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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even if they do marry, what are the odds of them staying in one for more than 10 years?[/quote]

Yup. Most marriages around me started between 27-37 and ended within 1-10 years. [/quote]

I'm the PP with three girls who got married in their mid-20s. One is already well past the 10 year mark; the second is getting close; and the third has maybe 4 years behind her.  And they're all fine, with zero indication of any serious relationship problems whatsoever.  Why is everybody so cynical and dysfunctional?[/quote]

This is exactly what everyone would have said about my grandmother's marriage. My grandfather died at 86. My grandmother, then 85 told us the truth: they had not slept together over 30 years. She had enough of him, but did not tell anyone because she never planned on leaving. They slept in the same bedroom.

My mother who is 64 years old. She stayed with my dad until he passed this year. My dad was pretty much one of the PP's sons: introverted day dreamer with ADHD. He was well respected(highly educated) and well liked by family and friends. But he was an awful husband, and my mother never told a soul. Some of us children saw it decades ago. Some of us realized it in the last years of my father's life. My parents never divorced: they stopped sleeping with each other 8 years before my father passed away. It was an unhappy marriage, but they did not want to split. And they hid it well.

I hope your children are as happy in marriage as you think they are. The truth is that many people feign happiness because they don't want to divorce.[/quote]

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