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Gray Divorce: Why Divorce Over 50 On The Rise (And How to Avoid It) · Mindful Success Path

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There is a new relationship trend making headlines in the United States, and that is gray divorce.
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Couples are getting divorced after the age of 50 in record numbers, and if you're over the age of 65, divorce has.
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Tripled.
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Now, what's really interesting is on this channel we do get people who have been divorced and on my husband's channel where he helps people move to other countries.
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We actually work with a lot of, uh, people who are retirees or about to retire.
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And we also noticed, wow, a lot of these guys are getting divorced.
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So I was like, you know what?
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We gotta go do a reaction video to talk about what is going on and what causes some of these issues in what that lead to divorce after the age of 50.
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I have an article that just came out recently'cause this is.
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Blowing up the internet in the United States.
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And then I will also give some of my thoughts based on coaching women for 15 years in different areas of their lives, on some of the things we could do to maybe.
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Avoid some of the issues that lead to great divorce because I was going through the list and I was like, a lot of this stuff can be avoided.
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So that is what we are going to do.
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Gray divorce, the new phenomenon that is all over the news in the United States, and I was looking at some news from other countries.
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Now, other countries are starting to report on the gray divorce phenomenon going on in the United States.
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So let's, let's get into it.
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Let's see the reasons why divorce over the age of 50 is skyrocketing.
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Justin Keltner-1: The gray divorce phenomenon, this has been all over the internet in the last week.
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Justin Keltner-1: Oprah just did an interview about this.
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Justin Keltner-1: It's, there's a bunch of news articles coming out about this recently, so let's get into it.
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Justin Keltner-1: Why so many older couples are falling victim to the gray divorce phenomenon.
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Justin Keltner-1: And as I said.
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Justin Keltner-1: Uh, one of my husband's businesses is a relocation company.
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Justin Keltner-1: He helps people move to other countries.
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Justin Keltner-1: A lot of times it's people who are over the age of 50 who are looking to retire in other countries, and we have noticed a trend with a lot of them getting divorced.
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Justin Keltner-1: So we can just, I can see this happening, right?
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Justin Keltner-1: Just in my husband's business.
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Justin Keltner-1: So divorce lawyers are making a pretty penny, uh, now a day.
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Justin Keltner-1: Okay, so here are the key takeaways and we'll get into it and then I'll share my commentary.
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Justin Keltner-1: Great divorce happens when couples over 50 decide to divorce after long marriages.
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Justin Keltner-1: Common reasons for great divorce include empty nest syndrome.
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Justin Keltner-1: I will get to that.
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Justin Keltner-1: And financial disagreements.
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Justin Keltner-1: I will get to that too, because I spent eight years as a financial educator and a lot of this financial stuff can be avoided.
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Justin Keltner-1: So that's what we're going to be talking about.
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Justin Keltner-1: Great divorce can be financially hard, uh, especially on women who may face a bigger drop in living standards.
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Justin Keltner-1: At which point why do it?
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Justin Keltner-1: Right.
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Justin Keltner-1: I a lot in the Oprah interview, they were talking to a researcher and an attorney.
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Justin Keltner-1: And part of what they were talking about in the Oprah interview is women being like, well, I've got another 15 years on me, so why don't I just go get divorced and live my best life?
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Justin Keltner-1: Because you're not gonna live your best life.
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Justin Keltner-1: Right.
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Justin Keltner-1: Because you are starting over.
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Justin Keltner-1: Uh, essentially.
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Justin Keltner-1: So that's why I'm like, why?
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Justin Keltner-1: And also when I read a lot of the reasons, like I said, a lot of these things can be avoided, uh, or talked through.
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Justin Keltner-1: Some cannot.
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Justin Keltner-1: Right.
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Justin Keltner-1: But a lot of them can.
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Justin Keltner-1: So that's what I wanted to, uh.
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Justin Keltner-1: Get to today.
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Justin Keltner-1: So Bill and Melinda Gates, Hugh Jackman, and Deborah Lee Jackman, r Ray Pearlman and Danny DeVito.
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Justin Keltner-1: What do any of these couples have in common?
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Justin Keltner-1: They're all divorced after decades.
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Justin Keltner-1: Long marriages.
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Justin Keltner-1: See, there's this growing trend of older couples calling it quits, and the research backs this up too.
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Justin Keltner-1: A 2021 report by the US Census Bureau.
