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Ryan Bridge: What's the secret to a good marriage? · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: What are your chances of getting divorced? The new stats
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  Speaker 1: in Z numbers were interesting for a couple of reasons. One,
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  Speaker 1: fewer people are getting hitched. In twenty twenty five it
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  Speaker 1: was seven point six marriages per one thousand people. That's
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  Speaker 1: half the rate it was in the year two thousand.
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  Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy one, which was peak marriage, it was
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  Speaker 1: forty five people per one thousand. So basically, fewer of
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  Speaker 1: us are bothering to get married. I got friends who
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  Speaker 1: are single, don't mind being single. That was far less
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  Speaker 1: acceptable in nineteen seventy one. Number Two, we're getting married
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  Speaker 1: later in life. We put a ring on it at
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  Speaker 1: around twenty in nineteen seventy one. We now wait until
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  Speaker 1: we're in our thirties, and I reckon this is part
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  Speaker 1: of a bigger trend. People still live at home with
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  Speaker 1: their parents when they're twenty five. This is common. They
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  Speaker 1: go to UNI, they don't get proper jobs until sometimes
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  Speaker 1: they're in their late twenties or even early thirties. We're
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  Speaker 1: living longer at the other end of life, and it
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  Speaker 1: feels like we're kind of stretching out childhood a bit
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  Speaker 1: at the beginning as well. Get a dog live at home,
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  Speaker 1: complain about house prices, marry later. Number three divorce the
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  Speaker 1: most interesting. If you're in a marriage and you're wondering
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  Speaker 1: whether you might get a divorce, then I reckon you
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  Speaker 1: probably will. Otherwise, why would you be thinking about or
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  Speaker 1: worrying about it, you know what I mean? The numbers
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  Speaker 1: tell us how long you're likely to be married for
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  Speaker 1: how long you're married before you call it quits. Five
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  Speaker 1: percent quit within five years, fifteen percent within ten years,
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  Speaker 1: and a third within twenty five years. Here's the good news,
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  Speaker 1: the news you should hope for. Sixty percent of couples
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  Speaker 1: remain married for the rest of their lives, happily ever after,
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  Speaker 1: Just like in the movies. A wise man once told me,
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  Speaker 1: the best way to stay married is to just not
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  Speaker 1: get divorced. For more from Early edition with Ryan Bridge.
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