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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sheesh, OP. Do you also go to a young couple's wedding and say, "well, statistics say that marriages at your age have a high chance of failure, so good luck with that!" Or tell a cancer patient that their odds of surviving five years are crappy? People aren't statistics and don't like being treated as such.[/quote]

[b]Happily married couples talk about divorce rates all the time without impacting the stability of the marriage.

This wasn't a wedding. This was a lunchroom conversation. I don't see anything wrong with the topic or context. If the other person took it sensitively that is mainly due to her and not the topic.[/b] [/quote]

[b]It is not a socially appropriate subject.[/b] Are you on the spectrum? [/quote]

Why would this even come up at work? Do you go around telling your straight co-workers that their marriages only have a 50% chance of surviving?

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Yeah, when there's one single person present who fits into a certain category, and then you start spouting statistics (factual or not) about their subgroub, it just doesn't come off well. This is especially true when the topic in question is a very recently hard won civil right, and one that many people are trying to undo at that. Whether or not you intended the discussion as a comment about her marriage, it certainly comes off that way.

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