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Justin Keltner-1: So again, this is particular to the United States, found that more and more couples over the age of 65 are divorcing.
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Justin Keltner-1: After being married four years, if not decades, why are older couples after spending nearly half their lives together, ending their relationship?
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Justin Keltner-1: This phenomenon, dubbed grade divorce is one explanation for the growing number of single person US households.
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Justin Keltner-1: Okay.
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Justin Keltner-1: Um, so the reasons behind it are complex and varied.
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Justin Keltner-1: Uh, statistics suggest that baby movers are more prone to divorce.
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Justin Keltner-1: Uh, and there's actually interesting studies done on this by Adam Lane Smith, uh, baby boomers, a lot of them did not grow up with healthy attachment styles at all in the household.
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Justin Keltner-1: He's talked about this on his channels, so I.
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Justin Keltner-1: I would not be surprised if that is a contributing factor because the United States is dealing with like a hundred years of attachment trauma in families, and we're seeing, you know, society fall apart.
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Justin Keltner-1: As a result, uh, factors like empty nest syndrome, shifting priorities, financial problem problems, reduced stigma around divorcing, can all play a role, uh, keep reading to learn, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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Justin Keltner-1: Okay.
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Justin Keltner-1: What is great divorce?
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Justin Keltner-1: It's often defined as divorce that occurs as through the age of 50, following a long-term marriage.
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Justin Keltner-1: These individuals have often been married for many years or decades, but ultimately decide to split.
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Justin Keltner-1: How common is it?
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Justin Keltner-1: 1 20 22 study looking at historical trends in gray divorce found that divorce rates among middle aged and older adults have increased since 1970.
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Justin Keltner-1: Gray divorce was relatively uncommon in 1970 and grew only modestly until 1990.
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Justin Keltner-1: In 1990 8.7% of marriages among people over the age of 50 ended in divorce.
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Justin Keltner-1: By 2019, that number had grown to 36.
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Justin Keltner-1: Percent.
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Justin Keltner-1: The researchers also noted that people over the age of 65 are the only age group with growing divorce rates.
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Justin Keltner-1: In contrast, the divorce rate among young adults in their twenties and thirties has actually declined in recent years.
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Justin Keltner-1: Yay.
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Justin Keltner-1: I think people are.
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Justin Keltner-1: Going to therapy and coaching, um, and trying to work through their stuff because they certainly did not see older generations doing that, which obviously is part of what we're seeing.
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Justin Keltner-1: So generational influences.
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Justin Keltner-1: Uh, one explanation for growing div great divorce rates is that baby boomers adults born between 1946 and 1964, make up the bulk of the age group over 50.
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Justin Keltner-1: And this generation is more likely to divorce than older and younger generations.
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Justin Keltner-1: Boomers were more likely to divorce during their younger adult years, and their divorce rates have also continued.
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Justin Keltner-1: To rise, um, as they age.
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Justin Keltner-1: I would be curious to see, um, the difference between, um, like a multi-generational Americans versus first generation Americans, like my parents.
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Justin Keltner-1: I would be interested to see that.
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Justin Keltner-1: I don't know if it would make a difference, but I would be interested to see kind of how that plays out between immigrant households, uh, versus.
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Justin Keltner-1: Non-immigrant households in the United States.
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Justin Keltner-1: Okay.
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Justin Keltner-1: Other factors that increase the risk for great divorce include the number of previous marriages.
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Justin Keltner-1: We know that and the number of years a person has been married, remarriages are less likely to last.
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Justin Keltner-1: Again, we also know that blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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Justin Keltner-1: Um.
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Justin Keltner-1: While the length of marriage is a risk factor for grade divorce, many couples who split after the age of 50 have been in marriages lasting decades.
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Justin Keltner-1: According to statistics by the Pew Research Center, 34% of grade divorces are between couples married for at least 30 years, and 12% are between couples married 40 years or longer.
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Justin Keltner-1: So here's some of the contributing factors, and again, some of these can be avoided.
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Justin Keltner-1: Okay.
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Justin Keltner-1: That's why I wanna talk about this.
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Justin Keltner-1: And this is based on my 15 years of experience coaching women in different areas of their lives.
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Justin Keltner-1: So empty nest syndrome, that's when kids leave the home.
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Justin Keltner-1: If you saw the interview that my husband, where I interviewed my husband, uh, recently, he brought up this very interesting point that a lot of you liked.
