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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree that it depends entirely on the people involved and their ability to grow, evolve and compromise with each other.  Some of the happiest and strongest marriages I know are from people who married their college sweethearts (HS more iffy).  The most problematic marriages I have seen are from women who decided in their mid to late 20s and early 30s to "settle" and marryguys who had lots of red flags just because their biological clocks were ticking and they wanted to have a child.   Better to freeze ones eggs than to have to co-parent with a dysfunctional ExH. [b]  I know I will get flamed for this, but based upon all of my friends, I will say that I think the biggest predictor for marital longevity is whether your own parents stayed married (and were relatively happy together over the long run). [/b] [/quote]

I'm fairly certain that data supports this[/quote]

Please cite the data.[/quote]

there is more, but the abstract for this one is pretty blunt and direct

"Although it is well established that the children of divorce are disproportionately likely to end their own marriages, relatively little is known about their marriage formation behavior. This paper uses data from the National Survey of Families and Households to examine the effects of parental family structure on spouse selection and marriage duration. People from divorced families often marry other children of divorce. This phenomenon, which I call family structure homogamy, persists across a variety of sociodemographic boundaries. In addition, I replicate earlier research by demonstrating that marriages between two children of divorce are especially likely to fail. These findings shed new light on the intergenerational transmission of divorce by showing that people from divorced families often marry under conditions that bode poorly for marital stability."

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2003-02361-002[/quote]

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