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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had 4 friends divorce last year at age 33-34, no kids for any of them. [b]All got married around 27/28. I thought it was kind of odd since when you look at their stats, so to speak, they were all in low risk categories for divorce (didn't marry super young, educated, finances fine, etc)[/b]. Have a 5th friend with a terrible husband who I hope joins them, but think she'll double down and have a baby. [/quote]

These divorces don't surprise me one bit, I don't care what the stats say.  Look closely at their relationships.  They are almost all college sweethearts who dated for 5+ years, lived together, owned a dog, and all that crap before they often even got engaged.  Today, people who get married at 27/28 are NOT marrying people they met at 25/26.  27/28 is prime time for an inertia marriage to start.[/quote]

Actually, not really. They all dated about 2 years (2 of the couples less than that) before getting engaged, married by year 3. Only one of the 4 couples lived together, the others didn't because they had lived with the college sweethearts/randoms and were ready to settle down and in a "marriage or bust" mindset. I think maybe they were more bids to "have it all" by 30 along with looking for partners they could "get serious with" after dating around like mad in their early 20s. It seemed to fit, it made sense, it fit the timeline, and they were willing to overlook some red flags in order to check the box at an age appropriate time. [/quote]

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