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Justin Keltner-1: Uh, and it's very practical, which is the fact that couples need to find something other than their kids to keep the marriage together, uh, because we know.
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Justin Keltner-1: We now know this, that now more divorces are happening because of empty nest syndrome.
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Justin Keltner-1: When you've made your entire life, your kids, and now the kids are not in the home anymore, you have nothing in common'cause the kids are not there.
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Justin Keltner-1: So one thing that's interesting is couples who run businesses together, you don't have to run a business together, but at least have hobbies, have projects.
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Justin Keltner-1: Like my, my parents have been married for 40 some odd years, right?
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Justin Keltner-1: They're both, uh, my none of us are in the house anymore.
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Justin Keltner-1: None of the kids.
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Justin Keltner-1: They exercise, they have hobbies, they have all kinds of projects to keep them busy and keep them, uh, together.
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Justin Keltner-1: My parents were also religious, so obviously that plays a, a part in it as well.
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Justin Keltner-1: 'cause they're like, we ain't getting divorced.
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Justin Keltner-1: Okay.
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Justin Keltner-1: Because that's their, their value system.
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Justin Keltner-1: Um, and I would also venture to say that in the United States we have less and less religion, which I'm sure is probably a contributing factor, uh, to this as well.
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Justin Keltner-1: I don't know if that's gonna come up.
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Justin Keltner-1: In this article, I do not think it does.
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Justin Keltner-1: Um, so basically, you know, if you, if you've made your whole marriage about your kids and then your kids are not there anymore.
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Justin Keltner-1: Yeah, you're gonna be at each other's throats.
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Justin Keltner-1: Now, one of the things that you can do is you can find things other than the kids.
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Justin Keltner-1: Maybe it's running businesses together.
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Justin Keltner-1: Uh, couples who run businesses together actually only have a 10% divorce rate.
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Justin Keltner-1: They have some of the lowest divorce rates, uh, of any group, uh, of people because there's something bigger keeping you guys together, uh, that needs, that needs to run.
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Justin Keltner-1: Right?
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Justin Keltner-1: And you learn.
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Justin Keltner-1: Um, you learn how not to be immature because businesses need to run regardless of how you feel, right?
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Justin Keltner-1: So that's maybe a contributing factor, uh, as to.
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Justin Keltner-1: Why, and as I was talking about my last reaction, video, American Society is very immature right now.
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Justin Keltner-1: Now, if you have a business, it's going to mature you.
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Justin Keltner-1: Uh, it has to, or your business is not going to survive.
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Justin Keltner-1: It's not going to make money, like it's not going to be successful.
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Justin Keltner-1: So have some sort of other projects, uh, other than your kids or some of the things that you can do right, is let's say your kids are out and you're realizing you don't know each other again, go date.
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Justin Keltner-1: Each other again, pretend you're like together for the first time again because you basically have a, you have like a new life that you are now building financial issues.
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Justin Keltner-1: Arguments over money can become more pronounced as couples near retirement age, it becomes harder to find common ground and maintain the peace.
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Justin Keltner-1: So here's the thing about money.
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Justin Keltner-1: And I say this because I spent from 2010 to like 17, 18 in the financial education space.
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Justin Keltner-1: You can go Google it.
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Justin Keltner-1: I have a Amazon bestselling book in the category.
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Justin Keltner-1: I, you know, I've been on the news for things like, uh, TransUnion.
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Justin Keltner-1: You can go Google it.
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Justin Keltner-1: I spent like seven, eight years in the financial education space.
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Justin Keltner-1: And one of the things that you really had to learn how to do, and one of the things you had to learn how to talk about, uh, as a couple.
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Justin Keltner-1: Is money, and I'm gonna tell you the truth.
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Justin Keltner-1: Most couples do not talk about money.
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Justin Keltner-1: They don't, most couples have no idea what is going on in the financial life, right?
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Justin Keltner-1: Most couples don't have financial goals together.
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Justin Keltner-1: Most couples don't even know how much debt they're in.
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Justin Keltner-1: So one of the things that couples need to start learning how to do, and they need to start doing this early on, and then you could avoid this issue after the age of 50, is you better learn how to have some conversations about money.
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Justin Keltner-1: And sometimes those conversations are hard.
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Justin Keltner-1: And again, this is where maturity needs to come into play.
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Justin Keltner-1: But yeah.
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Justin Keltner-1: You know how many people out here get married without?
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Justin Keltner-1: Under ever having talked about money?
