This is a very depressing thread...
I'm at an age where people around me have been together for 15+ years.
Reminds me of a line Louis CK said once.
Something like "my wife and I have been together for 20 years...so we're almost done"
He got divorced not long after that.
I guess things just run their course after a while.
When you're in your 40s and you have couples that have been together since HS or college ....it feels inevitable.
I sometimes wonder how people deal with marriage by this time. You've been together forever. The conversations are the same. The kids are graduating HS and going to college. They've been your focus for 15+ years. Now it's an empty house. You and your spouse. And you have to figure out how to be a couple again and focus on each other.
And the shyt seems to break down more often than not.
The sucky thing is that being single in your 40s or 50s is strange. The freedom has to be great. But the dating scene must be horrific.
what has been the cause typicallyIt's crazy the older I get it seems like every other week close friends of mine, family members, or past friends are getting divorced.
I keep getting calls to be the shoulder to lean on and I try and listen but the stories I hear are so depressing.
Anyone else seeing this or is it society as a whole?
It doesn't have to be depressing if you can come to terms that nothing is permanent in this world including relationships and sometimes people grow apart.This is a very depressing thread...
If Divorce was illegal you would see more logical coupling happening lol
I'm not married but I will say understand what you are saying. Capitalism is basically deciding what's in people's best interest versus thinking it for themselves. Capitalism as in every viral podcast spreading the message while social media platforms are generating ad revenue. Industries in the divorce business making it easier to go through the process so lawyers can get paid. Or states where the process is slower and the people getting divorced are accumulating court costs, lawyer fees, etc.Thats because Marriage outdated and not compatible with today's societal rules
what has been the cause typically
Either that or women losing custody of their kids like it was back in the day...
That’s because people are marrying for love and not to combine dynasties and forging alliances between families.
The main reason divorce is so rapid and marriages are terrible is because the average person isn’t marriage material.
No one wants to truly vet each other.
You shouldn't have even been in a relationship let alone got married.