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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel like I see so many posts from people who are considering divorce or divorced and say they have no expectations of remarriage and neither should anyone else considering divorce. Is that because their experience was so terrible that they are skeptical a new experience will be different? Or because marriage for them was always just about kids and pointless if kids aren't involved? Or because they don't want to be on the hook for taking care of a new older person? Or because they dont think anyone worthwhile will want to marry a 40/50/60/70 something man/ woman etc?  or other. [/quote]

The reason is they are contemplating, starting the process, in the process or just a year or two out from divorce.

The reality is 95% of those people who proclaim this will in fact remarry. They realize that once there is more distance from the divorce that they want to be married. [/quote]

No, remarriage rates are not close to 95%. It’s less than 1/3 for women in their mid-40s/50s.

https://www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resources/data/family-profiles/westrick-payne-remarriage-rate-2021-fp-23-19.html#:~:text=The%20highest%20remarriage%20rates%20were,females%20per%201%2C000%20previously%20married).
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What? No - that is saying women 45-54 had a remarriage rate of 30.3 in 2021.  This means that out of 1000 of single, previously married women aged 45-54, 30.3 got remarried in 2021.  It's not a cumulative percentage.

For example, here is a cumulative percentage using data from 2013: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2014/11/14/chapter-2-the-demographics-of-remarriage/.  62% of women (and 64% of men) aged 45-54 who were ever married had remarried.  This jumps to 71% of men in the 55-64 category (reflecting that it takes time to find a new partner, even if you want to remarry), with women at 63%. For 65 and older, the percentage dips again for both men and women (more widows/widowers entering the pool without same level of remarriage) but with a big gap with more men remarrying. The data isn't broken down to say (for example) what percentage of women who divorced between the ages of 35-44 had remarried by the time they were 55-64.

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Meh. That’s still far from 95% and the percentage remarrying is falling.

The data show that single older women are content being single and much less into dating, let alone marrying, than men. I can come up with a lot of theories why …

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/08/20/a-profile-of-single-americans/
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