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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those who don’t know any divorced couples I wonder where you live.
I am in the boat of knowing very few happily married couples.

We aren’t talking about rough patches.
When you are married to an addict or an abuser the entire marriage becomes a rough patch.  And often those character flaws don’t become fully apparent until after the arrival of children.

Oh I also blame youth sports.  No one spends nearly enough time cultivating their most important relationship in this area.

We as a culture want for too much — career success, financial success, super star children, material attainment, athletic success …something has to give.

The way lives in the UMC work around here marriage hardly stands a chance.  [/quote]

I'm in the DC area and 99% of our friends are still married (we're on year 26). All of us are UMC.  I don't know one person who has cheated.  These are friends from when our kids were in daycare, elementary, college friends, grad school friends, childhood friends.  None of us are particularly religious either.  I wonder about this a lot.[/quote]

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