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Jeremy Sutton: Family Lawyer on the divorce rate outpacing the marriage rate · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Marriage rates are now officially lower than divorce rates. According
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  Speaker 1: to stats in z three percent fewer couples decided to
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  Speaker 1: tie the not last year than in twenty twenty four
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  Speaker 1: to five percent more got divorced.
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  Speaker 2: Jeremy Sutton's a family lawyer.
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  Speaker 1: Jeremy, good morning, Good morning, Ryan, How are you very well?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you?
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  Speaker 1: Nice to have you on the show. Who's getting divorced?
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  Speaker 1: Like couples that have been together for twenty years or
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  Speaker 1: couples that have been together for five years.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of a mixture, Ryan, But there's one category,
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  Speaker 3: these silver spooners. So they're you know, over fifty and
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  Speaker 3: the kids have left home, and they're just they don't
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  Speaker 3: have the same interest. One one wants to travel, peraths
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  Speaker 3: and one wants to work. And then the younger ones
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  Speaker 3: sometimes are only together for a few years and they divorce.
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  Speaker 3: And those people, you know, will often have two or
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  Speaker 3: three relationships in their life.
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  Speaker 1: Jeremy, does it matter how long you are together? If
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  Speaker 1: you are together for a longer period of time, I
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  Speaker 1: guess there's more chance, a greater chance that you will
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  Speaker 1: change as individual people, and therefore you might be more
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  Speaker 1: likely to get a divorce.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, if you're together for a longer period of time,
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  Speaker 3: you'll you will change over time, and it's perhaps more
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  Speaker 3: likely that you're going to times get a bit sick
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  Speaker 3: of each other in terms of what you've been doing.
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  Speaker 3: But the average length of a relationship, Ryan, is about
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  Speaker 3: fourteen years.
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  Speaker 2: You're a family lawyer.
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  Speaker 1: You see a lot of this stuff in the courts.
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  Speaker 1: What's your advice to people? If people don't want to
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  Speaker 1: get divorced, they want to stay married that like to
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  Speaker 1: give it a good go. What do you tell people?
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  Speaker 3: I tell people that it's never perfect. There are always
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  Speaker 3: going to be issues within a marriage, and get help
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  Speaker 3: either through your net friends, met.
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  Speaker 2: Work, or.
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  Speaker 3: Buy some some sort of counseling and professional help to
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  Speaker 3: you know, to to work through things with a psychologist.
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  Speaker 3: That there are always going to be issues within a marriage,
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  Speaker 3: aren't there, Ryan, But you just need to work through
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  Speaker 3: these things. Sometimes it might be to do with finances.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes it could be with you know, the amount of
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  Speaker 3: time you're spending together. But just have a go and
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  Speaker 3: be patient.
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  Speaker 2: Jeremy Sutton, family lawyer.
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  Speaker 1: Nice to have you on talking about those new stats
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  Speaker 1: in Z numbers.
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