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Justin Keltner-1: I think, um, one of the, the things that we should have in premarital counseling if it doesn't exist yet, is teaching couples how to talk about money.
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Justin Keltner-1: Because money is an area of life that could be very emotionally charged.
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Justin Keltner-1: There can be a lot of trauma around money, depending on how somebody grew up.
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Justin Keltner-1: Financial opposites tend to attract each other.
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Justin Keltner-1: That is something I saw a lot when I was in the financial education space and doing a lot of coaching, um, in that area.
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Justin Keltner-1: Of life.
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Justin Keltner-1: Uh, but you have to learn how to talk about money, right?
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Justin Keltner-1: So have those weekly money dates, don't wait until the age of 50, right?
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Justin Keltner-1: Have those weekly money dates.
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Justin Keltner-1: Uh, know what is going on.
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Justin Keltner-1: A lot of women out here will come to this channel and they'll be like, well, if a man is a provider, then he has control over me.
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Justin Keltner-1: Girl, you know where the accounts are.
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Justin Keltner-1: If you're with a healthy.
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Justin Keltner-1: Right.
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Justin Keltner-1: He's got your name on the accounts.
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Justin Keltner-1: If you are a healthy man, he's sitting down with you and telling you what is going on.
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Justin Keltner-1: If he's a, he is not leaving you in the dark.
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Justin Keltner-1: Right?
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Justin Keltner-1: And what happens with a lot of couples, so I'm not surprised to see this of all ages, is that they, they don't talk about money.
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Justin Keltner-1: They don't talk about it at all.
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Justin Keltner-1: They avoid the conversation like the plague actually.
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Justin Keltner-1: So one of the things couples need to learn how to do is learn how to talk about money and financial goals.
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Justin Keltner-1: And you know, my husband and I talk about money all the time, right?
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Justin Keltner-1: Because we wanna know like where we're going and what's going on and what are we doing and what are we building toward and all that kind of stuff, right?
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Justin Keltner-1: Infidelity, um.
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Justin Keltner-1: Are there things that can avoid infidelity?
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Justin Keltner-1: Maybe.
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Justin Keltner-1: But infidelity is one of those things that can happen to good people who did everything right.
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Justin Keltner-1: So.
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Justin Keltner-1: It can happen to anybody.
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Justin Keltner-1: It is what it is.
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Justin Keltner-1: Okay.
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Justin Keltner-1: Health problems, right?
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Justin Keltner-1: Health challenges like a serious chronic condition can major majorly strain a relationship.
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Justin Keltner-1: Some couples find that they're unable to handle health issues that emerge as they age.
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Justin Keltner-1: Notably, research indicates there's a gender disparity in how health problems affect couples.
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Justin Keltner-1: Studies reported a higher divorce risk that the wife develops.
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Justin Keltner-1: I've seen this, a chronic illness, whereas men who become disabled or Ill do not face the same level of risk again, emotional immaturity.
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Justin Keltner-1: That's what I'm going to put that down to because, um, and this may be a cultural thing'cause I'm Latina, you take good care of people, the whole family is gonna come in and take care of people.
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Justin Keltner-1: But that is something that is different in the United States because again, in the United States, it's all about your feelings and your personal happiness in the United States, here in Latin America, it's all about the family.
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Justin Keltner-1: So I have heard this right?
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Justin Keltner-1: I know it happens.
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Justin Keltner-1: It doesn't make sense to me as a Latina, like we were caregivers for all of my grandparents.
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Justin Keltner-1: You know, it's expected that, you know, if something hap when my hu my dad was sick of a few years ago, which is part of what led to my spiritual awakening that I've talked about on this channel.
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Justin Keltner-1: Like my mom was right, right by his side.
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Justin Keltner-1: I was there right by his side.
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Justin Keltner-1: Like it just doesn't compute for me.
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Justin Keltner-1: It doesn't make sense.
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Justin Keltner-1: Or with my grandparents, we were dealing with some very serious health problems and we were caregivers again, doesn't compute, doesn't make sense, but it could be a cultural thing.
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Justin Keltner-1: Um, growing apart, one of the most significant causes of great divorce is the changes people experience as they age.
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Justin Keltner-1: Growing apart is the most frequently cited reason for divorce at any age.
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Justin Keltner-1: For other adults, specifically, aging represents a big change, and people's priorities, interests and needs may shift as they grow older.
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Justin Keltner-1: I don't think it's growing apart.
