You come from a culture where early intervention and solid learning of survival skills are vital, you work for law enforcement, and you are intelligent enough to operate a keyboard, and you ask THIS? Who's kidding who.....
In the United States, researchers estimate that 40%–50% of all first marriages will end in divorce or permanent separation. The risk of divorce is even higher for second marriages, about 60%. Utah’s divorce rate is just slightly above the national average.
Divorce has always been present in American society. Although divorce has always been a concern, it has become more common in the last 50 years. The highest divorce rates ever recorded were in the 1970s and early 1980s. Since then the divorce rate actually has decreased a little, but it still remains at a historically high rate.
I wouldn't be considering marriage with someone I couldn't talk to, and I wouldn't be at all keen on introducing a third party "authority on relationships" into our relationship unless we ran into something we couldn't sort out between us.
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