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[quote=Anonymous]I don’t believe friends divorcing will make a happily married couple suddenly decide to divorce.  I do think someone that is unhappily married might start thinking more about divorce after seeing friends make it out on the other side of it okay.  To quote one of the articles “Their journey gave me the strength I needed and the information and the knowledge that I needed to make it feasible for me.” What I don’t like about the articles is you could turn the question around and ask “is staying in an unhappy marriage contagious”. Are you more likely to stay in an a unhappy in marriage if you feel that is the socially acceptable thing to do so?

Asking if divorce is contagious implies you can get someone infected that wasn’t sick before by standing next to them and IMO reinforcing the stigma of divorce.  Whether unhappy and now divorced or unhappy and still married, I do think we don’t necessarily see enough examples of the behind the scenes work it takes to be happy while in a committed relationship.  For many reasons people will be private about the struggles and work - not to be judged, not to have it turn into gossip, not to have the behavior become the person even after they have put in the work to change, not telling the story that isn’t yours to tell about your significant other etc.  So you see the journey and info for divorce and you can see how people cope with being unhappy and staying married but don’t necessarily see how peers that are happy make it work.[/quote]

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