't want them to seem to survive longer. They have to go through more up front to get married in the first place.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

WF married 20 Yes to BM before he passed. It’s not easy to be in an interracial relationship so that could lead to stronger bonding. But i’m dating men who were in interracial relationships that ended up divorced so maybe not.

[Anonymous]

Um. No. Were are your stats to back this up?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Happy Loving Day to all the members of interracial marriages in this thread, and to the handful of randoms trying to prove we're not going to make it!

Maybe the members of interracial marriages are the randoms. Who cares about any of this anyway?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I call race troll.

+1 why didn’t op me took Hispanic, black, or Asian couples?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Years ago I read that divorce rates for most interracial marriages were even higher than the rates for same race marriages.

The only exception being marriage between black women and white men, which not only had the lowest divorce rate among interracial marraiges, but also lower divorce rates than same race marraiges.

+2, read the same thing. I often wondered the reasoning behind the data.

[Anonymous]

No. I would suspect they gave more challenges.

[Anonymous]

What is a “marriage of color”?

[Anonymous]

The ones that I’ve seen fail were because the spouse had a chip on their shoulder regarding race. It was magnified when it came time to raise the kids.