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Justin Keltner-1: I think it's that people don't know how to maintain polarity in a relationship.
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Justin Keltner-1: People don't know how to keep the sexy.
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Justin Keltner-1: That's what growing apart means, right?
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Justin Keltner-1: Uh, changing expectations.
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Justin Keltner-1: Our expectation, because here's the thing, right?
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Justin Keltner-1: No one ever stays the same, ever.
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Justin Keltner-1: Right.
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Justin Keltner-1: Like I'm a different person from in like six months than I was six months ago.
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Justin Keltner-1: So again, this whole growing apart thing doesn't make any sense to me because this is a given that people are going to change.
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Justin Keltner-1: And again, I think a lot of this has to go back to those personal feelings.
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Justin Keltner-1: Right where everything in the United States is based off of people's personal feelings, and that's how they're all making decisions right now.
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Justin Keltner-1: And of course, you're gonna cite growing Apart as a problem because you have no idea how to talk about this.
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Justin Keltner-1: No one's got relationship skills, barely anybody.
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Justin Keltner-1: In the United States, uh, you made your whole life, your kids, as we already mentioned, that that's one of the the things, right?
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Justin Keltner-1: And again, it's like, oh, well we're growing apart.
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Justin Keltner-1: I wanna do this over here because this makes me happy.
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Justin Keltner-1: And if you're, you don't wanna do that, then I'm gonna divorce you.
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Justin Keltner-1: You know, like that's the mentality, which is we've done other videos, um, about that, right?
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Justin Keltner-1: So for older adults, positioning priorities, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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Justin Keltner-1: Again, it just doesn't make sense to me.
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Justin Keltner-1: 'cause isn't it a given that people are going to change?
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Justin Keltner-1: Wow.
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Justin Keltner-1: Like I'm totally different person than I was a year ago.
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Justin Keltner-1: Right?
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Justin Keltner-1: So again, that one doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
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Justin Keltner-1: I think that has to do with, um, emotional immaturity, which we know is an issue in the United States.
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Justin Keltner-1: Uh, personal happiness above everything else, which again, is a cultural thing in the United States.
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Justin Keltner-1: Um, and not knowing how to keep a relationship spicy.
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Justin Keltner-1: Okay, uh, change the expectations.
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Justin Keltner-1: Our expectations for what we consider a healthy, satisfying marriage have also changed over time.
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Justin Keltner-1: Today, couples are more likely to place a greater emphasis on how the relationship makes them feel, including whether it contributes to their overall happiness and fulfillment.
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Justin Keltner-1: What did I just say?
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Justin Keltner-1: The United States is emotionally immature.
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Justin Keltner-1: It is emotionally stunted.
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Justin Keltner-1: That is where we have gotten, um, as a society, uh, societal changes, society change.
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Justin Keltner-1: Societal changes have also influenced this relationship of people.
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Justin Keltner-1: Older adults were often raised with the expectation that they would marry, have children, and go old together.
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Justin Keltner-1: Today, many not recognize that there is no one side fits all path to a happy life again, personal happiness above everything else, and women have more freedom and financial independence than past generations.
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Justin Keltner-1: And again, I've said this before, this is a huge difference between the united.
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Justin Keltner-1: States and other countries and other cultures is that the United States has an overemphasis on personal feelings and personal happiness, and there's, and because of that, we have like a level of immaturity that is now running the show in the United States, which is leading to.
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Justin Keltner-1: All these freaking problems and all these trends that we see on social media, the majority of all divorces are initiated by women.
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Justin Keltner-1: We know that, and this is true for great divorce as well.
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Justin Keltner-1: Um, in the last 50 years, women have gained greater economic independence that have held and maintained their own careers.
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Justin Keltner-1: This has created more options for women on many fronts.
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Justin Keltner-1: I think there also is something going on here, which again, has to do with not understanding polarity and mass.
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Justin Keltner-1: Feeling energy and feminine energy and how they're supposed to work together, that there are women out here who are exhausted.
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Justin Keltner-1: So I think that has a lot to do with it as well.
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Justin Keltner-1: I will be doing other videos specifically about that because I do believe that is a contributing factor.
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Justin Keltner-1: But again, it could be managed.
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Justin Keltner-1: It could be mitigated.
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Justin Keltner-1: It could be avoided altogether.
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Justin Keltner-1: We can fix it if we need to fix it.
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Justin Keltner-1: Um, and then it goes into the financial considerations as a great divorce.
