The Divorce Rate is NOT 50%

We just read yet another article that stated the divorce rate in the USA was 50%. The divorce rate is not nearly as high as it is often reported in the popular media. We need to change that perception because it can be a discouraging message to those contemplating marriage. Most experts we have talked to believe the rate is closer to 40%. We ourselves have estimated the rate for first time marriages to be at somewhere between 35% and 40%. In other words, when you take out all of the couples married multiple times, your chances of staying together the first time you get married are really 60-65%.

For more details read The Divorce Rate Myth Debunked

Marriage Advice - Fact or Fiction?

The Internet and television are very valuable resources for many of your unanswered questions about life, love, relationships, and marriage. There is much to learn that is available on the Internet and TV. But all that is out there is not the truth, it is not accurate, and it can be misleading. And it can be hurtful!

So, here is what we ask you to do – ask yourself these questions when you find advice on the Internet and on television about life, love, relationships, and marriage:

1. Do those who have written or spoken the advice have the proper academic credentials?

2. Do the advice givers have personal and credible evidence to support the notion that they are “experts” in their field of “advice?”

3. When you carefully read or listen to the advice being given, ask yourself this question – is the advice overly hyped?

4. Ask yourself this question – is their advice “beyond belief?”

5. Is the advice you are reading on the Internet from a source you can trust?

To find out more about what you can do to determine if the advice you hear is fact or fiction, just read the entire article, Marriage Advice - Fact or Fiction?

The Divorce Rate Myth Debunked

Let’s face it, a lot of couples contemplating marriage get discouraged by the oft-quoted statistic that 50% of marriages in America end in divorce. Who could blame them? Who wants to get into relationships where there is the expectation of failure half the time! But the truth is, the suggestion that there is a 50% divorce rate in American is simply wrong, wrong, wrong! We would like to de-bunk that myth, that fiction, that urban legend!

First of all, the divorce rate is not nearly as high it is often reported in the popular media. We need to change that perception because it can be a discouraging message to those contemplating marriage.

Read more to find out the real truth about the divorce rate