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Justin Keltner-1: 'cause you're dividing assets, the retirement savings, healthcare costs, like you're asking for a harder life because of your feelings, is what I'm getting from this.
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Justin Keltner-1: Um, a lot of the time.
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Justin Keltner-1: And again, it could just be a cultural thing because I am Latina and I totally understand that my cultural understanding of this may just be different.
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Justin Keltner-1: Um, but this is a huge difference, as I've said over and over and over again between the United States and the rest of the world.
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Justin Keltner-1: Is that Americans will find a way for their lives to be harder based on their own personal feelings and their own personal happiness.
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Justin Keltner-1: Then, then, then they make massive life altering decisions based on their feelings.
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Justin Keltner-1: And then.
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Justin Keltner-1: What happens is they find out a few years down the road that that was a mistake and they shouldn't have done it because now their life is harder.
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Justin Keltner-1: This is why I talk so much about emotional regulation on this channel and making decisions from an emotionally regulated state and learning how to become a healthy, mature person.
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Justin Keltner-1: Because when you become a healthy, mature person, you can avoid a lot of this.
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Justin Keltner-1: You can avoid so much of it, right?
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Justin Keltner-1: Because you'll have other interests besides your kids and other forms of connection.
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Justin Keltner-1: You would've been talking about money the whole time.
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Justin Keltner-1: Um, you would have the maturity that when things get difficult, you stay with it.
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Justin Keltner-1: And again, it could just be a cultural thing.
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Justin Keltner-1: Um, yeah.
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Justin Keltner-1: The only thing I've gotten from this is that it all comes down to feelings.
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Justin Keltner-1: Which is the, um, it's the general idea that I've gotten from the message that men and women are getting in the United States, which is then causing a lot of issues, uh, in the society.
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Justin Keltner-1: We've gone way overboard with the concept of personal happiness and feelings, and we need to learn how to be mature again, because in other countries it's more about values, uh, and it's not necessarily your feelings, but it's kind of.
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Justin Keltner-1: Your feelings.
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Justin Keltner-1: We need to be mature adults here.
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Justin Keltner-1: So that's what's going on with great divorce.
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Justin Keltner-1: That is what's going on.
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Justin Keltner-1: That is my opinion, again, based on coaching women and.
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Justin Keltner-1: For 15 years in different areas of their lives, having to change my own mindset about a lot of the stuff, uh, in my marriage, having literally coached people on finances for seven, eight years, I can tell you a lot about how much people don't talk about money and how that will absolutely, uh, lead to a divorce.
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Justin Keltner-1: Let me know if you want me to do more videos on money and how to talk about that and how to bring more in and all that.
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Justin Keltner-1: Let me know in the comments'cause I spent a lot of time in that space.
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Justin Keltner-1: Um, but yeah.
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Justin Keltner-1: We are, we're seeing divorce skyrocket over the age of 50.
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Justin Keltner-1: Good news being that divorce in other age groups.
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Justin Keltner-1: Uh, so under the age of 50 we're seeing less divorce rates there.
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Justin Keltner-1: I think that's a good thing.
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Justin Keltner-1: I think people are working on themselves.
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Justin Keltner-1: I think people are going to therapy.
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Justin Keltner-1: I think people are watching YouTube channels like this.
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Justin Keltner-1: I think people don't wanna make the mistakes that other generations have made.
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Justin Keltner-1: So that gives me a lot of hope and it should give you a lot of hope as well.
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So as you can see, this gray divorce phenomenon is quite interesting.
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I think it's interesting to see things that are going on, but main conclusion that I got from this based on my 15 years of experience, coaching women in different areas of their lives, traveling around multiple countries, living in multiple countries.
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There's just emotional immaturity running the show, and we know that because a lot of things in the United States have been based off of people's feelings for a long time, which is a very huge difference from what you see in other cultures and other countries that, uh, don't have such high, uh.
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Divorce rates and don't have as much of a collapse of the society that is going on.
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Good news being that younger generations in the United States are now getting divorced less.
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I think it's at a 50 year low from what I saw.
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This is fantastic because it means that people are starting to take.
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Responsibility for relationships.
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I mean, I see it here growing this YouTube channel.
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I see it on my, you know, husband's business, uh, and things like that with people starting to make different decisions for their lives and trying to heal a lot of the things that caused a lot of issues for previous generations.
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So that does give me a lot of hope.
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